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"It ain't possible to live unless you're crossing somebody's line."
-Lafayette, True Blood |
There's a storm-tossed ship tonight out on the water
There's a soul that sails alone out on the blue There's a dreamer with her eye upon the heavens They're all looking for a way to make it through You can trust the moon to move the mighty ocean You can trust the sun to shine upon the land You take the little that you know and you do the best you can And you see the rest with the simple faith of man (partial lyrics) Bill Staines |
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.(f)
Marya Mannes American, Journalist Quotes |
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
Florynce R. Kennedy |
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Awesome line of thought and process! ~D. |
"All we need to know about truth is encapsulated in the way the truth predicate solves a simple syntactic problem."
- Max Kölbel (2001) "Two Dogmas of Davidsonian Semantics." In, The Journal of Philosophy, XCVIII (XII), 613-635. New Hall/ University of Cambridge. |
"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."
Len Santos |
"If one advances confidently in the direction of her dreams, and endeavors to live the life which she has imagined, she will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. " -Thoreau
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"The future is not just a series of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, and then realized next in activity."(f) ~ adapted from John Schaar |
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
~~Albert Einstein ~~ |
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”
---Colin Wilson |
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~John Ciardi
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine |
Bloom where you are planted.
This has been a motto of mine for a long time. :) |
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing." ~Thomas Huxley |
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." ~Mortimer Adler |
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily." ~Thomas Szasz |
"You don't have to be a bundle of contradictions to be a woman, she said. But we all agreed it helps." ~ Brian Andreas, "Storypeople"
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If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."
Rob Brezsny |
"Makeovers are like crack to me." ~ Kurt, "Glee"
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There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox(f) |
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