Abraham Lincoln

STATUS QUOtes — 20240305

Jeff

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

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“When a friend asks, there is no tomorrow.” — Italian proverb

“The best gift you are ever going to give someone: the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.” — Hannah Brencher

“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.” — Charles Dudley Warner

“It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.” — Abraham Lincoln

 

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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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STATUS QUOtes — 20230610

Jeff

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

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“The emotional tail wags the rational dog.” — Jonathan Haidt

“Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream;
Highlows pass as patent leathers;
Jackdaws strut in peacock’s feathers.”
~ W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan – HMS Pinafore, ACT II ~

“You can repeal all past history, but you cannot repeal human nature.” — Abraham Lincoln

“After you have children, the economic law reverses to Demand and Supply.” — Marcelene Cox

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20221104

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“He has the right to criticize, who has the heart to help.” — Abraham Lincoln

“There’s this peace that comes with knowing you have a person in the world who would do anything for you, that you would do anything for.” — Taylor Jenkins Reid

“It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.” — David H. Souter

“The English contribution to world cuisine – the chip.” — John Cleese

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220213

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.” — Jean Giono

“Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.” — Michael Pollan

“The fact is, I don’t like to hear cut‑and‑dried sermons. No — when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees!” — Abraham Lincoln

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20211219

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“I will prepare, and some day my chance will come.” — Abraham Lincoln

“But it was home. And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.” — Charles Dickens

“Authenticity matters little, though– our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility.” — David P. Mikkelson

“The Pilgrims didn’t have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we’d never have anybody walking on the moon.” — Doug Rader

 

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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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STATUS QUOtes — 20210719

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.” — Erica Jong

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” — Abraham Lincoln

“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.” — Adam Elenbaas

“I’ve given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can’t divorce a book.” — Gloria Swanson

 

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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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STATUS QUOtes — 20201204

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Nothing beautiful can be summarized.” — Paul Valery

“The world will give you that once in a while, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.” — Sue Monk Kidd

“Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.” — William Hazlitt

“I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: ‘If it wasn’t for the honor of the thing, I’d rather walk.'” — Abraham Lincoln

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200730

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.” — T.S. Eliot

“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?” — Robert Frost

“I’ve got my doubts, there’s no doubt about it.” — Alan Brazil

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200217

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.” — Proverb

“Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”  —  Abraham Lincoln

“There is no better measure of your values than how you spend your time.” — Scott Belsky

“Here’s some advice: At a job interview, tell them you’re willing to give 110 percent. Unless the job is a statistician.” — Adam Gropman

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190923

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The net of the sleeper [still] catches fish.” — Greek proverb

“Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.” — Robert Brault

“Autumn repays the earth the leaves which summer lent it.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.” — Abraham Lincoln

 

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