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Mon 3 Aug 2020

Open

Posted by PJ under curiosity, listening, openness, possibilities, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I really want to keep my mind open to all possibilities. If I make up my mind in advance what I believe about something … I stop listening. We all stop listening once you’ve made up your mind … I want to be curious. I want to maintain my curiosity about what the answers to the question might be. And I want to hold out for the possibility that someone will surprise me.”

—Gwen Ifill, interview, Television Academy Foundation, Oct. 20, 2011

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 10 Apr 2015

Live

Posted by PJ under curiosity, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

—Eleanor Roosevelt, preface, Autobiography

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 7 Jan 2013

And in conclusion

Posted by PJ under curiosity, ideology, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day: 

 

“If you are really enquiring you cannot start with a conclusion, and all ideologies are a conclusion.”

—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,” The Urgency of Change

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Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 2 Apr 2012

Early paparazzi

Posted by PJ under curiosity, gossip, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

—Marie Curie to a reporter, quoted in Living Adventures in Science by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas

(Funny story: As she was entering a vacation home in the south of France, the reporter mistook her for a housemaid and offered her money to dish the dirt on the Curies. Madame Curie apparently dressed quite plainly.)

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 17 Jan 2012

The rewards of research

Posted by PJ under curiosity, research, writing
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Random quote of the day:


“Research is formalized curiosity.  It is poking and prying with a purpose.  It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.”

—Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On the Road

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 7 Sep 2011

The usual suspects

Posted by PJ under cats, curiosity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”

—Steven Wright

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 1 Dec 2010

Please protect all black kitties

Posted by PJ under cats, curiosity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but I’ll bet she had a really interesting life up until then.”

—Charles de Lint, Spirits in the Wires

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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