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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard.
-Penelope Lively, writer (b. 17 Mar 1933)
relucent:
1. Shining or reflecting light.
2. Radiant; luminous.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
-Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (13 Mar 1900-1971)
bantam (BAN-tuhm)
noun:
1. Any of various breeds of small chickens, often miniature versions of larger breeds.
2. A small but aggressive person.
adjective:
1. Diminutive; miniature.
2. Aggressive; spirited.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It is the hardest thing in the world to be in love, and yet attend to business. A gentleman asked me this morning, 'What news from Lisbon?' and I answered, 'She is exquisitely handsome.'
-Richard Steele, writer and politician (12 Mar 1672-1729)
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
-Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)
Laodiceanism: Indifference or lukewarmness, especially in matters of religion or politics.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
-H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933)
Babylonian
1. Relating to Babylon or Babylonia.
2. Splendidly luxurious.
3. Decadent or corrupt.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!
-Yuri Gagarin, first human in space (9 Mar 1934-1968)
arcadia: A region that is idyllic, pastoral: simple, peaceful.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
-Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564)
profusion:
1. Extravagance.
2. A large quantity or abundance.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Sometimes they seem like living shapes, / The people of the sky, / Guests in white raiment coming down / From heaven, which is close by.
-Lucy Larcom, teacher and author (5 Mar 1824-1893)
perfusion:
1. The spreading of a liquid, color, light, aroma, etc.
2. The passage of a fluid through an organ or tissue, for example, to supply nutrients or oxygen.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Creativity -- like human life itself -- begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: "And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!" It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that ...
