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STATUS QUOtes — 20220412

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.” — Malcolm Gladwell

“Don’t try to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life. You are going to be a very different person in two or three years, and that person will have his own ideas. All you can really figure out is what you want to do right now.” — William Deresiewicz

“The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, ‘Are we being good ancestors?'” — Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

“I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.” — Joan Walsh Anglund

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20201201

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most.” — Aesop

“Research suggests a paradoxical truth about innovation: good ideas are more likely to emerge in environments that contain a certain amount of noise and error.” — Steven Johnson

“Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired.” — Jonathan Swift

“A plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman’s sink and a brilliant sculpture.” — Bob Kail

 

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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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Thousands and thousands of quotes delivered since 2011!

 
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