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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If you don’t want flour, do not get into the mill.” — Irish Proverb

“Every event that a man would. master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there’s a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.” — Alice Hoffman

“Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.” — Tim McMahon

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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