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STATUS QUOtes — 20231213

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” — Mary Oliver

“The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.” — William Arthur Ward

“People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.” — John Wesley

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes–ah, that is where the art resides! ” — Arthur Schnabel

 

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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 — 20231211

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“You don’t have power if you surrender all your principles — you have office.” — ​Ron Todd

“We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there is a randomness to life that is beyond analysis.” — ​William Eisner

“Facts do not ‘speak for themselves.’ They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.” — ​Thomas Sowell

“Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.” — ​Paul Frank Baer

 

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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 — 20231208

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.” — ​John Ford

“Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you’re good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of arrogant,like me, what comes naturally, you don’t see as a special skill. It’s just you. It’s what you’ve always done.” — ​Stephen Jay Gould

“A successful marriage depends upon two things: to find the right person and to be the right person.” — V​ikrant Parsai

“Look how often the unexpected happens yet we still never expect it.” — ​Ashleigh Brilliant

 

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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 — 20231206

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.” — Latin Proverb

“People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let’s all give each other a pass, shall we?” — David Rakoff

“Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.” — Izaak Walton

“This typxwritxr is xxcxllxnt xxcxpt for onx kxy. Thx 25 othxr lxttxrs work finx; but just onx goof-off lousxs up thx wholx job.” — William D. Xllis (Ellis?)

 

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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 — 20231130

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.” — ​Hugh Prather

“We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.” — ​Francois de la Rochefoucauld

“Because that is when you love somebody – when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.” — ​Philip Roth

“This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.” — ​Winston Churchill

 

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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 — 20231128

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“We need a good dose of irritation, frustration and discontent to propel us forward.” — Rutger Bregman

“Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything.” — Immanuel Kant

“We must not think, ‘Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest on this knowledge.’ The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light.” — Ellen G. White

“His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.” — Mark Twain

 

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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 — 20231126

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.” — ​Rumi

“There’s a fine line between heroic persistence and foolish stubbornness. Sometimes the best kind of grit is gritting our teeth and turning around.” — ​Adam M. Grant

“Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.” — ​George Santayana

“Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there’s nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.” — ​George Horace Lorimer

 

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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 — 20231121

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“He who dreams not creates not.” — Louis Sullivan

“The heart doesn’t care about bloodlines or birth parents. It just seems to know how to love in the same way our lungs know how to breathe.” — Melissa Foster

“I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.” — Paul Newman

“I think that people are built the way that they’re built. There’s that Kate Moss quote that’s like ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’ and I can name a lot of things that taste better than skinny feels: bread, potatoes … a Philly cheese steak and fries.” — Jennifer Lawrence

 

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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 — 20231119

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.” — Leslie Jeanne Sahler

“Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter – we’re tribal by nature. Tribes today aren’t the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn’t just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It’s sports fans, it’s communities, it’s geography.” — Peter Guber

“I’m tired of a lifetime of springing forward and falling back. Can’t we just do something once and stay there?” — George Takei

“At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.” — Marshall Lumsden

 

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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 — 20231117

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.” — Robert Quillen

“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries [ed].” — Scott Adams

“Once you have flown, your eyes will ever gaze skyward. For once you have been there … There you will go again!” — Leonardo Da Vinci

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” — Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corp. 1957

 

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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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