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STATUS QUOtes — 20240909

Jeff

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

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“How do I know I don’t need what I want. I don’t have it.” — Byron Katie

“Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don’t know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don’t.” — Ray Dalio

“We are kept from our goals not by obstacles but by a clear path to lesser goals.” — Robert Brault

“I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.” — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240907

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If you don’t want flour, do not get into the mill.” — Irish Proverb

“Every event that a man would. master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there’s a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.” — Alice Hoffman

“Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.” — Tim McMahon

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240905

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.” — B.C. Forbes

“To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.” — Elie Wiesel

“What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.” — Louise Nevelson

“Inside me there’s a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.” — Bob Thaves

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20240903

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.” — Charles Caleb Colton

“The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.” — Aage Niels Bohr (son of Niels Bohr)

“We must believe in free will… we have no choice.” — Isaac Singer

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240830

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.” — Ernest Hemingway

“You don’t have to be the most educated or the most experienced to start the journey, but the most willing to out-learn and out-work everyone around you.” — Farshad Asl

“The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.” — Carol Gilligan

“Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.” — Doug Larson

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240901

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.” — Menander

“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.” — Theodore Dreiser

“It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.” — Mary O’Connor

 “You know,some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help [ed].” — Bill Watterson

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240828

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“T’ain’t worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.” — Sarah Orne Jewett

“Among the mind’s powers is one that comes of itself to many children and artists. It need not be lost, to the end of his days, by anyone who has ever had it. This is the power of taking delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.” — Charles E Montague, 1867

“The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.” — Brian Greene

“Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.” — Matt Groening

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240825

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“It doesn’t do any good to talk if nobody’s listening.” — Phil Donahue

“You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” — Richard Feynman

“The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.” — Joseph Campbell

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.” — Charleton Heston

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20240823

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Crooked wood burns quite as well as straight.” — German Proverb

“A young man asked Mozart how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, ‘You’re far too young to write a symphony.’ The young man then said, ‘What? You were writing symphonies when you were 10, and I’m 21.’ Mozart smiled and replied, ‘Yes, but I didn’t go around asking people how to do it.'” — via Sahil Bloom

“Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.” — Ernest Holmen

“If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I’d be making money in a very weird way.” — Mitch Hedberg

 

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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 — 20240821

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

“If a little knowledge is dangerous – where is the person who has so much as to be out of danger?” — Thomas Huxley

“It is always dullest before the yawn.” — Bob Phillips

 

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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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