"Je t'ai pas raconté la fois où j'ai été déserteur ?" J.
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Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

Really enjoyed the exhibition on women in Somerset in WWII at the Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury. Useful for my research for On This Day in Somerset!

#qotd What was the last interesting place you visited?

#QOTD: "There are no finished books, only exhausted authors." - Bob Sutton

#QOTD: "If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Gonna just clip this right here for my #QOTD collection, since I spit out my drink reading it.

#QOTD: "You can't solve exponential problems with linear solutions." - Banny Banerjee

"Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor."
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
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A quotation from Lincoln

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1858-08-21), Lincoln-Douglas Debate No. 1, Ottawa, Illinois

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/4895…

A quotation from Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances — it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

"Comment ça se dit "Anschluss" en russe ?"
#Qotd

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Positive,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1077/

Cold air is biting, a cold heart fatal. ~Peter Amendt #ThoughtOfTheDay #ThoughtForToday #QOTD #FKK #QuoteOfTheDay #NaturismIsFamilyFriendly #Nudismo #BodyFreedom #TeamNaturistInternational

A quotation from James Madison

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

James Madison (1751-1836) American statesman, political theorist, US President (1809-17)
Letter (1822-08-04) to William T. Barry

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/madison-james/76098/

Deux vieilles dames expliquent comment elles se connaissent :
"On est co-grand-mères ! On a les mêmes petits-enfants."
<3 #QOTD #motdujour

A quotation from Victor Hugo

Why? Because. The most terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts — Because.
 
[Pourquoi ? Parce que. Le plus terrible des motifs et la plus indiscutable des réponses: Parce que.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76086/

A quotation from Longfellow

Toiling — rejoicing — sorrowing,
   Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
   Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
   Has earned a night’s repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“The Village Blacksmith,” st. 7 (1840)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/longfellow-henry-wad…

Small wishes are fulfilled immediately ... the larger ones require consideration. ~D. Wieser #ThoughtOfTheDay #ThoughtForToday #QOTD #FKK #QuoteOfTheDay #NaturismIsFamilyFriendly #Nudismo #BodyFreedom #TeamNaturistInternational

“The written word is the link between the past and the future.” — Lincoln Barnett, The Treasure of Our Tongue
#qotd #LincolnBarnett #Writing #quote

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Norman MacEwan