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STATUS QUOtes — 20200828

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“It’s amazing why we keep loving this country, and this country does not love us back.” — Doc Rivers

“That’s the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. ‘Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?'” — Mary Oliver

“One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.” — Josiah Gilbert Holland

“If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist’s office would be full of luminous ideas.” — Mason Cooley

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200827

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone’s saviour.” — Keigo Higashino

“Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn’t run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.” — Allison Pearson

“I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.” — Mike Todd

“I put my phone on airplane mode and it didn’t fly.” — Ashley Purdy

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200826

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.” — Maela Moore

“People, sensing my belief, wanted some of that belief for themselves. Belief, I decided. Belief is irresistible. Sometimes.” — Phil Knight

“But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” — Khaled Hosseini

“He was the kind of guy that if you were drowning 50 feet off shore, he’d throw you a 30 foot rope. Then the next day his friends and colleagues would proclaim that he had met you more than half-way.” — (paraphrased/adapted from) Mort Sahl

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200825

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“It will not always be summer, build barns.” — Hesiod

“We’re out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.” — Anne Lamott

“In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.” — Corrie ten Boom

“It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.” — Pete Rose

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200824

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“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 — 20200823

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Not for ourselves alone are we born.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it’s often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.” — Pico Iyer

“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.” — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200822

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Simply put: Whenever we have conflicting desires, being good gives us permission to be a little bit bad.” — Kelly McGonigal

“You have the brushes, you have the colors, paint the paradise and go inside.” — Nikos Kazantzakis

“It’s not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.” — Steven Wright

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200821

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.” — Nigerian Proverb

“Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.” — Mike Quigley

“If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.” — Ambrose Bierce

“There was one who thought he was above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.” — Elbert Hubbard

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200820

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.” — D.W. Winnicott

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” — Albert Schweitzer

“You think too much.That is your trouble. Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything.” — Alexis Zorba from the film Zorba the Greek

“Chaos Theory is a new theory invented by scientists panicked by the thought that the public were beginning to understand the old ones.” — Mike Barfield

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200819

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.” — Bill Vaughan

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” — C.S. Lewis

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.” — Charles Bukowski

“Henry Ford’s reaction to a consultant who questioned why he paid $50,000 a year to someone who spent most of his time with his feet on his desk.’Because a few years ago that man came up with something that saved me $2,000,000,’ he replied. ‘And when he had that idea his feet were exactly where they are now.’” — Rory Sutherland

 
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