Submissions by JPYoung
Familiar Sight from China Light
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'You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.' - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Snowfire on the Eve of Epiphany
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‘You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.’ - Mary Pickford
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Blockhead
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone, but when you're frightened...
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This We’ll Defend…Viva San Marino!
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‘National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.’ — Richard Rorty
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Interrobang Goes Paris
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1. A non-standard punctuation mark (‽) indicating a question expressed in an exclamatory manner
2. Nickname for a person who repeatedly speaks in interrobangs
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Park Bench Philosophers
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‘The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.’ ― Eleanor Roosevelt
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Fuddy-Duddy World
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‘Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.’ – Guy de Maupassant
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Go Your Own Way
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‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more’ – Shakey’s Henry V
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Defaulters Parade
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Orders are orders...it's the interpretation that counts...
6 mins
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Then…the Sands of Time Ran Out for the French Foreign Legion…
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When one world ends, another begins…
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Full Moon over Twentynine Palms
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Anything can happen during a full moon...and it usually does...
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