“We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches
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Some Are Bigger than Others
Tag: #Wednesday Quotes
Garden Competition
A flower doesn’t not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
anon.
Wednesday Quotes: Pink Flowers
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They Don’t Stand a Chance
to catch him. At least if they believe Zeno.
Zeno thought of the Achilles paradox. If a faster runner is trying to overtake a slower runner in front of him, he will first have to move to the midpoint between his position and the slower runner’s position. From there he has to reach the new midpoint between him and the one in front. And so on. He will never reach the slower runner in front. Or it can be explained like this:
“There are a series of philosophical problems known as Zeno’s paradoxes. One of them says that as you attempt to leave a room, you must first reach the midpoint between you and the exit. As you continue toward the doorway, you will again reach the new midpoint, with each successive attempt to exit the room requiring you to reach the next midpoint. The paradox is that you should be unable to leave a room because you can infinitely halve the distance to the exit without ever getting out of the room.”
― J. Russell Ramsay, The Adult ADHD Tool Kit: Using CBT to Facilitate Coping Inside and Out
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Whose Skull Is It Anyway?
“At least I’m still in love with Yorick’s skull. At least I always have time enough to stay in love with Yorick’s skull. I want an honorable goddam skull when I’m dead, buddy. I hanker after an honorable goddam skull like Yorick’s.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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Purple Tears
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walker, The Colour Purple
Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Line
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Not Yet, Not Yet, Not Yet …
“I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”
Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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Three Opinions on Abstract Art
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
It’s not what you look at what matters. It’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
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And Thanks for All the Flowers
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Rhine Valley
“Gut! Wenn ich wählen soll, so will ich Rheinwein haben.
Das Vaterland verleiht die allerbesten Gaben.”“Good! if I have the choice, so let the wine be Rhenish!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust I
Our Fatherland can best the sparkling cup replenish.”
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