October 2006 - Daily Inspirations

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Paradigm of Melange - October 2006

What Constitutes Sanity?

October 27th 2006 21:25

Oscar Wilde says:
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

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Just three-fourths? How about 98.5% of the population? ;o)

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The Aim of Life

October 27th 2006 21:20

Oscar Wilde says:
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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Viggo Deconstructs The Concept Of National Identity

October 26th 2006 14:18

Wolfgang Harrer says:
With all that you know, or not know about Germany and us Germans, what would be your most optimistic, idealistic and also maybe challenging dream for Germany's future or if a young German comes to you and says "Hey, I want to have a dream for my country and I am not into this old kind of patriotism what would you tell that person?"

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Just Kidding

October 26th 2006 13:53

Viggo Mortensen says:
This year's first day of April was noticeably lacking in April Fool's jokes as far as mention in the media was concerned. Perhaps this is due to the fact that, with George Bush and Dick Cheney still at the helm of the ship of state, there is no need to single out a particular day for foolishness or nasty pranks in the United States: every day is April Fool's day in this country for the time being.

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The Effort To Keep Questioning

October 25th 2006 15:35

Viggo Mortensen says:
...I like that people draw their own conclusions. In life, it's the effort you make to try and understand which keeps you alive and open. It is more important to ask questions than to find answers.

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On Pleasing Others

October 25th 2006 15:27

Viggo Mortensen says:
Make it [art] purely to please yourself and then there's a chance to please someone else.

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Photographical Adventures

October 24th 2006 15:25

Viggo Mortensen says:
You tend to be paying more attention when you have a camera. You look more attentively. You're much more aware of the landscape. Whether you use it or not, everything kind of changes when you've got the camera with you, the potential of using it.

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Subverting the Rules

October 24th 2006 15:14

Viggo Mortensen says:
Because of how I was brought up, I go along with it for a while when someone tells me about a rule, but eventually I always end up asking myself: Why does it have to be this way?

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A Musical Bent

October 15th 2006 13:38

Victor Hugo says:

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

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Recontextualising Comfort and Affliction

October 15th 2006 13:29

Finley Peter Dunne says:

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable

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Relocating the Landscape

October 12th 2006 14:28

Cecil Beaton says:

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure

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Don't Play It Safe

October 12th 2006 14:24

Cecil Beaton says:

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary

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The Thing You Think You Cannot Do

October 6th 2006 08:47

Eleanor Roosevelt says:
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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Weaving One's Way Through

October 5th 2006 10:47

Anonymous Author says:
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

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Get Your Timing RIght

October 5th 2006 10:39

Bo Bennett says:
Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

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DIY

October 4th 2006 12:07

Andy Warhol says:
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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Personalised Rays of Light

October 4th 2006 07:13

Rob Brezsny says:
You can see! Light of many colors floods into your eyes, registered by nerves that took God or evolution or some process millions of years to perfect. The interesting gift of these vivid hues comes to you courtesy of an unimaginably immense globe of fire, the sun, which continually detonates nuclear reactions in order to convert its body into light and heat and energy for your personal use.

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Embrace Your Contradictions

October 4th 2006 00:27

Lisa Alther says:
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

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Why Not, After All?

October 3rd 2006 09:28

George Bernard Shaw says:

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not

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Dreaming

October 3rd 2006 09:22

Edgar Allan Poe says:
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

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Soul Searching

October 2nd 2006 11:06

Socrates says: (in Plato, Dialogues, Apology)

The unexamined life is not worth living

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Abolish Your Fear, All Ye Who Enter Here

October 2nd 2006 11:06

Bertrand Russell says: (in Marriage and Morals, Ch. 19)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead

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The Perils of Consistency

October 1st 2006 03:47

Oscar Wilde says:
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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On Thinking Like Others

October 1st 2006 00:32

Friedrich Nietzsche says:
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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