Quotes
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Music Language
Music is the one universal language. It’s your best friend when the chips are down, and it’s better than any energy drink when you’re feeling it. Dave Smalley Continue reading
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Tragedy And Comedy
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. Jeannette Walls Continue reading
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Backpack
So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life. Henry Rollins Continue reading
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Needle In A Haystack
It’s a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don’t find it. If you don’t give a damn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack. P. G. Wodehouse Continue reading
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When It’s Time
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” ~ Jimi Hendrix Continue reading
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Enjoy The Day
“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.” ~ Horace Continue reading
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No such thing
“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.” ~ Henry Rollins Continue reading
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Time Capsules
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. Alfred Hitchcock Continue reading
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No man has the right to dictate …..
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. -Ansel Adams, American Photographer Continue reading
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Success Is Learned
Success isn’t something that just happens – success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. -Sparky Anderson Continue reading
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So long as the universe had a beginning …..
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? ~Stephen Hawking Continue reading
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Conquering Some Fear
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Food Security
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. ~Bill Gates Continue reading
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Food is as important as energy….
Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together. ~Louise Fresco Continue reading
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Making Excuses
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin Continue reading
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Order & Chaos
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. -Kerry Thomley Continue reading
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Bookish Homeless People
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They’re bookish homeless people. -Lisa Yuskavage Continue reading
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Poor People And The Homeless
You can spend the money on new housing for the poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. -Jello Biafra Continue reading
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The present and the past …..
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn’t be in flashback. ~Alain Resnais Continue reading
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Walk Beside Me …..
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus Continue reading
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Fill Your Life Up With Ideas
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin” Continue reading
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Uninteresting Life
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. ~Mark Twain Continue reading
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Conquering Fear
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays (1950) “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish” Continue reading
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The world we see ……
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” ~William James Continue reading
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“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.” ~Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books Continue reading
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No one has ever died, from an over exposure to education. ~Robert M. Hensel
Robert M. Hensel, Spanish Poet-Writer Continue reading
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Clear Labeling For Genetically Modified Food
Europe believes that providing clear labeling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by vast majority of states in the U.S. -Zac Goldsmith Continue reading
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Rose Bushes
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
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Problems of the world…..
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist Continue reading
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Beautiful People
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not… Continue reading
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The morning cup of coffee …..
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Continue reading
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People spend to much time finding other people to blame …..
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. -J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer – 1954 – Continue reading
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Life is …..
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary. ~Albert Einstein Continue reading
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There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author Continue reading
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If you can’t tell a spoon from a ladle, then you’re fat! ~Demitri Martin
Demitri Martin, American Comedian Continue reading
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“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” ~Jim Morrison
“Readers recommend: songs about control” by Peter Kimpton, http://www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015. Continue reading
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Movies are not novels ….
Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost failure. It can’t be done. ~Paul Auster Continue reading
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“It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.” ~Russell Means
Russell Means, B. November 10, 1939 – D. October 22, 2012 Continue reading
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Book Reading
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Bookstores
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“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin Continue reading
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In art as in love, instinct is enough. ~ Anatole France
Anatole France – French Novelist Continue reading
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“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ~ Muhammad Ali
Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010 Continue reading
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax Continue reading
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press Continue reading
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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. ~ Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm, English Essayist ~ 1872 – 1956 Continue reading
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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ~ Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Continue reading
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“You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.” ~ Mooji
Mooji, Teacher ~ Born: January 29, 1954 Continue reading
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Traveling Is Like Flirting
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Novelist Continue reading
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All the world Began With A Yes
“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began.… Continue reading
A Pondering Mind 