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STATUS QUOtes — 20230401

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.” — Evan Esar

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.” — Terry Pratchett

“I didn’t lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth.” — Matt Groening

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230330

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.” — Max Ehrmann

“The same principle leads us to neglect a person of merit that induces us to admire a fool [ed].” — Jean de La Bruyère

“Before beginning a hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.” — A.A. Milne

“The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.” — Erma Bombeck

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230328

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.” — Bertie Charles Forbes

“Because behind this expansion [of knowledge ] there is a great asymmetry: what is knowable but still unknown will always be larger than what we already know, meaning there are more possibilities waiting to be discovered than have already been discovered. This asymmetry in knowledge is reason to be optimistic, because it means there are no limits to our improvement.” — Kevin Kelly

“In my heart I had the thorn of a passion. I managed to take it off one day. I no longer feel my heart.” — Antonio Machado

“The concept of best-friendship is responsible for the worst birthday party of my life. I was 11 and hosting a sleepover. We were all having fun, eating pizza and comparing our Beanie Babies—until someone referred to someone else as her best friend. Suddenly, we were at war.” — Jaya Saxena

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230326

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The purpose of life is to experience things for which you will later experience nostalgia.” — FedSpeak via Twitter

“What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.” — David S. Baxter

“Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.” — Wendell Phillips

“Delaware: A state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.” — John James Ingalls

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230324

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.” — George Box

“Life does not begin on Friday night and end Monday morning.” — MJ DeMarco

“Mom had always taught all of us to examine decisions by reversibility–that is, to hedge our bets. When you couldn’t decide between two things, she suggested you choose the one that allowed you to change course if necessary. Not the road less traveled but the road with the exit ramp.” — Will Schwalbe

“The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875 … In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.” — Bill DeWitt

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230322

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Virtue consists not in avoiding wrong-doing, but in having no want for it.” — Democritus

“There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.” — Robert Heinlein

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.” — Georgia O’Keeffe

“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” — Earle Hitchner

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230320

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“A thing is important if anyone think it important.” — William James

“He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice, and never ceases nibbling.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater

“We are very, very small. But we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.” — Steven Hawking

“My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don’t bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.” — Noel Coward

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230318

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Good enough never is.” — Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies (and Bakeries)

“Can’t repeat the past? We do it every day. We build a life, or try to, of pleasures and duties that will become routine, so that every day will be the same day, or nearly so, ‘the day of our life,’ Randall Jarrell called it.'” — Adam Gopnik

“There are four sentences that lead to wisdom: I don’t know. I need help. I’m sorry. I was wrong.” — Louise Penny

“Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.” — Ron Miriello

 

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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 — 20230316

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Politeness is the flower of humanity.” — Joseph Joubert

“People who do good work often think that whatever they’re working on is no good. Others see what they’ve done and think it’s wonderful, but the creator sees nothing but flaws. This pattern is no coincidence: worry made the work good.” — Paul Graham

“Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends; it is with them that I take those walks in the country at the end of the day.” — Philip Roth

“After scolding one’s cat, one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.” — Charlotte Gray

 

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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 — 20230314

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.” — Thomas Fuller

“The person who gets 1 shot needs everything to go right. The person who gets 1000 shots is going to score at some point. Find a way to play the game that ensures you get a lot of shots.” — James Clear

“Leave good evidence of yourself. Do good work.” — Cal Newport

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren [Buffett] reads – and how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.” — Charles T. Munger

 

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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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