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STATUS QUOtes — 20230417

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

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“A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.” — Saul Bellow

“Adversity is like the period of the rain … cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.” — Walter Scott

“If you cannot be open minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.” — Bryant McGill

“I love a good nap. Sometimes it’s the only thing getting me out of bed in the morning.” — George Costanza, Seinfeld

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220624

Jeff

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

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“A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.” — Saul Bellow

“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.” — Tom Hiddleston

“Never apologize for not letting people cross your boundaries.” — Dr. Dennis Walker

“I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.” — Erma Bombeck

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210310

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.” — Thomas Hobbes

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates

“The truth is, we’ve not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult, the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.” — Saul Bellow

“You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.” — Jonathan Haidt

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200519

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“Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.” — Carl Sagan

“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” — Winston Churchill

“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” — Saul Bellow

“Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.” — George Lundberg

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200213

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“A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.” — Saul Bellow

“Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.” — Anne Bronte

“To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.” — Alain de Botton

“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.” — Erma Bombeck

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20191112

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“Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.” — Alan Perlis

“I would never make a lion, I knew that; but I might pick up a small gain here and there in the attempt.” — Saul Bellow

“Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.” — Arthur Helps

“It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.” — Dave Barry

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190812

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“Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.” — French Proverb

“With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.” — Amedeo Modigliani, Italian Jewish painter and sculptor

“People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don’t see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life.” — Saul Bellow

“Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.” — Bennett Cerf

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160712

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“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.” — William Shakespeare

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” — Saul Bellow

“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

“Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.” — Fran Lebowitz

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150901

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“I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing the entirety of man’s knowledge. I use it to look up pictures of cats and get in arguments with strangers.” — Unknown from the Internet

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” — Calvin Coolidge

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” — Saul Bellow

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!” — C.J. Cherryh

 

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