A Pondering Mind
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Cornelia Funke ~ If I Was A Book
If I was book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all kinds of different kids. -Cornelia Funke, German Author Continue reading
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Six Word Story
A head filled with scatterbrain ideas. Continue reading
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Six Word Story
A toast to the human madness. Continue reading
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Learning Quotation
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928 Continue reading
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Quote: Ignorance – W. E. B. Du Bois
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” – W. E. B. Du Bois Continue reading
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Poverty ~ Matt Damon
“You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.” – Matt Damon Continue reading
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Democracy ~ Howard Zinn
“Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning Continue reading
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Thinking
Is there a difference between a trial run vs a real one? Continue reading
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Reading Quote: Maya Angelou
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way around, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. -Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Quote: Democritus – Empty Space
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. ~Democritus Continue reading
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Quote: Nicholas Sparks – A Great Paradox
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Quote: Hermann Hesse, To Hold Our Tongues
“To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all Continue reading
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Quote: Pete Seeger, Small Villages
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. ~Pete Seeger Continue reading
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Franz Kafka Quotation: Darkness
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~Franz Kafka Continue reading
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Quote: Hermann Hesse
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. ~Hermann Hesse Continue reading
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Poem: Walt Whitman, Miracles
“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day Continue reading
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Thoughts
“Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.” – William James Continue reading
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Liberty ~ George Orwell
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell Continue reading
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Time Is Never Wasted ~ Thomas Pynchon
“Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.” – Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.211, Penguin Continue reading
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
“You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Bored Solitude ~ Jack Kerouac
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Comforts
couch book black coffee ac is on the comforts of home Continue reading
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Just Saying
I know that I dislike some people but I don’t hate anyone as it is not in my DNA Disliking a person or group of people is not as harsh as hating Hate hating and/or hatred to me are too demeaning and have no use for them Continue reading
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Beauty In Words
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Edgar Allan Poe Continue reading
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Disordered Minds
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Continue reading
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John Coltrane Quote
“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.” – John Coltrane Continue reading
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Leonardo da Vinci Quote
Learning never exhausts the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci Continue reading
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Poetry Quote ~ Novalis
Bio: Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism. Continue reading
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J. L. Austin Quote
“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words…. Statements are made, words or sentences are used.” – J. L. Austin Continue reading
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Iris Murdoch Quote
“Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.” – Iris Murdoch Continue reading
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Yiddish Proverb ~ Laughter
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb Continue reading
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Leo Anthony Gallagher Quote
I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked “brightness” but it don’t work, does it? ~Leo Anthony Gallagher Continue reading
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Oxford Comma
An Oxford comma walks into a bar. Orders a gin, and tonic. ~@NeinQuarterly (Nein. Eric Jarosinski, editor), 2013 July 30th tweet Continue reading
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David M. Bader Quote
Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated? ~David M. Bader – Zen Judaism Continue reading
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Hubert Reeves Quote
Astrophysicist – Born: July 13, 1932 Continue reading
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Jamie Lynn Morris Poem
Like butterflies in Spring Poetry awakens the Spirit, stirs the imagination and explores the possibilities with each stroke of its rhythmic wings. ~Jamie Lynn Morris Continue reading
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E. B. White – Library Quote
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times Continue reading
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Lao Tzu Quote
The soul has no secret that the behavior does not reveal. ~Lao Tzu Continue reading
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Attitude Matters
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Helen Hayes Quote
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. ~Helen Hayes Continue reading
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George Jean Nathan “Viewpoint”
In a rapidly ascending balloon were two men. One watched the earth getting farther and farther away. One watched the stars getting nearer and nearer. ~George Jean Nathan, “Viewpoint,” A Book Without a Title, 1918 Continue reading
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Joni Mitchell Quote
“When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make their mark.” – Joni Mitchell Continue reading
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B.B. King Quote
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. ~B.B. King Continue reading
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Edith Zittler Quote
The best way to stop smoking is to just stop — no ifs, ands or butts.* ~Edith Zittler ——————- *That’s how I did it, [cold turkey] and don’t miss it. Continue reading
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Dale Carnegie Quote
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. ~Dale Carnegie Continue reading
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William Faulkner Quote
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” – William Faulkner Continue reading
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What Is Enough
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. ~William Blake, Proverbs of Hell Continue reading
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Beauty Quote – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression is boring. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Maya Angelou Quote
All great achievements require time. -Maya Angelou Continue reading
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Cup Of Coffee – Charles Bukowski
“I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.” – Charles Bukowski Continue reading
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Poetry Quote
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti Continue reading
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African Proverb
Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped. ~African Proverb Continue reading
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Great Books
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. ~John Green Continue reading
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Life Worth Living
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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A Man Who Lies ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love Continue reading
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Education Quote ~ Socrates
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. ~Socrates Continue reading
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Seasons
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubinstein Continue reading
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