Thu 20 Jun 2013
Posted by PJ under dogs, heaven, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.”
—Mark Twain, letter to W. D. Howells, April 2, 1899
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Wed 19 Jun 2013
Posted by PJ under heroes, ideas, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“I don’t have heroes. I believe in heroic ideas, because the creators of all those ideas are very human. If you make heroes out of people you’ll invariably end up disappointed.”
—Sherman Alexie, interview, BigThink.com/ShermanAlexie
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Tue 18 Jun 2013
Posted by PJ under names, quote of the day, reality, roses
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Random quote of the day:
“Yesterday’s rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
—Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
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Mon 17 Jun 2013
Posted by PJ under cats, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.”
—Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
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Fri 14 Jun 2013
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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Thu 13 Jun 2013
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
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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Tue 11 Jun 2013
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
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Mon 10 Jun 2013
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
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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