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STATUS QUOtes — 20211023

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

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“Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.” — Max Brooks

“Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.” — Plutarch

“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I’m in a wonderful position: I’m unknown, I’m underrated, and there’s nowhere to go but up.” — Pierre S. DuPont IV

 

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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 — 20180624

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“It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp.” ― Plutarch

“The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.” — Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, Théorie analytique des probabilités

“I enjoyed serving the dinner more than eating the dinner.” — Tara Westover

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” — Carl Jung

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180526

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“Anything you fully do is an alone journey.” — Natalie Goldberg

“Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.” — Mother Teresa

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” — Plutarch

“In Scotland we have a verdict ‘not proven;’ that means ‘not guilty, but don’t do it again.'” — Andrew Brodie

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180318

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“Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.” — Galileo Galilei

“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.” — Plutarch

“Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’ and then do it.” — Duane Michals

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.” — Dave Barry

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20171029

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“By the work one knows the workman.” — Jean de La Fontaine

“There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.” — John Irving

“It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration — nay, it is a very easy matter — but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.” — Plutarch

“The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.” — Roseanne Barr

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20171022

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“The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.” — Plutarch

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.” — Sylvia Plath

“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.” — Kin Hubbard

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170922

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“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.” — Benjamin Whichcote

“All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.” — Plutarch

“The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.” — Abraham Maslow

“Don’t worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.” — Winston Churchill

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20161218

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“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.” — Plutarch

“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion-and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.” — Ram Dass

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

“I tried being normal once. It was the worst five minutes of my life.” — Georgia Cates, Shallow

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160319

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“Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.” — Plutarch

“If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values, they’re hobbies.” — Jon Stewart

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.” — John Updike

“A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn’t started yet.” — George Burns

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160216

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“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture your heart.” — Ancient Indian Proverb

“If you go, go in Peace. It makes the flowers sweeter along the path.” — Mike Dolan

“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.” — Plutarch

“1) Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.” — Douglas Adams

 

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