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STATUS QUOtes — 20220830

Jeff

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

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“The stars we are given. The constellations we make.” — Rebecca Solnit

“I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days, before you’ve actually left them.” — Andy Bernard

“It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.” — Francis Bacon

“I learned the first night that IHOP’s not the place to order fish.” — Larry David

 

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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 — 20200824

Jeff

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

 

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“All the universe laboured to bring us together. The rest is up to us.” — Beau Taplin

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.” — Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they’re all the same.” — Kurt Cobain

“If you torture statistics long enough, they’ll eventually confess the truth.” — Alan K. Simpson

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200605

Jeff

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“When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.” — Frank Yerby

“Inside the word ’emergency’ is ’emerge’; from an emergency new things come forth. The old certainties are crumbling fast, but danger and possibility are sisters.” — Rebecca Solnit

“There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.” — Arthur Helps

“When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.” — Angelina Jolie

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200326

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“The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.” — Anton Yelchin

“We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.” — Edgar Fawcett

“He ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.” — Rebecca Solnitt

“Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!” — Anne Tyler

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200106

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“An honor is not diminished for being shared.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“The most accurate term for happiness…is the one Aristotle used: eudaimonia, which translates not directly to ‘happiness’ but to ‘human flourishing.'” — Shawn Achor

“There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.” — Rebecca Solnit

“Acting is not important in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.” — Spencer Tracy

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160930

Jeff

“Even a fish can escape being caught, if it keeps its mouth shut.” — Confucius

“He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity’s sun rise.” — William Blake

“A book is a heart that beats in the chest of another.” — Rebecca Solnit

“The New York Times is read by the people who run the country; the Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country; the National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country.” — Robert J. Woodhead

 

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