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STATUS QUOtes — 20210620

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

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“Superstition is the poetry of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.” — Rose Franken

“In 1969 I published a small book on Humility; it was a pioneering work which has not, to my knowledge, been superseded.” — Francis Pakenham (Lord Longford

 

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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 — 20191010

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“Certain minds must be allowed their peculiarities.” — Goethe

“I know a thousand things louder than a soldier’s gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.” — Andrea Gibson

“Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn’t depend on formal schooling.” — Alfred North Whitehead

“If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn’t like me, I’ve got to get out.” — Marlon Brando

 

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Quotes from Goethe, Andrea Gibson, Alfred North Whitehead and Marlon Brando that are poignant, witty, humorous, inspirational or thought provoking

STATUS QUOtes — 20171220

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“If you don’t have a dream, there is no way to make one come true.” — Steven Tyler

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.” — Victor Hugo

“The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.” — Al Capp

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170415

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“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.” — Goethe

“Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer.” — Josh Billings

“You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it’s a different story.” — Maureen Johnson, The Last Little Blue Envelope

“If living conditions don’t stop improving in this country, we’re going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.” — Russell P. Askue

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20170323

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“If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.” — Oriental Proverb

“In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.” — Billy Joel

“On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.” — Lenny Bruce

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160922

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“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.” — Joan Lunden

“Destroying a rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” — E. O. Wilson

“To have more, you must first be more.” — Goethe

“As through this world I’ve wandered I’ve seen lots of funny men; some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.” — Woody Guthrie

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160505

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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” — Goethe

“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” — Brené Brown

“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.” — Willa Cather

“You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” — Stephen C. Hogan

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20151108

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“Doubt grows with knowledge.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.” — Daniel Coleman

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.” — Pliny the Younger

“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.” — Cary Grant

 

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