Mark Twain

STATUS QUOtes — 20240420

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Necessity is the mother of ‘taking chances.'” — Mark Twain

“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.” — Anton Chekhov

“It is by the audacity of their grammatical mistakes that we recognize the great writers.” — Henry de Montherlant

 

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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 — 20240121

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are.” — Frank Sinatra

“Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It’s very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.” — Jane Elliot

“Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.” — Helen Barker Parker

“Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death.” — 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 — 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 — 20230614

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.” — Mark Twain

“We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.” — Charles Dudley Warner

“You have deep within you an urge to completion, or what is often referred to as a ‘compulsion to closure.’ This means that you actually feel happier and more powerful when you start and complete a task of any kind.” — Brian Tracy

“I’d ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor.” — Kami Garcia

 

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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 — 20230214

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“How it is we have so much information, but know so little?” — Noam Chomsky

“As a kid you just accept different worlds with different rules, even between some houses and others.” — Barbara Kingsolver

“Never try to impress someone because if you do, they’ll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life [ed].” — W.C. Fields

“I was born lazy; I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago.” — 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.”
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230106

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.” — Latin Proverb

“After watching birds year after year returning to their nesting grounds…’Frankie why do you love those birds so much?’ Luis would ask him each year when they returned. And Frankie would always say the same thing: ‘Because I can count on them.'” — Kathryn Fitzmaurice

“I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.” — Dr. Seuss

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.” — 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 — 20220822

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The first requirement in taking a step in the right direction is to take a step in some direction.” — Robert Brault

“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.” — Mark Twain

“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.” — Winston Churchill

“If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.” — G.K. Chesterton

 

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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 — 20220418

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Make yourself necessary to somebody.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide – skill loves the light.” — Daniel C. Gelman

“There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.” — Mark Twain

“I’m in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn’t even know I exist – and worse… she can prove it.” — Arj Barker

 

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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 — 20211120

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“First time is a favor, second time is a rule.” — Chinese proverb

“The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one’s absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.” — Stephen Covey

“The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.” — Henry Miller

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” — 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 — 20210810

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Everything has a price, but not all prices appear on labels.” — Morgan Housel

“Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.” — Lewis Thomas

“Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.” — Baltasar Gracian

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine… (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.” — 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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