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STATUS QUOtes — 20181126

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“Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.” — Anne Lamott

“If you extol reason, then what matters is the integrity of the thoughts, not the personalities of the thinkers.” — Steven Pinker

“Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger; you might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.” — Maureen Dowd, American columnist & author

“If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.” — Gilbert Gottfried

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20181025

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“We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.” — Saint Augustine

“Dreams are the most curious asides and soliloquies of the soul. When a man recollects his dream, it is like meeting the ghost of himself. Dreams often surprise us into the strangest self-knowledge. Dreaming is the truest confessional, and often the sharpest penance.” — Alexander Smith

“In 1974, it cost $1,442 (in 2011 dollars) to fly from New York to Los Angeles; today it can be done for less than $300.” — Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“If your identical twin got plastic surgery, it would be hard not to feel a little insulted.” — FrankBurlyPI – via Reddit r/ShowerThoughts

 

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180925

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“Cherish the hope that lies beneath the snow.” — Melody Beattie

“As we care about more of humanity, we’re apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen.” — Steven Pinker

“No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.” — Samuel Johnson

“There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.” — Perrussel’s Law

 

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180814

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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one. [ed]” — Marcus Aurelius

“There can be no question of which was the greatest era for culture; the answer has to be today, until it is superseded by tomorrow.” — Steven Pinker

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.” — Mortimer Adler

“Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?” — Billy Connolly

 

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180714

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“Saying one’s prayers isn’t exactly the same thing as praying.” — L.M. Montgomery

“Every single day, someone’s coming for your job. Someone’s coming for your greatness. If you’re the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you’re not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.” – J. J. Watt

“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.” — Steven Pinker

“Me and my wife met at a castanet class… we clicked.” — Stewart Francis

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180614

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“Direction, not intention determines your destination.” — Andy Stanley

“But it’s in the nature of progress that it erases its tracks, and its champions fixate on the remaining injustices and forget how far we have come.” — Steven Pinker

“Everything takes longer than you expect — even when you expect it to take longer than you expect.” — Ashleigh Brilliant

“Old age is like learning a new profession; and not one of your own choosing.” — Jacques Barzun

 
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