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And the day came......

"We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers and our willingness to embrace what is true, rather than what feels good," ~ Carl Sagan.

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HEY, I know that place! It's Pictured Rocks right?

Taproot MagazineTaproot (Issue no. 23, October 2017)
 

My BFF just picked up the latest issue of Taproot magazine and as I began to browse articles, it simply opened up to am single huge page devoted to an intriguing quote by an favorite author:

Head

"The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages with an equally open one," -- Toni Morrison.

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy," ~Charles de Montesquieu.

(French social commentator and political thinker during the Age of Enlightenment).

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"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing,
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance,"

~ e.e. cummings

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"She wasn't looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword." ~ atticus

Langston Hughes | Dreams
 

"Deep down, I'm shallow."

Ava Gardner ( gotta love her )

I've posted this before but I do like it... a lot.

"What we see before us is but one tiny part of the world,"
-- The Wind-up Bird Chronicles (Murakami, H.).

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And the day came .... (anais nin),

When there was nothing left to do but smile, smile smile (Jerry Garcia),

And ..... think positive thoughts (Eckhart Tolle).

“Be so completely yourself that everyone else feels safe to be themselves, too.” – anon

If you plan on seeing Call me by your name, this is a spoiler alert
 

The whole movie touched me so much but not as much as the scene near the end, when Elio's father spoke to him. I think that I cried more than Elio did:

“I may have come close, but I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way. How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.

But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

Doctrine of Hegemony
 

"My Dad told me, way back, that there's no difference between a white snake and a black snake: They'll both bite."
-- U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.

In, Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas (Mayer, J. & Abramson, J., 1994. Houghton Mifflin Company, NY NY, 10003. ISBN: 0-395-63318-4).

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, that within me, something stronger --much better, is pushing right back," ~ Albert Camus.

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