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#841 (permalink) |
Super Moderator
Location: essex ma
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the mighty seek to secure their position with blood (police), with cunning (fashion), with magic (pomp).
walter benjamin, arcades project, [e5a, 7]
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite |
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Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan) |
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#845 (permalink) |
I change
Location: USA
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"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen."
---- Robert Jarvik (1946-) U.S. physician and inventor - designed the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in 1972.
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I change
Location: USA
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"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope."
---- Winston Churchill (1874-1965) English politician - Prime Minister (1940-45,1951-55); rallied British people during World War II; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1953).
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#855 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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The mind should be at peace but the heart debauches it perpetually.
~Marie de Sévigné
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan) |
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#856 (permalink) |
I change
Location: USA
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Supple Cow, good one. Thanks.
................................. The recipe for well-being, then, requires neither positive nor negative thinking alone, but a mix of ample optimism to provide hope, a dash of pessimism to prevent complacency, and enough realism to discriminate those things we can control from those we cannot. David G. Myers Psychologist and educator
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#857 (permalink) |
Beware the Mad Irish
Location: Wish I was on the N17...
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There is always something somewhere that needs to be done. Work is never ending. Grab a shovel and get busy. When you think your finished you have just stopped looking. I salute those who toil in any profession and those who recognize that the relentless pursuit of excellence in toil on a daily basis is the foundation for success in whatever you choose to endeavor. Work. Don't let them tell you that it can't be done.
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#858 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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Naïveté is not a failure to understand that things go wrong when your heart and mind are not in the right place; it is the belief that if they are in the right place, things won't go wrong anyway.
Supple Cow
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan) |
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#859 (permalink) |
Super Moderator
Location: essex ma
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everything is always the same except composition and as the composition is different and always going to be different everything is not the same.
gertrude stein
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite |
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#865 (permalink) |
I change
Location: USA
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"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."
---- Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) U.S. naturalist and author - won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Wandering Through Winter (1965).
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#866 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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The living language is like a cow-path: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay.
~E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan) |
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#868 (permalink) |
I change
Location: USA
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One element of maturity is the realization that we don’t get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
Hugh Prather
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#869 (permalink) |
Life's short, gotta hurry...
Location: land of pit vipers
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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
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Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool. |
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#870 (permalink) |
pinche vato
Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton
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Two thoughts about aging...
"If you are young and are not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old and are not conservative, then you don't have a brain." Winston Churchill Also... "When I was younger, I admired smart people. Now that I'm older, I admire kind people." ...unable to find who said this, sorry
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Living is easy with eyes closed. |
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#871 (permalink) |
Americow, the Beautiful
Location: Washington, D.C.
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I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
~Antonio Porchia, writer (1886-1968)
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." (Michael Jordan) |
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#873 (permalink) |
Super Moderator
Location: essex ma
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after having held up the departure of a whole army because of a childish whim to make the trip from paris to brest in a litter, she now had to put her mind to more important things.
alejo carpentier, "the kingdom of this world" fine fellini quote, art.......
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite |
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#875 (permalink) |
Life's short, gotta hurry...
Location: land of pit vipers
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
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#876 (permalink) |
I change
Location: USA
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"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."
---- Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960) U.S. poet - essayist, short story writer and teacher; her poetry collections include Blue Smoke (1919) and Burning Bush (1922); wrote novel Family Style (1937).
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#879 (permalink) |
Life's short, gotta hurry...
Location: land of pit vipers
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I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Christopher Reeve
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Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool. |
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