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STATUS QUOtes — 20220901

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

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“Among the rude, the wise man goes unnoticed.” — Sophocles

“Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey, they don’t need to, it’s not for them.” — Joubert Botha

“Everything in the world cooks down to two. Either-or, if-then, yes-no, night-day, good-bad. You all believe in twos so much I wonder if any of you can count to three.” — Marlon James

“Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.” — Josh Billings

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20201224

Jeff

“To be amused by what you read —
that is the great spring of happy quotations.”
— C. E. Montague —

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“If you throw in your towel, someone may pick it up and use it better than you.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.” — John Locke

“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.” — Saint Augustine

“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.” — Josh Billings

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200301

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“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” — Jacob M. Braude

“The Law of Win/Win says, let’s not do it your way or my way; let’s do it the best way.” — Greg Anderson

“This is what makes me happy: …Any music-free restaurant … A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer … An evening in bed with a good book. … A good night’s sleep … As you can see, it doesn’t take much to make me happy.” — Art Buchwald

“It is true that wealth won’t make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain’t anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.” — Josh Billings

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20191107

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“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.” — Josh Billings

“The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment’s thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.” — Albert J. Nock

“Heroism is endurance for one moment more.” — George F. Kennan

“‘I need to talk to you’ is the one sentence that has the power to make you remember every bad thing you’ve ever done in your life.” — Aaron Karo

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190111

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“Character is not made in crisis – it’s only exhibited.” — Robert Freeman

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” — Albert Einstein

“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.” — Josh Billings

“A person who burns all of their bridges better be a real good swimmer! [ed]” — Unknown

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180403

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“Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.” — André Gide

“The day-to-day exhausted me!” — Ludwig van Beethoven

“Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.” — Josh Billings

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20171230

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“Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Some folks are wise and some otherwise.” — Josh Billings

 
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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 — 20160323

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“Expectations are resentments under construction.” — Anne Lamott

“Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak — and speak in such a way that people will remember it.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.” — Mother Teresa

“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.” — Josh Billings

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160220

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“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” — Josh Billings

“Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.” — Edna Ferber

“A lot of people seeking new beginnings have never finished with the past.” — Byron Pulsifer

“My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too.” — Mia Hamm

 

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