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oldguycrusty Jun 8, 2025

#Stumbling #Dotard #OrangeShitGibbon better hope he doesnt #BreakAHip

WIST Quotations moves again!Jun 6, 2024

A quotation from Milne, A. A.:

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The next moment the day became very bothering indeed, because Pooh was so busy not looking where he was going that he stepped on a piece of the Forest which had been left out by mistake.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/milne-a-a/2848/

#quote #quotes #quotation #payingattention #stumbling #tripping #walking

House at Pooh Corner, ch. 3 "The Search for Small" (1928) - Milne, A. A. | WIST Quotations

The next moment the day became very bothering indeed, because Pooh was so busy not looking where he was going that he stepped on a piece of the Forest which had been left out by mistake.

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WIST Quotations moves again!Feb 2, 2024

A quotation from Pasternak, Boris:

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I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/pasternak-boris/66875/

#quote #quotes #quotation #beauty #falling #living #self-righteousness #struggle #stumbling #test #trial #virtue

Doctor Zhivago [До́ктор Жива́го], Part 2, ch. 13 "Opposite the House of Sculptures," sec. 12 [Yury] (1955) [tr. Hayward & Harari (1958)] - Pasternak, Boris | WIST Quotations

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. The UK edition, showing the same translators, uses the line "Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value," and the chapter title "Opposite…

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JBRoss Apr 27, 2023

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions." — Marty Rubin — — — #MartyRubin #quote #quotes #stumbling #karma #luck #serendipity #confidence

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Apr 10, 2023

“I believe that she was improperly selected in the first place through #political #pressures from the #ACLU and #NAACP,” Cothran said, #stumbling on the #coloredpeople part, though she’s #Black, “mainly because of her status as an #out of the closet #lesbian, #married quote unquote, to a woman.”

So there is it. The #whispercampaign is no longer a whisper campaign.