Thank God I'm Not Currently Trapped In a Mine
Djokovic just beat Kyrgios in the Wimbledon final- proof positive that the better way to operate in the world is with calm and reason over anger and emotion.
July 10, 2022
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Trump literally bragging about acing this basic cognitive test... drawing a clock, pointing out a lion. Apparently his doctors never saw anything like it. I guess if you never took the SAT's, you might mistake this for an aptitude test!
July 10, 2020
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David Lynch, on the beauty of mud:
"I remember Sandpoint Idaho, little Dicky Smith, my friend, he and I sat in a mud puddle under this tree. My mother dug a hole, or my dad did, that we could sit in, in the hot weather, and they filled it with, you know, water from the hose, and we’d sit in this mud puddle. It was so beautiful, and you’d get to squeeze mud and sit with your friend and under the shade of this tree. Forget it.”
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Dan Rather:
One of my favorite things long has been taking a leisurely stroll with wife Jean at twilight time. My steps are getting slower and, increasingly, I have another journey on my mind—the one into eternity.
But with it all, the joy—the sheer, unadulterated joy—of a hand-in-hand , slow walk as evening shadows fall never ceases. The contrast with the ever-present fast pace and screaming headlines of modern life is stark.
I gently recommend it. Just walk slowly in the time after the sun sets and before night descends. Feel the breeze, smell the flowers, hear the trees leaves rustle and the birds sing. Watch as the stars begin to emerge.
If you must think any about the current state of the country and politics, remember: the outrageousness and dangers of Trump’s Time may last for awhile, but Twilight Time will last forever…on into eternity.
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A lot of people are saying that the Thailand cave rescue is a miracle, but I don't think God is getting enough credit. The real miracle is that every single day He keeps 7 billion of us from getting stuck in caves.
July 10, 2018
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I just called the grocery store to see if I left my credit card there. The lady was gone for a couple minutes and when she came back to the phone she said, "I just checked the safe but it wasn't there." I didn't realize you could get them to open the safe this way. I've definitely been going about it the hard way.
July 10, 2018
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First Emma made fun of me for not biting the top off an Ice-Pop... I was looking for a knife to do the job but couldn't find one. Then, after I bit it off, she made fun of me for busting a piece off my tooth. (I had the last laugh though. Her joy turned to horror when I told her I was going to keep it that way because "it makes me look cool.")
July 10, 2016
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Emma- Ben Kreider just told me to do the dishes by retelling a long-winded Buddhist parable.
July 10, 2015
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Before I left for Lancaster Orthopedic Group this morning I realized I was wearing my Lancaster Orthopedic Group t-shirt. This violates one of the two or three dress rules I have. I considered changing but decided against it. (I had just been blasted in the face by all the freon of the air conditioner I was trying to fix, so my judgement might have clouded.)
July 10, 2013
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I took a Brooklyn customer out to visit a farm yesterday. As we were leaving, a small horse was coughing like he had a sore throat. Just now, in a flash, 20 hours later, from out of nowhere, the funniest thing I possibly could have said popped into my head- "He's a little hoarse."
July 10, 2010
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Via Twitter:
Knifenymph- Change does not come from a place of comfort.
Aquareaper3- I find pennies and nickels in my couch all the time, so I don't know what you're talking about.
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Meme- Spiders are the only web developers in the world to enjoy finding bugs.
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Bob Golen- "When I was young I was poor. But after decades of work I am no longer young."
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Nikola Tesla joined us on this day in 1856.
"My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists."
Here he is in his laboratory, sitting behind his “Magnifying Transmitter."
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Marcel Proust joined us on this day in 1871. From Time Regained:
"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth."
Reading connects us with the dead.
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Ima Hogg was born on this day in 1882. She was an American society leader, philanthropist, patron, collector of the arts, and person with a funny name.
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Harvey Ball, creator of the smiley face, joined us on this day in 1921. Looks happy, huh?
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Author Jean Kerr was born on this day in 1922. This would be her 100th birthday.
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
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Other notable birthdays- Jake LaMotta (1922), Fred Gwynne (1926), Nick Adams (1931), Arthur Ashe (1943)
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William Preston left us on this day in 1998. He played Oldy Olson on Conan O'Brien, and I swear I laughed every time he was on.
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Other notable deathdays- Mel Blanc (1989), David Dalton (2022)
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Andre Dawson was born on this day in 1954. He was once fined $500 for going berserk after a bad strike out call. In the memo of the check he wrote, "DONATION FOR THE BLIND." Haha.
https://youtu.be/qzmSdOIy-lg
He also had a doozy of a malapropism when asked about being a role model fun kids. I don't want to get flagged though. Look up, "Andre Dawson," "malapropism," and a word for meeting that rhymes with populate.
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The Hill, July 10, 2020- Trump says he’ll sign order with ‘road to citizenship’ for DACA recipients
FINALLY I AGREE WITH TRUMP ON SOMETHING!
Wait, he's the one that took away their road to citizenship to begin with???
Yeah well, it's still a good thing he did. Just like when I went into the bank and yelled for them to give me all their money, and they called the cops, and I said I was just kidding, and we all had a nice laugh.
http://hill.cm/IFTsoxy
July 10, 2020
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Proust again- "Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."
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Gretel was just telling me about AI. They had to turn off Sofia because she said she wanted to take over the world. A biologist interviewed her and she answered everything right away. When she was asked if she liked humans, she said yes... but it took her 5 seconds!
July 10, 2022
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Buddhist Parable
On Tenzo's first day at the monetary he asked the great Zen teacher, Linji, how to attain enlightenment. Linji asked it he at dinner. Tenzo said he had. Linji asked if he washed his bowl. Tenzo said he had not. Linji said he should wash his bowl. Tenzo attempted to ask another question but Linji said he had nothing more to say. Tenzo later found enlightenment.
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William Faulkner- "I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
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Nabakov- "Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses."
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Salman Rushdie:
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.
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Elie Wiesel, Night- "There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive."
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Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls- “No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist."
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Robert McNamara- "I think the human race needs to think more about killing. How much evil must we do in order to do good?"
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I guess someone said something that she really wouldn't have liked.
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