“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.” — Pope Pius II

“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” — Pearl S. Buck

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness…. When experience is not retained, as among less advanced civilizations, infancy is perpetual [ed].” — George Santayana

“What shall we call our son so he does not get bullied at school? … We shall call him Englebert Humperdink… yes, that’ll work.” — Eddie Izzard

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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