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Thu 21 Apr 2022

Reluctant

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Random quote of the day:

“Parapsychological events are fairly common, much more frequent than people realize. It is only the reluctance to tell others about psychic occurrences that makes them seem rare. And the more highly trained are the most reluctant to share.”

—Brian L. Weiss, Many Lives, Many Masters

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Wed 20 Apr 2022

Capable

Posted by PJ under equality, imagination, quote of the day
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“Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.”

—Katherine Johnson, Reaching for the Moon

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Tue 19 Apr 2022

Talking

Posted by PJ under drama, quote of the day, talking, truth, tv
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“When the media investigates a phenomenon like psi, or for that matter privatizing Social Security or forming a public health care system, they reach out to sources with diametrically opposed positions. That makes for higher drama, more colorful quotes, and, so the thinking goes, better radio or television. What it doesn’t bring us any closer to is the truth.”

—Steve Volk, Fringe-ology

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Mon 18 Apr 2022

Pendulum

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Random quote of the day:

“Time is a pendulum. Not a river. More akin to what goes around comes around.”

―Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo

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Thu 14 Apr 2022

Conspiracy

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“The conspiracy theory of society is just a version of…theism, of a belief in gods whose whims and wills rule everything. It comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?” His place is then filled by various powerful men and groups—sinister pressure groups, who are to be blamed for having planned the great depression and all the evils from which we suffer.”

—Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations

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Wed 13 Apr 2022

Gods

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“For since it is not possible to speak rightly about the Gods without the Gods, much less can any one perform works which are of an equal dignity with divinity, and obtain the foreknowledge of every thing without [the inspiring influence of] the Gods.”

—Iamblichus, On the Mysteries (tr. Thomas Taylor)

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Tue 12 Apr 2022

Discretion

Posted by PJ under art, liminality, quote of the day, subtle
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Random quote of the day:

“Art has impulses of discretion. It cannot say things directly.”

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

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Fri 8 Apr 2022

Ambition

Posted by PJ under ambition, quote of the day, wishing, wonder
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“If you can walk away for days, weeks, or years at a time, it is not an ambition, it’s a wish. Wishes feel good and rarely come true. Ambition, on the other hand, fuels your days and refuses to be ignored. It challenges your sense of self and fulfills your sense of wonder.”

—Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader