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STATUS QUOtes — 20230302

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

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“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.” — Baltasar Gracian

“In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.” — Martin Buber

“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where the is going.” — Napoleon Hill

“I think the bravest thing I’ve ever done is misjudge how much shopping I want to buy and still not go back to get a basket.” — Stuart Laws

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210810

Jeff

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

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“Everything has a price, but not all prices appear on labels.” — Morgan Housel

“Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.” — Lewis Thomas

“Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.” — Baltasar Gracian

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine… (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.” — Mark Twain

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200722

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

 

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“In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.” — Alice Walker

“The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.” — Baltasar Gracian

“If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper’ll do it…all you need is a beat.” — Artie Shaw

“I needed a password eight characters long, so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” — Nick Helm

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200621

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“Experience is never at bargain price.” — Alice B. Toklas

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.” — William Blake

“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.” — Baltasar Gracian

“Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren’t called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)” — Alan Coren

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200616

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“I don’t look for bliss, just contentment.” — Alison Krauss

“‘No’ and ‘Yes’ are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.” — Baltasar Gracian

“If you are a gifted person, it doesn’t mean that you gained something. It means you have something to give back.” — Karl Jung

“The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20191103

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“Good impulses spring from a happy readiness of spirit.” — Baltasar Gracian

“Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.” — Carl Sandburg

“With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public – you feel safe.” — Elizabeth Bowen

“Oh, we were doomed from the start. I’m an Earth sign. She’s a Water sign. Together, we made mud.” — Rodney Dangerfield

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180313

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“Peace is a verb.” — Kirby Jock

“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.” — Baltasar Gracián

“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.” — Leo Tolstoy

“The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard!” — Alfred E. Neuman

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170208

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“You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.” — Baltasar Gracian

“I don’t want just words. If that is all you have for me, you better go.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Never position a rock near a hard place.” — Rohan Candappa

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20161204

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“If you want to stand for something, you can’t stand for everything.” — Unknown

“Be careful to leave your children well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. [ed]” — Epictetus

“The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard.” — Baltasar Gracián

“To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.” — Mark Twain

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160813

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“Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.” — Scandinavian Proverb

“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.” — Baltasar Gracian

“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?” — Marcel Marceau

“You can’t put off being young until you retire.” — Philip Larkin

 

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