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Monthly Archives: March 2020

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Thought of the Day: Tuesday 31st March

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Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.

Frank Zappa

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Thought of the Day: Monday 30th March

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In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

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Thought of the Day: Sunday 29th March

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

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Thought of the Day: Saturday 28th March

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We write to heighten our…awareness of life…to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

Anaïs Nin

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Thought of the Day: Friday 27th March

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One is the master of what one doesn’t say and the slave of what one does.

General Franco

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Thought of the Day: Thursday 26th March

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Life is, in itself and forever, shipwreck.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Thought of the Day: Wednesday 25th March

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The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.

Malcolm de Chazal

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Thought of the Day: Tuesday 24th March

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Interestingly, Koi, when put in a fish bowl will only grow up to three inches. When the same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow up to nine inches long. In a pond, Koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, Koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.

Vince Poscente

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Thought of the Day: Monday 23rd March

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A story is not an explanation, it is a net through which the truth flows. The net catches some of the truth, but not all, never all, only enough so that we can live with the extraordinary without it killing us.

Patrick Ness

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Thought of the Day: Sunday 22nd March

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The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Ogden Nash

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