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Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
6.7.21

Brief Philosophical Thought: On Everydayness and How to Live One's Life to the Zaniest

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In this post, I tussle with Martin Heidegger's concept of "everydayness," — all the while having fun in the town of Catskill, ...
27.5.20

Quotation: A Proverb on Taking a Hint (And How One Word is Enough)

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In this quote post, I lay into a pithy proverb coined by a Roman dramatist about taking a hint (and when to take it). ” A word to the wise ...
5.4.20

Quotation: Mr. Keating from Dead Poets' Society on Writing

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In the movie Dead Poets Society , Robin Williams plays the role of private school teacher Mr. Keating  — a man who believes words can be bu...
25.9.18

Forty-Three Year Anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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"Don't Dream it. Be it." Dr. Frankenfurter, The Rocky Horror Picture Show Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry, and Nell Campbell...
21.6.18

Everyone Should Be Welcome in This Country

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I found this message written by hand on my recent visit to the Jackson Heights Library in Queens.
18.3.18

Lost in Thought - Who Said What? ("What, me worry?")

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Alfred E. Neuman , the poster boy for the humor magazine Mad (1952 - ) "The reason many people are lost in thought is because it&#...
15.9.13

19 Sayings: From Nietzsche Thinking Intensely (Quotable Nietzsche)

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In this post, I select 19 quotable sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche Thinking Intensely (image: Flickr/SPDP ) I read "23 Sig...
4.1.13

Theresa of Avila on the Meaning of Life

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Handwriting Credit: Greig Roselli EZ Link for Sharing
17.9.12

Quotation: Lucretius On Childish Fear

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"Our life is one long struggle in the darkness; and as children in a dark room are terrified of everything, so we in broad daylight...
24.1.12

Quote on Laziness by Alfred E. Neuman (from Mad Magazine)

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In this post, I present a quote on laziness by the king of satire himself Alfred E. Neuman . "Most people are so lazy, they don&#...
19.12.11

Marcel Proust On the Advantage of Books Over Images

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"... a new book was not one of similar objects but, as it were a unique person, absolutely self-contained .... Beneath the everyday...
28.8.11

Quote from Auntie Mame: "Life's a Banquet"

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Rosalind Russel as Auntie Mame (1958) Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death. ~Auntie Mame  What is so ...
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15.8.11

Quote from Don Quixote

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Henry Caseroti,  Cock-A-Doodle-Doo , 2010 Every cock crows on its own dung hill Miguel Cervante s , Don Quixote PDF Copy for Print...
11.1.11

Quotation: Alfred North Whitehead on Great Ideas

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A great idea, says Whitehead, "is like a phantom ocean beating upon the shores of human life in successive waves of specializing.&quo...
8.12.10

Quote on Empathy

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On Walking in Someone Else's Shoes: "There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there ar...
29.7.10

Luis Buñuel on Film and the Subconscious

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To commemorate Luis Buñuel 's death in 1983, here is an evocative piece he wrote about film and the subconscious: In the hands of a fr...