Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jun 28, 2018 06:11 PM by Magical Realist.)

“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jun 29, 2018 06:23 PM by Magical Realist.)

“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.”
― E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

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**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 2, 2018 04:18 PM by Magical Realist.)

“I can hear your whisper and distant mutter. I can smell your damp on the breeze and in the sky I see the halo of your violence. Storm I know you are coming.”
― Robert Fanney

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 3, 2018 02:45 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Jul 4, 2018 05:41 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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**C C** · (This post was last modified: Jul 4, 2018 06:30 PM by C C.)

Bump thread up (over noon posting news deluge - Recent Activity).

**Magical Realist** · Jul 5, 2018 06:40 PM

“Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible three dimensional grid. This grid therefore contains a thousand trillion connections - that's 1,000,000,000,000,000 (a quadrillion). It's hard to imagine this, so let's visualise each connection as a disc that's 1mm thick. Stack up the quadrillion discs on top of each other and they will reach the sun (which is ninety-three million miles from the earth) and back, three times over.”
― Nessa Carey, The Epigenetics Revolution

**Magical Realist** · Jul 7, 2018 03:53 PM

“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

**Magical Realist** · Jul 8, 2018 10:08 PM

"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all."---Paul Simon

**Magical Realist** · Jul 9, 2018 08:03 PM

"The number of American troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2001 and 2012 was 6,488. The number of American women who were murdered by current or ex male partners during that time was 11,766. That’s nearly double the amount of casualties lost during war."---Huffington Post