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2020: the year of not knowing which end is up.
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2020: the year the world got turned on its head
“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intuitive And Rational Mind
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~ Albert Einstein
“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” ~Aldous Huxley
Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell
Don’t you hate people who say they’re not complaining and then complain? ~Edna Ferber
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. ~Bertrand Russell
Remembering A Civil Rights Icon – John Lewis, May you Rest In Peace
“You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”
~ John Lewis
Population Growth
It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world it for us right now.
~ David Attenborough
I love being an introvert…
“I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”
~ Audrey Hepburn
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Is it just me, wondering if this country has lost its collective soul, and if so, can the damage be repaired?
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me. ~ G. W. F. Hegel
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~ Bertrand Russell
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ~John F. Kennedy
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. ~William James
Mankind is composed of two sorts of men – those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy. ~Jose Marti
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs
Instant coffee: is just old beans that have been cremated. ~ Jennifer Saunders
Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ~Jean Kerr
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ~Anton Chekhov
The sands of time are quicksands … so much can sink into them without a trace. ~Margaret Atwood
Men Marry Women …..
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”
~ Albert Einstein
The Void
The entire cast of know-it-all, know nothing so-called leaders of the free world, are all aboard an all expenses gladfully paid for, at the taxpayers expense, a non-returnable flight, on the spaceship emptiness. It is heading straight on into the void, and will never be heard from again.
“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s lnability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal
“I’ll tell you what freedom means to me: no fear.” ~Nina Simone
“The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed…This is a different world.” ~ Gus O’Donnell, Baron O’Donnell
Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly. ~ Nora Roberts
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. ~ John Lubbock
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. ~ Stephen Hawking
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~ Albert Einstein
“There is no vaccine against stupidity.” ~Albert Einstein
Half of being smart is knowing how dumb you are. ~Solomon Short
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If age is only a number, then I don’t feel as old as what my age is. And that’s what keeps me going.
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. ~William James
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ~ Bertrand Russell
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. ~ Marcus Aurelius
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ~Abraham Lincoln
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ~ Oscar Wilde
“How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?” ~ John Stuart Mill
“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” ~ Mark Twain
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don’t we send recipe books to the starving? ~ Andrea Dworkin
Noble And Beautiful
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
~ John Lennon
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t. ~ Albert Camus
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. ~ Bertrand Russell
The Human Spirit
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
~ William Ellery Channing
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ~ Abraham Lincoln
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Now that the Coronavirus Covid-19 has showed up in the White House, is all I have to say is, “What goes around, comes around.”
The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception. ~ George Boole
Two Kinds Of Truth
There are two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know. ~ Bertrand Russell
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. ~George Berkeley
Common Sense
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
Life Is The Fire …..
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternty.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. ~Albert Einstein
Look For 3 Things In A Person
“Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity.
If they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two.”
~ Warren Buffett
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May 9th, it is snowing, windy and 34 F degrees, with a windchill of 29 F. Yikes!
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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To keep my sanity intact, I tend to not pay much attention to what number 45 has to say. I’m pretty sure most of you would know who I’m talking about.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. ~ Voltaire
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I’m really liking the cleaner air, as it makes the walks more enjoyable.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. ~ Francis Bacon
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~ Xunzi
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
The Truth Is Simple
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: ‘Don’t decide what you have to decide.’ That’s not evasion, it’s wisdom.
Mario Cuomo
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. ~Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. ~Thomas Aquinas
Cosmic Ordering
I’m into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It’s all about thinking lovely things that you would like in life, and feeling good about them before the manifest, so that by the time they do, you don’t want them because you’re on to your next desire.
Julia Sawalha
Life Is Hard
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
Sydney J. Harris
“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“If our founding fathers were alive today, they’d roll over in their graves.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Human Nature
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
~ Dale Carnegie
“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Vote for the man who promises least, he’ll be the least disappointing. ~ Bernard Baruch
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ~ Mark Twain
Music is my emotional tranquilizers. ~Maria Herliana
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You can’t get nothing from nothing. There!
Nothing will work unless you do. ~ Maya Anjelou
“I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.” ~ Nelson Mandela
People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. ~ Stephen Hawking
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health. ~A. J. Materi
Social Responsibility
In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
Robert McKee
Encouraging News
The other day, I did a phone visit with the Endocrinologist. He was very happy with the average morning glucose results, which was 117 average for the last 30 days. My weight is between 136-140, and was glad to hear that to. With that said, I no longer have to see him, and he wished me well. So glad to keep the type 2 diabetes under control.
Day by Day
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.
C. S. Lewis
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When the coffee is good, then I’m good to go.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. ~Victor Hugo
What To Make Of It
Taking my second walk of the early evening, I did not see any other people, nor an auto passing by me in either direction. It was pure silence, and I was thinking, this how it must be on a no-mans island in the middle of the ocean. And then, the silence could be deafening, or golden. I guess it depends how one looks at it.
Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s headline. ~ Walter Winchell
Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. ~Robert McKee
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~Bernard Williams
Practice Any Art ….
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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“Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School” by Emily Thomas, http://www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014.
Hate pollutes the mind. ~ William Shakespeare
Separation Of Church And State
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister’s daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
Tori Amos
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? ~Satchel Paige
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The coronavirus has turned the world upside down, inside out, and will probably never be the same.
