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Quotes of the day from previous years:
My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one. |
~ Stephen Spender ~ |
What is precious is never to forget The delight of the blood drawn from ancient springs Breaking through rocks in worlds before our earth; Never to deny its pleasure in the simple morning light, Nor its grave evening demand for love; Never to allow gradually the traffic to smother With noise and fog the flowering of the spirit. |
~ Stephen Spender ~ |
The miracle is this The more we share... The more We have |
~ Leonard Nimoy ~ |
Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough. |
~ Michel de Montaigne ~ |
Great abuses in the world are begotten, or, to speak more boldly, all the abuses of the world are begotten, by our being taught to be afraid of professing our ignorance, and that we are bound to accept all things we are not able to refute: we speak of all things by precepts and decisions. The style at Rome was that even that which a witness deposed to having seen with his own eyes, and what a judge determined with his most certain knowledge, was couched in this form of speaking: “it seems to me.” They make me hate things that are likely, when they would impose them upon me as infallible. |
~ Michel de Montaigne ~ |
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs. |
~ Michel de Montaigne ~ |
I want to first of all, thank you. I know that this has been hard. I know that you face a lot. I know that you are worried about your family — but this is part of your destiny. And, hopefully, this portion of your destiny will lead to a better — a better, a better Michael Cohen, a better Donald Trump, a better United States of America and a better world. And I mean that from the depths of my heart. When we’re dancing with the angels, the question will be asked: "In 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact?" Did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing? … Come on, now — we can do more than one thing. And we have got to get back to normal. |
~ Elijah Cummings ~ |
Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do. |
~ Michel de Montaigne ~ |
Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way? |
~ Michel de Montaigne ~ |
The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride. |
~ Volodymyr Zelenskyy ~ |
The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. |
~ Michel de Montaigne ~ |
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. |
~ Stephen Spender ~ |
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ~ Michel de Montaigne
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? ~ Michel de Montaigne
A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid. ~ Michel de Montaigne
And now you know — the rest of the story. ~ Paul Harvey (born 4 September 1918) (died 28 February 2009)
What America has succeeded in creating is not an economy impervious to shocks, but merely one which enables their consequences to be postponed to a later date. ~ Peter Schiff
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