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Mixing fantasy with reality: How Sesame Street’s Big Bird was born.
Joan Ganz Cooney: How Big Bird Was Born
“This one’s for the lonely; the ones that seek and find, only to be let down time after time. This one’s for the torn down, the experts at the fall. Come on friends get up now you’re not alone at all.”
The voyage of discovery is not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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| — | Marcel Proust (via gregwong) |
Nephew’s Kinder Graduation
Nephew’s Kinder Graduation
Me: So you done with school?
Nephew: [shakes head]
Me: You have to go back?
Nephew: [with that duh tone] First Grade!Lol! Not what I meant but the profoundness of that statement…
Quote Of The Day
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
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| — | John Burroughs |
Quote Of The Nit3
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
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| — | David Livingstone |
Quote of the Day
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Laurence Sterne
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| — | Laurence Sterne |
Quote Of The Morning
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
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| — | Michael Jordan |
