Ideas won’t keep…

“Ideas won’t keep…” #19

Ignorance doesn’t kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.
-Haitian proverb
Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous?
-Hobbes in “Calvin and Hobbes”
Watterson

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #38

We should have no regrets. We should never look back. The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in experiences it brought is something we had to know.
-Rebecca Beard

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #13

In real life, it only takes one to make a quarrel.
-Ogden Nash

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“…wonderous days, surprising days” #4

Those who love the young best stay young the longest.
-Edgar Z. Friedenberg

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“We are each of us unique.” #6

There are no precedents: You are the first you that ever was.
-Christopher Morley
Inward Ho
We are each so much more than what some reduce to measuring.
-Karen Kaiser Clark
Once you label me, you negate me.
-Soren Kierkegard

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“…wondrous days, surprising days” #77

The most popular surgery in this country, coronary bypass surgery, is the probably a metaphor. The problem with our culture is that we have bypassed the heart.
-Rachel Naomi Remen, M. D.

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Like a Cat on the Stove-Lid: On Learning #2

No one can really become educated without having pursued some study in which he [or she] took no interest-for it is part of the education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
-T. S. Eliot

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Giving Your Word(s): On Writing and Talking #6

…Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child’s mind, they are not easily eradicated.
-May Sarton

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Trusting in Time #4

[Can] a stranger from one generation say much that is helpful to members of another generation standing on a different doorstep in time? Just as a life is a particular life, so a generation lives in its own unque time.
-Bill Moyers
[commencement address]

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“Ideas won’t keep…” #72

To recieve a present handsomely, and in the right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
-Leigh Hunt

Most of us know how to give. We are raised on sating like “It is better to give than to receive.”
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