December 30, 2014

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

 Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936):

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.”

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“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”

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“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”

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“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

Paul Bowles (1910 – 1999):

“How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”

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“I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.”

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“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”

Sandy Koufax (1935 - ):

“I don't regret one minute of the last twelve years, but I do believe I would regret one minute too many.”

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“The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.”

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“Trying to hit him was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.” – Willie Stargell

Patti Smith (1946 - ):

“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

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“Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.”

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“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.”

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“Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.”

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“Writing is not some quiet, closet act.”

Jeff Lynne (1947 - ):

“Mr. Blue you did it right,

But soon comes Mr. Night,

Creepin' over, now his

Hand is on your shoulder,

Never mind I'll remember you this way.”

Douglas Coupland (1961 - ):

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

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“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”

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“We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

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“I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.”