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#373807 - 01/04/12 03:28 AM
Re: Meaningful quote to ponder for new year
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I like the citation Alice posted.
Somehow the following citation came to mind:
"It is not the amount one does, nor the consciousness of one's own usefulness which makes one happy in serving, but the assurance that one would be called on and used in case of need." - James Butler Stoney - 1814-1897
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#373818 - 01/04/12 01:12 PM
Re: Meaningful quote to ponder for new year
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Alice, I shared this quote with an agnostic I know and all he said in response was, "How cryptic."
Yours sure does beat the one I start each year with. It's attributed to Gertrude Stein:
"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. THAT'S the answer."
But then, I often teeter on the brink of nihilism...
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#373819 - 01/04/12 05:33 PM
Re: Meaningful quote to ponder for new year
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"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. THAT'S the answer." More precisely: It's all a mystery, a Great Mystery.
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