Charlotte Bronte

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Jeff

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

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“The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something to say.” — Michael P. Hart

Referring to Artificial Intelligence – “We’re on the doorstep of a new age — don’t be a bystander.” — Jim VandeHei

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour. If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?” — Charlotte Brontë

“Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.” — Barbara Kingsolver

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.” — Chinese Proverb

“It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.” — Charlotte Brontë

“Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.” — Smiley Blanton

“The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice.” — Doug Larson

 



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Quote about the situation in Ukraine: “If the United Nations has any purpose, it is to prevent war, it is to condemn war, to stop war. That is our job here today. It is the job you were sent here to do – not just by your capitals, but by all of humanity.” — Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations

 

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Jeff

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“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” — Charlotte Bronte

“The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.” — Daniel Webster

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” — George Halas

“I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.” — Ashleigh Brilliant

 

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