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STATUS QUOtes — 20231219

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Efficiency is intelligent laziness.” — David Dunham

“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended ‘moment of living hope.'” — Anne Carson

“Nothing is large or small, heavy or light, except as to ourselves. Man is the measure of all things, as an ancient Greek philosopher asserted; and man has inferred, discovered, and named matter.” — Max Müller

“Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.” — Alan Jay Lerner

 

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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 — 20200416

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.” — Gail Sheehy

“Some conversations are not about what they’re about.” — Anne Carson

“A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.” — Ray Bradbury

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20191117

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Desire is no light thing.” — Anne Carson

“Your job isn’t to know the how, it’s to know the what and to be open to discovering, and receiving, the how.” — Jen Sincero

“We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.” — Augustus William Hare

“Ladies and gentlemen, after what I’ve been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.” — David Letterman

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190920

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Coincidence is the word we use when we can’t see the levers and pulleys.” — Emma Bull

“Our danger is not too few, but too many options … to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.” — Sir Richard Livingstone

“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?” — Anne Carson

“When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me $85; that’s why in the Navy, the captain goes down with the ship.” — Dick Gregory

 

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