Quotable quotes

[cityboy-stl]

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”

― Kahlil Gibran

 

[Rand]

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[Alistair]

 

[Alistair]

"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want."

Joseph Wood Krutch, The Twelve Seasons

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

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Lately the opposite is true in the US

 

[pornoboy]

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[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”

― Bernice Johnson Reagon

 

[Thad1527]

"Live! Live like the Internet doesn't exist, don't censor yourself to the unrealistic standards of people who aren't even perfect themselves."
- Lizzo

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

"Live! Live like the Internet doesn't exist, don't censor yourself to the unrealistic standards of people who aren't even perfect themselves."
- Lizzo

She the fat-shamer of the Bananenbar?

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“Despite its lack of mechanical perfections, humanity, as stumbling and awkward as it is, is far superior to the machine. It always has been and always will be, and this conviction must never be surrendered. But surrender these days is incremental, seems painless, and comes so quietly that warnings are drowned in silence.”

― Mark Helprin

 

[Thad1527]

 

[Thad1527]

"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
- Shirley Chisholm, first Black woman elected to the US Congress in 1968

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“I'd stand near the fires, looking at people's faces, just soaking up the presence of other human beings. It was never enough, but it was better than nothing.”

― Jason Schmidt, A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me: A Memoir

 

[Rand]

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