He Should Know About Intelligence!

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.

~ Albert Einstein ~

I Hope It's Not Too Late

Changes that can affect us can happen in our lifetime in our world--not just changes like wars but bigger and more sweeping events. I believe that without recognizing it we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change; that we are at the end of nature. By the end of nature I do not mean the end of the world. The rain will still fall and the sun shine, though differently than before. When I say "nature," I mean a certain set of human ideas about the world and our place in it.

~ Bill McKibben ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

~ Robertson Davies ~

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R.I.P.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

~ Michael Jackson ~




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Poetry Friday

I never want to be thought of as pandering to a broad audience, but you can tweak a poem just slightly and broaden the audience very much. If you have a literary allusion, you limit the audience. Every choice requires a cost-benefit analysis.

~ Ted Kooser ~

Spoken like a true former Poet Laureate AND retired insurance exec. --KK

They Just Hate Me!

Poison ivy is not, technically, an ivy. Poison oak is not an oak. Poison sumac has nothing to do with sumac trees. And by the way, none of them are poisonous.

The irritating oil they produce, urushiol, is not at all toxic, but it does happen to be an oil that most people are highly allergic to. Oddly enough, only humans are bothered by exposure to urushiol. No one knows why the plants have singled out people for their unique form of vitriol.

~ Amy Stewart ~

I Work in Paradise--Oh, My!

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

~ Jorge Luis Borges ~

Freedom of Speech

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

~ George Washington ~

Summer!

A life without love is like a year without summer.

~ Swedish proverb ~







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Sunday's Kat Kwote

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The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

~ Italo Calvino ~

A Wonderful Time of Year

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

~ Iris Murdoch ~

Poetry Friday

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

~ Jim Harrison ~

And You Can't Understand If You Don't Take Time

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure--if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

~ Ethel Barrymore ~

Mindsets

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

~ Muhammad Yunus ~


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This Makes Sense to Me!

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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Hmmm...

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

~ Lawrence Welk ~


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Sunday's Kat Kwote

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

~ Robert A. Stern ~







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Are We All Fools?

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson ~

Poetry Friday

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

~Joseph Joubert~

That's One Thousand Five Hundred

Did you know that the average food product travels about 1,500 miles to get to your grocery store? And that transporting food accounts for 30,800 tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year?

~ from the Food, Inc. website ~

How Many of You Can Recite This by Heart?

One fish
two fish
red fish
blue fish.

Black fish
blue fish
old fish
new fish.

This one has
a little star.

This one has a little car.
Say! what a lot
of fish there are.

Kindness

With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.

~ Persian proverb ~

A Thought for Monday

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

~ Samuel Butler ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.

~ German proverb ~

Unless you're a cat! --KK





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Talking Is Overrated

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

~ Ginger Rogers ~




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Poetry Friday

Let go of any preconceived ideas and simply do whatever brings you the most enjoyment. This is your life, the book you are writing.

~ Jane Reichhold ~

Berries

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

She Had a Great Sense of Humor!

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

~ Marilyn Monroe ~

Precisely?

Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say.
Yours sincerely, Wasting Away.

~ The Beatles ~





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Hendrix

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

~ Jimi Hendrix ~



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