Great & Meaningful Quotes
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Paco Dennis
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squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill.
Winston Churchill.
officerripley
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Every disaster movie starts with a scientist being ignored.
~~Neil deGrasse Tyson
~~Neil deGrasse Tyson
officerripley
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"No nation, even the most heroically hopeful, is immune to the forces of history."
~~from The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks by Joshua Cooper Ramo
~~from The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks by Joshua Cooper Ramo
officerripley
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"What is history if not a mass grave filled with the bodies of followers of Special Men? Maybe averageness and blandness is what we need right now. Anonymity. Follow the words, not the person."
~~from Anthem by Noah Hawley
~~from Anthem by Noah Hawley
squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
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- Arkansas, and also Florida
officerripley
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Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
~~Martin Luther King, Jr.
~~Martin Luther King, Jr.
officerripley
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"The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane."
~~ Eric Fromm
~~ Eric Fromm
MarkD
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I always liked this quote from Tom Robbins' Still Life with Woodpecker:
“When the mystery of the connection goes, love goes. It’s that simple. This suggests that it isn’t love that is so important to us but the mystery itself. The love connection may be merely a device to put us in contact with the mystery, and we long for love to last so that the ecstacy of being near the mystery will last. It is contrary to the nature of mystery to stand still. Yet it’s always there, somewhere, a world on the other side of the mirror (or the Camel pack), a promise in the next pair of eyes that smile at us. We glimpse it when we stand still.
The romance of new love, the romance of solitude, the romance of objecthood, the romance of ancient pyramids and distant stars are means of making contact with the mystery. When it comes to perpetuating it, however, I got no advice. But I can and will remind you of two of the most important facts I know:
“When the mystery of the connection goes, love goes. It’s that simple. This suggests that it isn’t love that is so important to us but the mystery itself. The love connection may be merely a device to put us in contact with the mystery, and we long for love to last so that the ecstacy of being near the mystery will last. It is contrary to the nature of mystery to stand still. Yet it’s always there, somewhere, a world on the other side of the mirror (or the Camel pack), a promise in the next pair of eyes that smile at us. We glimpse it when we stand still.
The romance of new love, the romance of solitude, the romance of objecthood, the romance of ancient pyramids and distant stars are means of making contact with the mystery. When it comes to perpetuating it, however, I got no advice. But I can and will remind you of two of the most important facts I know:
- Everything is part of it.
- It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
Paco Dennis
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- Mid-Missouri
"There is no way to define a reality that is independent of the way we choose to look at it."