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Wed 29 Jun 2022

Prism

Posted by PJ under empathy, perception, quote of the day, reality, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.”

—Sterling K. Brown, Variety, March 1, 2016

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Mon 27 Jun 2022

Right

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

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between lightning-bug and lightning.”

—Mark Twain, “The Art of Authorship”

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Thu 23 Jun 2022

Truth

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

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There’s a punishment for it, and it’s usually crucifixion.”

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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Wed 22 Jun 2022

Shine

Posted by PJ under failure, quote of the day, shine
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Random quote of the day:

“The most significant successes come from letting your light shine, embracing failure, and getting good at being wrong.”

—Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader

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Tue 21 Jun 2022

Sadness

Posted by PJ under anxiety, lessons learned, quote of the day, sorrow, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“So you must not be frightened…if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any agitation, any pain, any melancholy, since you really do not know what these states are working upon you?”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (tr. M. D. Herter Norton)

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Mon 20 Jun 2022

Postman

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

“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.”

—Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

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Thu 16 Jun 2022

Growing

Posted by PJ under growth, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“It’s vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it’s to do the inner work they stimulate.”

—Wally (Famous) Amos, Man With No Name: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade by Wally Amos with Camilla Denton

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Tue 14 Jun 2022

Dark

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

“Great art is always flanked by its dark sisters, blasphemy and pornography.”

—Geoffrey Hartman, Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays 1958-1970

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Mon 13 Jun 2022

Rockets

Posted by PJ under physics, psi, quote of the day, superstition
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Random quote of the day:

“If the research indicates some small psi effect today, and rockets take off according to the laws of Newtonian physics today, if we simply admit this telepathy research into the cannon—won’t a rocket still take off tomorrow?….We won’t necessarily have to rewrite the laws of physics, but more likely amend them. Isn’t this usual skeptical argument, that acknowledging telepathy will force us to rewrite the laws of physics, simply a kind of reverse superstition? A kind of hysteria?”

—Steve Volk, Fringe-ology

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Thu 9 Jun 2022

Kenya

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

“When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, ‘Richard, what do you see?’ I said, ‘I see all types of people.’ The voice said, ‘But do you see any n******?’ I said, ‘No.’ It said, ‘Do you know why? ‘Cause there aren’t any.’”

—Richard Pryor, Live at the Sunset Strip

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