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Post by andydp on Jan 26, 2022 1:47:08 GMT
If you’re expecting a daily quote, I’m busy in San Diego
Snowing at home with a Nor’Easter in the mix. Over 160 breweries the area. You do the math.
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Post by Bact PhD on Jan 26, 2022 3:21:25 GMT
Enjoy the brews and the warmth!!
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Post by andydp on Feb 2, 2022 14:00:45 GMT
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
Juvenal
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Post by andydp on Feb 3, 2022 13:50:39 GMT
The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listenRumi Here's another from Rumi that just showed up on my FB feed: 
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Post by andydp on Feb 4, 2022 15:15:50 GMT
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
Francis Bacon
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Post by andydp on Feb 5, 2022 17:45:58 GMT
How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
Jane Austen
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Post by andydp on Feb 6, 2022 16:42:43 GMT
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial
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Post by andydp on Feb 7, 2022 18:50:08 GMT
I refused to take no for an answer.
Bessie Coleman
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Post by andydp on Feb 8, 2022 14:09:44 GMT
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
Tycho Brahe
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Post by andydp on Feb 9, 2022 13:49:00 GMT
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
Saadi
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Post by andydp on Feb 10, 2022 18:34:34 GMT
Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
Torquato Tasso
I came across this since it seems to be the guiding desire of a certain political party:
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.
Giacomo Leopardi
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Post by andydp on Feb 11, 2022 13:15:26 GMT
Silence is the best response to a fool.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Post by andydp on Feb 12, 2022 15:35:30 GMT
Got a couple today:
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of order.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Post by andydp on Feb 13, 2022 14:14:42 GMT
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Post by goldenvalley on Feb 13, 2022 16:24:55 GMT
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
Arthur Conan Doyle I think we all crave some dullness now. |
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Post by indy on Feb 13, 2022 16:36:08 GMT
It's the sheer number of them that are troubling.
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Post by andydp on Feb 14, 2022 14:03:00 GMT
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.
Roger Sherman
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
Emily Bronte
And for Valentine's Day:
It's such a happiness when good people get together.
Jane Austen
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Post by andydp on Feb 15, 2022 14:00:54 GMT
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
Toni Morrison
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Post by andydp on Feb 16, 2022 13:58:56 GMT
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth
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Post by andydp on Feb 17, 2022 13:39:44 GMT
If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I ?
Omar Khayyam
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Post by andydp on Feb 19, 2022 14:02:31 GMT
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
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Post by andydp on Feb 20, 2022 16:22:51 GMT
A bit busy to do my usual research. This popped up on my FB feed.  |
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Post by andydp on Feb 22, 2022 13:40:06 GMT
Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.
Al-Ghazali
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Post by andydp on Feb 23, 2022 13:06:52 GMT
Mr Speaker, I withdraw my statement that half the cabinet are asses - half the cabinet are not asses.
Benjamin Disraeli
PS: See bonus Bon Mot in Sickness of Christianist...
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Post by andydp on Feb 24, 2022 13:37:31 GMT
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
Pericles
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