This comes from Wordsmith's Word of the Day which, happily, also includes a Thought for the Day!
When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it__Charles de Lint, writer
For the past couple of years, I've been posting this quote, from Neil Gamon, as my new year's wish as well for everyone!
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
_Neil Gaiman
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I include here also a short vid from the fine, and vaguely mad, folks at NASA :)
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor_1706-1790
Once or twice in every generation a line is crossed so egregiously that where you stood on the issue will forever define you. -Kara Vallow, artist (b. 1967) ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
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A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written 
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty…We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.McCarthy used lies and innuendo to intimidate critics, famously parading a fake list of communists in the State Department, accusing a Democratic administration of participating in a vast conspiracy to subvert our sovereignty and falsely declaring that the ACLU a communist front group. In an ironic bit of symmetry, among his aides was a young true believer named Roy Cohn, who would later become attorney for both mob bosses and Donald Trump. It was from Cohn that Trump learned to never apologize, always attack.
Good Night, and Good Luck, directed by George Clooney, 
Practice Gratitude, Learn To Say Thank You 
Christina Rossetti_Poet_1830-1894
Ann Patchett_Writer_1963 to current 
Racism tends to attract attention when it's flagrant and filled with invective. But like all bigotry, the most potent component of racism is frame-flipping -- positioning the bigot as the actual victim. So the gay do not simply want to marry; they want to convert our children into sin. The Jews do not merely want to be left in peace; they actually are plotting world take-over. And the blacks are not actually victims of American power, but beneficiaries of the war against hard-working whites. This is a respectable, more sensible bigotry, one that does not seek to name-call, preferring instead change the subject and straw man. 
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
Fred Astaire, dancer, actor, singer, musician, and choreographer 
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. 
Shelved rows of books warm and brighten the starkest room, and scattered single volumes reveal mental processes in progress -- books in the act of consumption, abandoned but readily resumable, tomorrow or next year
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I can’t believe Trump called Obama “sick.” That’s like Stalin accusing Mother Teresa of crimes against humanity.