October 2009
31 posts
“There is grandeur in this view of life… whilst this planet has gone cycling on...”
– Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
Oct 23rd
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Oct 23rd
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“Your faith has saved you. Today you will be with me in paradise.”
– Jesus, to a thief who was crucified alongside him
Oct 23rd
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Oct 21st
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“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkein
Oct 21st
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Oct 18th
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“It’s an experience beyond words. Those who know can not tell, and those...”
– Joseph Campbell, explaining to Bill Moyers that at some point in life God makes a sudden, palpable appearance.
Oct 18th
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Oct 16th
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“Always the beautiful answer that asks the more beautiful question.”
– e. e. cummings
Oct 16th
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Oct 15th
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“Stuff and Nonesense, said Alice loudly, growing to her full size. Why, you’re...”
– Alice in Wonderland
Oct 15th
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Oct 15th
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“Love has reasons that Reason knoweth not.”
– Blaise Pascal
Oct 14th
Oct 14th
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ListenLet’s Go Out Tonight Craig Armstrong
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,  Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. - Robert Frost
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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““Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to...”
– Mary Oliver
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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Saint
“No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid… “Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.” — George Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi,”
Oct 14th
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Oct 10th
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“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”
– Napoleon
Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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“Like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried, ...”
– Leonard Cohen
Oct 4th
Oct 4th
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“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about...”
– Buckminster Fuller
Oct 2nd
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Oct 2nd
“Why is experience the worst teacher? Because first she gives the test, then...”
Oct 2nd
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Oct 1st
“I have reason to believe We all will be received in Graceland.”
–  Paul Simon, Graceland
Oct 1st