Joseph Campbell

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

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“It doesn’t do any good to talk if nobody’s listening.” — Phil Donahue

“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” — Richard Feynman

“The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.” — Joseph Campbell

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.” — Charleton Heston

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STATUS QUOtes — 20230523

Jeff

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

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“People forget facts, but they remember stories.” — Joseph Campbell

“We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them.” — Ram Dass

“Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity as well.” — Bruce D. Perry

“Give them pleasure the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” — Alfred Hitchcock

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20230124

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

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“Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.” — Horace

“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.” — Joseph Campbell

“We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.” — Robert Brault

“The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I’m looking for a forty-hour day.” — Nicholas Murray Butler

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20220205

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

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“There are wounds that, instead of opening our skin, open our eyes.” — Pablo Neruda

“You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.” — Joseph Campbell

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” — Bible (Hebrews 13:2 )

“A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.” — John Tudor

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210515

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

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“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.” — John G. Riefenbaker

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.” — Dr. Robert Jarvik

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” — Joseph Campbell

“A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.” — Humphrey Bogart

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210216

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

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“You can’t ride with the cops and root for the robbers.” — Representative Jamie Raskin quoting American jurist Antonin Scalia

“The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse.” — Isabel Wilkerson

“You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it.” — Joseph Campbell

“I don’t see why religion and science can’t get along. What’s wrong with counting our blessings with a computer?” — Robert Orben

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20170210

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“When given a choice…take both!” — Dr. Peter Diamandis

“We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” — Joseph Campbell

“Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.” — Yasmin Mogahed

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.” — Alfred Hitchcock

 

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