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Tue 12 Sep 2023

Ignorance

Posted by PJ under ignorance, knowledge, quote of the day, racism, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“The greatest evil in our country today is not racism, but ignorance. I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than to believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

–Septima Poinsette Clark, Annual Christmas message⁠, 1975

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Mon 11 Sep 2023

Bud

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

“Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful: patience is everything!”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to A Young Poet

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Thu 7 Sep 2023

Garbo

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

“What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.”

—Kenneth Tynan, Curtains

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Wed 6 Sep 2023

Body

Posted by PJ under body, hearts, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall. And the body alone listens to the passing bee; the wave breaking; the dog barking, far away barking and barking.

—Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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Thu 31 Aug 2023

Doubt

Posted by PJ under certainty, doubt, ignorance, questions and answers, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

“The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty—some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

—Richard P. Feynman, The Value of Science

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Tue 29 Aug 2023

Wisdom

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sacredness, wisdom
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Random quote of the day:

“Wisdom sits in places.”

—Apache proverb

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Wed 16 Aug 2023

Demagogue

Posted by PJ under demagogue, intelligence, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.”

—Harry Zohn, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

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Wed 9 Aug 2023

Sand

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

“For every moment that passes, there is another that might have been—moments we lose through the misfortune of circumstance that slip like sand through our fingers and scatter to the past.”

—Neil Spring, Ghost Hunters

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Tue 8 Aug 2023

Mask

Posted by PJ under identity, persona, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Underneath this mask, another mask. I will never be finished carrying all these faces.”

—Claude Cahun, quoted in The Guardian, 12 March 2017

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Thu 3 Aug 2023

Shadow

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the shadow, transition, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“There is a shadow on the wall before me. It is my own; the hour is late. I write in a hotel room at midnight. Tomorrow the shadow on the wall will be that of another.

—Loren Eisely, The Night Country

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