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Wed 13 Jul 2022

Heart

Posted by PJ under american, hearts, quote of the day, right and wrong
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Random quote of the day:

“I’m a big believer that if America, if this country, hasn’t broken your heart then you don’t love her enough. Because there’s things that are savagely wrong in this country.”

—Cory Booker, “Booker: Things Are ‘Savagely Wrong’ in America” by David Rutz, The Washington Free Beacon, August 3, 2018

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Fri 1 Jul 2022

Preferable

Posted by PJ under duty, quote of the day, right and wrong
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Random quote of the day:

“One’s duty is to do what one knows to be fair and good—“preferable.” That is easy? No, for even what one knows to be preferable, one does with difficulty.”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 9 Dec 2019

Right

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Random quote of the day:

“It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.”

—Mark Twain, “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar,” Following the Equator

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 19 Nov 2018

Time

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reason, right and wrong, time
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Random quote of the day:

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

—Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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Thu 3 May 2012

Caught in the act

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Random quote of the day:

 

“We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.”

—Mark Twain, “A Double-Barrelled Detective Story”

 

 

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Tue 24 May 2011

Steadfastly wrong

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Random quote of the day:

 

“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.”

—Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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