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Quote of the Day: And If the Twain Should Meet?
‘All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.’ – Mark Twain.
‘Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.’ – William Shakespeare.
‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’ – Andre Gide.
‘It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.’ – Terry Pratchett.
‘Be content to seem what you really are.’ – Marcus Aurelius.
You could take the opening quotation of this quintet as being at least ironical, but you could also take it another way: that lying in plain sight is, to borrow another line from Terry Pratchett, the key, that ‘no one ever told me it was hard’ and also to have a little trust and faith in yourself. To have the courage, so to speak, ‘to lose sight of the shore’.
We could do worse than that, sometimes. And, what if – what if the twain should meet? What might happen then?
I’m not really sure, but I get the feeling it might be interesting.
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Do you know what a chicken actually looks like
Which would be fairly foul.🤔
Ah, my chickens are coming home to roost, I see.
At least it’s not kilts, we can be glad of that. (It’s all good pun until someone looses an “Aye!”)
“No guts, no glory.” – Beginner skier at the top of a double black-diamond slope.
“Ouch.” — Same skier at the bottom of the same slope.