Matt Ridley

STATUS QUOtes — 20220323

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“There can be little liking where there is no likeness.” — Aesop

“It is the person who is unaware of what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him.” — Mychal Thompson

“Nature is the length of the rectangle, nurture the width. There can be no rectangle without both.” — Matt Ridley

“No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn’t work anyway.” — Price Pritchett

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210111

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.” — Mitch Albom

“Gutenberg made printed books affordable, which kicked off an increase in literacy, which created a market for spectacles, which led to work on lenses that in turn resulted in the invention of microscopes and telescopes, which unleashed the discovery that the earth went round the sun.” — Matt Ridley

“The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.” — Marcel Proust

“Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.” — Charles de Gaulle

 

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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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