@mryahooey.bsky.social“Socrates was right that writing would change memory. He was wrong when he insisted it would diminish us.” — Seth Godin, "The Builder’s Creed," Seth’s Blog (02026-07-07)
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@wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy> Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.
**Benjamin Franklin** (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
_Poor Richard Improved_ (1749 ed.)
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@mryahooey.bsky.social“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple.” — Oscar Wilde, Letter to Robert Ross (01897-04-01)
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@kenwhytock.bsky.social“…the physical world in which we live shapes the abstract world in which we think…" #quote #quotation
@mryahooey.bsky.social“There is no pleasure like that of receiving praise from the praiseworthy.” — Richard Steele, The Tatler, (01709-11-02)
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@mryahooey.bsky.social“RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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@wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy> If _Passion_ drives, let _Reason_ hold the Reins.
**Benjamin Franklin** (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
_Poor Richard Improved_ (1749 ed.)
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@spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gyI turned to speak to God
about the world's despair
but to make bad matters worse
I found God wasn't there.
God turned to speak to me
(Don't anybody laugh)
God found I wasn't there
at least not over half.
Robert Frost, 1926
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@mryahooey.bsky.social“A lot of evidence indicates that we are destroying the foundations of human prosperity in an orgy of reckless consumption.” — Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
#YuvalNoahHarari #Quote #Quotation #QOTD #Consumption
@mryahooey.bsky.social“We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, Miss Manners believes, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.” — Judith Martin, "Happy Mother’s Day to a Single Acquaintance,," Miss Manners (02010-05-09)
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@wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gyA quotation from Samuel Johnson
> Those who do not feel pain, seldom think that it is felt.
**Samuel Johnson** (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-09-01), _The Rambler,_ No. 48
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@wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gyA quotation from Terry Pratchett
> Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
**Terry Pratchett** (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 13, _Small Gods_ (1992)
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@mryahooey.bsky.social“Questions are not neutral; they presuppose a list of assumptions that may be long and complex.” — Stephen Jay Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack
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@mryahooey.bsky.social“The real secrets are not the ones I tell.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection (1994)
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