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Fri 29 Jul 2022

Self-importance

Posted by PJ under ego, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The biggest barrier to writing well and doing anything well is self-importance; it’s blinding. Self-importance blinds people to life.”

—Jim Harrison, interview, Grand Rapids Magazine, May 1998

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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Thu 28 Jul 2022

Dead

Posted by PJ under intelligence, listening, mindfulness, quote of the day, the dead
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Random quote of the day:

“Those unmindful when they hear,
for all they make of their intelligence,
may be regarded as the walking dead.”

—Heraclitus, Fragment 3 (tr. Brooke Haxton)

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 25 Jul 2022

Pearl

Posted by PJ under aging, quote of the day, youth
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Random quote of the day:

“When you’re young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.”

—Pearl Bailey, The Raw Pearl

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Wed 20 Jul 2022

Goodness

Posted by PJ under good, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Terrible is the seductive power of goodness.”

–Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (tr. Alistair Beaton)

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Fri 15 Jul 2022

Troubles

Posted by PJ under peace, quote of the day, trouble, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I can’t get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard, 1889 (tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Thu 14 Jul 2022

Soul

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, soul
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Random quote of the day:

“My advice is, do not try to inhabit another’s soul. You have your own.”

—Jim Harrison, “A Part of My History,” Songs of Unreason

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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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Mon 11 Jul 2022

Roots

Posted by PJ under ancestors, freedom, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Break your chains and you are free. Cut your roots and you are dead.”

—French proverb

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Thu 7 Jul 2022

Cab

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, racism
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Random quote of the day:

“I don’t have to really be in the ‘60s to connect to it. Every time I try to hail a cab in New York, and they pass me and pick up the white person [who’s] farther back than I am, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don’t want to take you to Harlem or Brooklyn. I grew up with that.”

—Queen Latifah, NPR, October 17, 2009

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Wed 6 Jul 2022

Apparitions

Posted by PJ under apparitions, objective, quote of the day, reality, subjective, ufo
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Random quote of the day:

“Apparitions…compel us to ask ourselves what we mean by reality, a very old and knotty philosophical problem. In particular, they ask us to decide whether our encounters with apparitions are subjective or objective—that is, whether a UFO, for example, is somehow a product of our minds or whether it actually exists out there in the world. If it is objectively real, then we have to decide further whether it is physically real or only apparently so; whether, that is, it is material or immaterial (though visible).”

—Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality

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