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Fri 14 Jun 2013

Dangerous games

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

“Politics are almost as exciting as war, and—quite as dangerous…[I]n war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.”

—Sir Winston Churchill, from a conversation with Harold Begbie, cited in Master Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co.

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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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Thu 13 Jun 2013

J’accuse! Émile Zola, Anatole France, what does it matter?

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

“When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it. Give references? Why should you? Either your readers know where you have taken the passage and the precaution is needless, or they do not know and you humiliate them.”

—Anatole France, Anatole France Himself: A Boswellian Record by His Secretary, Jean-Jacques Brousson, tr. John Pollock

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Wed 12 Jun 2013

Fleeting embrace

Posted by PJ under certainty, lovers, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“What more can one be sure of than that which one holds in one’s arms, at the moment one holds it in one’s arms.”

—Colette, letter to Marguerite Moreno, 1925

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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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Tue 11 Jun 2013

Roll the dice

Posted by PJ under chance, love, lovers, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“A lover doesn’t figure the odds.”

—Jalaluddin Rumi, “A Circle Around the Zero,” tr. Coleman Barks

You can read the entire poem here:  http://yhoo.it/18osXMA

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Mon 10 Jun 2013

F**ck you, Dr. Wayne Dyer

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

“We do not attract in our life that which we want—we attract that which we are.”

—Dr. Wayne Dyer, Excuses Begone

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Thu 6 Jun 2013

Fragrance

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

“Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”

—attributed to Mark Twain

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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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Wed 5 Jun 2013

You are the world

Posted by PJ under courage and fear, darkness, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“If fear predominates, then you can’t see what is actually going on around you, because fear is darkness, and in darkness you can see absolutely nothing. If you realize that, then you can see the world actually as it is, then you can see yourself actually as who you are. Because you are the world, and the world is you; they are not two separate entities.”

—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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Tue 4 Jun 2013

Here on Earth

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

“Perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves…and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.”

—Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

(Thanks to sartorias for this quote.)

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Mon 3 Jun 2013

She’s so fey

Posted by PJ under fairies, meme
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I’ve done this one before, but it bears repeating. Or maybe not.

Get your own fairy name from the fairy name generator!My fairy name is Meadow Flamewitch
She lights fires in the heart.
She lives in fields where wild flowers and poppies grow.
She can only be seen in the enchanted moment between sleep and waking.
She wears a skirt made of red petals and has fiery orange butterfly wings.
Get your own fairy name from the fairy name generator!

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Mon 3 Jun 2013

Half empty

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

“Pessimism never won a battle; pessimism never made a hero; pessimism is death.”

—Rear Admiral Albert S. Barker, “Cincinnati Society Dinner,” New York Times, February 23, 1901 (often attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower)

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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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