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Mon 10 Mar 2025

Chaos

Posted by PJ under chaos, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Ancient Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things start anew.”

—Jodi Picoult, The Book of Two Ways

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 27 Jan 2025

Language

Posted by PJ under language, quote of the day, talking, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

—Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 20 Jan 2025

Search

Posted by PJ under america, quote of the day, seeking
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Random quote of the day:

“We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.”

—Waldo Frank, Our America

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 2 Jan 2025

Cherry

Posted by PJ under haiku, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“under cherry blossoms’ shade
even those whom we don’t know
are not strangers”

—Issa Kobayashi, 1819

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 19 Dec 2024

Nature

Posted by PJ under nature, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“When we are in a place where the manmade constructs of the world seem as though they have crumbled, or time feels like it no longer exists, that feeling of separation fades away. We are reminded, in the deepest, rawest parts of our being that we are nature. It is in and of us. We are not superior or inferior, separate or removed; our breathing, breaking, ageing, bleeding, making and dying are the things of this earth. We are made up of the materials we see in the places around us, and we cannot undo the blood and bone that forms us.”

—Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 17 Dec 2024

Absurdity

Posted by PJ under absurdity, opinion, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.”

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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Tue 10 Dec 2024

Crater

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the human condition
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Random quote of the day:

“We are all drawn toward the same craters of the spirit—to know what we are and what we are for, to know our purpose, to seek grace.”

—Saul Bellow, Dangling Man

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Thu 5 Dec 2024

Rags

Posted by PJ under place, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

—Katherine Mansfield, letter to Ida Baker, 7 March 1922

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 3 Dec 2024

Towel

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, treasure, women
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Random quote of the day:

“A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else. They become a pretty little convenience, like a guest towel.”

—John D. Macdonald, The Deep Blue Good-by

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 25 Nov 2024

Shutter

Posted by PJ under art, photography, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If you look into the camera and you see something you recognize, don’t click the shutter.”

—Hiro (Yasuhiro Wakabayashi), quoted in the New York Times “The Lives They Lived” obituary 12/24/21

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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