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Tue 4 Apr 2023

Change

Posted by PJ under censorship, change, conversations, quote of the day, stories, words
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Random quote of the day:

“The key is to change the person. And we change people through conversation, not through censorship. That’s why I want people to understand what the words we use—and the stories we tell—are really about.

—Jay-Z, Decoded

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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Wed 31 Aug 2022

Intersecting

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

“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”

—Rebecca West, “There Is No Conversation” (1935 version), The Harsh Voice

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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Wed 3 Mar 2021

Gold

Posted by PJ under conversations, quote of the day, words
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Random quote of the day:

“Words are the small change of thought. Certain talkers pay us in ten-sou bits. Others, on the other hand, give out only gold pieces.”

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard, October 1888 (tr. Bogan/Roget)

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 25 Jun 2015

Soledad

Posted by PJ under conversations, genius, quote of the day, solitude
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Random quote of the day:

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

—Sir Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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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 20 Aug 2012

Oh really?

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

 

“Debate is masculine; conversation is feminine.”

—Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

 

 


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 14 May 2012

O sole mio!

Posted by PJ under conversations, music, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

 

“I think to talk well a rare gift—quite as rare as singing; and yet you expect every one to be able to talk, and very few to be able to sing.”

—Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair

 

 


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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