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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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You cannot have a successful club without rules; but a family will really do without any rules exactly in proportion as it is a successful family.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: On Household Gods and Goblins (1922)

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Baruch Katz · @baruch
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א קאפ קען מען נישט ארויפשטעלען.

- Yiddish proverb

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Enoch · @enoch
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Don’t bite the fingers of the hand that’s attached to the arm of the body of the person that’s making your snacks.

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Enoch · @enoch
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you, unless it’s attached to an asshole.

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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For children are innocent and love justice; while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: On Household Gods and Goblins (1922)

#oddproverbs #wisdom #children #story #justice #mercy #life #quotes

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Christian Lament · @christianlament
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The carbs of my enemy are my friends.

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Enoch · @enoch
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Never trust a man that’s giving away Turkey’s on thanksgiving, for he desires the hearts of the people and will soon be hard to handle.

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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‘We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable .

It is , served out in large rations by the popular , which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.’

— Susan Sontag

#terror #fantasy #arts #art #philosophy #culture #media #existentialism #quotes #friday #oddproverbs #meditation #wisdom

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask you one of four questions:

When did you stop ?…”

— Gabrielle Roth

#medicine #dancing #quotes #culture #oddproverbs #meditation #inspiration #wisdom #friday #life #stories #singing #silence

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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'In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female...

The normal and comfortable state of being is that when the two live in harmony together, spiritually co-operating...

It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties.

Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine…'

— Virginia Woolfe

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#quote #books #gender #oddproverbs #friday

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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"The is, a great must be ."

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#truth #mind #androgynous #quote #literature #gender #oddproverbs #friday

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

— Cicero

#history #histodons #quotes #oddproverbs #education

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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‘To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.'

The aim … should be to make works of art — and, our own experience — more, rather than less, real to us.’

— Susan Sontag

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#art #criticism #CreativeToots #creativity #books #bookstodon #quotes #oddproverbs #life #reading

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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‘My desire to write is connected to my homosexuality.

I need the as a weapon to match the weapon that has against me.

I am just becoming aware of how guilty I feel being .’

— Susan Sontag

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#identity #society #queer #women #womenshistorymonth #WomenLifeFreedom #LGBTQ #lgbt #quotes #oddproverbs #writing #WritingCommunity #books

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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#advice #writers #writing #WritingCommunity #quotes #oddproverbs #womenshistorymonth #women #writer

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Sean Murthy · @smurthys
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Frequent Frappuccino, definite diabetes.
- Ancient Duwamish saying

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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I began at age 6 or 7, it felt like I was joining an army of .

It didn’t feel like I was expressing myself, but taking part of a noble activity.

— Susan Sontag ,

artsandopinion.com/2009_v8_n5/

#writing #Saints #writer #film #movies #documentary #oddproverbs #books #bookstodon #reading #literature #friday #WritingCommunity #quotes #throwbackthursday #inspiration #women #womenshistorymonth

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Andy Hunter · @Andylikesguitars
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Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in the shoes. That way, when you do criticise then, you're a mile away and you've got their shoes.

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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"Good and good are always about a condition of awe …

I don’t think there is any other function for the or the in the tribe but the astonishment of the .
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I have no nation, now, but the ."

—Derek Walcott

#science #art #poet #scientist #human #soul #imagination #quote #blackmastodon #BlackFedi #CreativeToots #spirituality #meditation #inspiration #oddproverbs #friday #life

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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#today #meditation #quotes #oddproverbs #spirituality #poetrycommunity #poetry #wisdom

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