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AZQCueu2- A to Z cue you too Society.
This is a first for me. Thank you Lillian for tagging me for this quote challenge and it was a bit challenging since my letter was ‘O’ and that made things a bit difficult for me. But, I managed to find something that fit. Even though it took a while. Guess that’s the challenge part of this game!
game created by Rory
Each week, he will select a Random Topic from any genre for the game itself.
AZQCueU2 is a fast challenge game, meaning that when you tag someone it’s because you know they are online on a regular basis and not perhaps every few days, so a daily presence is required for the duration of the game to continue at a certain speed. This game was created for speed and ease, conveniency and efficiency.
Each week he will create a new AZQCueU2 Post with a New Game Topic and he shall begin the game with the first letter of the alphabet which is course and obviously.
To better understand I will quote Rory below:
A
I shall then find a quote on the selected topic where upon the quoter’s surname ends in A.
With my A quote firmly on display, l shall then tag one of my own readership and award them with the second letter of the alphabet ….
B
Their task is to find a quote on the topic from someone with a surname beginning with B, when they have completed the post, they too must tag one of their readership and award them the third letter of the alphabet …
C
This continues until the game stops due to an inability to find a surname beginning with the selected letter for the topic in question.
Only one Quote is required from each player.
The Letter X has been extracted from the alphabet we use.
The Quote used must be the Surname only, not the forename.
Should you create a post, all l would ask of you please is to provide a ping back to the link in game and also provide a manual ping back, so l don’t lose sight of the game itself, which as we all know with WP at present is sadly easily done.
Each newly created reader post, must contain all quotes created by the previous readers so that all newly tagged readers can see the alphabet running smoothly and there is no confusion.
Got it? Ok, this week topic is Society.
Rory took the letter A
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean,
man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.
Man’s life is independent.
He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.”
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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Paula took B
“The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
James Baldwin
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King Ben’s Grandma took C
“To me, the progress of society consists in nothing more than in bringing out the individual, in giving him a consciousness of his own being, and in quickening him to strengthen and elevate his own mind.”
WILLIAM E. CHANNING, Thoughts
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Beckie took D
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
Frederick Douglass
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Sadje took E
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
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Li took F
“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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Jim took G
Galileo said, “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
Galileo Galilei
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Punam took H
“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.”
Alex Haley
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Fandango took I
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
Lee Iacocca
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Ashley took J
“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
Thomas Jefferson
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Ribana took K
“Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.”
Robert Kennedy
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Huguette took L
“Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.”
Joseph Lancaster
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Simon took M
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
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Orkidedatter took N
Vi er alle oppdagelsesreisende i livet, hvilken vei vi så enn følger.
Fridtjof Nansen
In English:
We are all explorers of life, which way we then follow.
Fridtjof Nansen.
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Steve took O
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
Sandra Day O’Connor
Thank you once again Lillian for nominating me for this challenge. I now pass the letter ‘P’ on to;
Renee at https://hearttokens.home.blog
Steve and Muffin.
Marvelous Monday!!
Happy Monday to all my readers on this beautiful, sunny morning! Even if it is a bit cool. Actually, it’s very cool, only 57F, 14C, this morning. That’s more like May should be, not July. Our weather just seems to get cooler every year. Especially that white season of the year that I really don’t like to talk about in the summer. However, it is still a beautiful morning. The sun is touching those emerald green leaves making them glow against the deep blue sky. That in itself makes this a beautiful day! And a real country pleasure, which can be enjoyed even in the city.
Beauty is all around us, we just need to open our eyes so we can see it. Usually on Monday people are feeling terrible because it’s back to work, back to school or whatever. But if we look around us carefully, we can see beauty everywhere. It could be a little weed poking up through a crack in the cement. That’s beautiful? Sure. It shows us that no matter how hard things get, we can still grow and bloom. That’s beautiful. It could be a little sparrow hopping around on the sidewalk looking for whatever bits of food it can find. It shows determination to not just survive, but thrive as well, no matter how hard things are in life. That’s beautiful.
Walking down a forest path I stopped to see a tiny wildflower. It was no bigger than the tip of a babies little finger. But there it was. Growing and blooming. And on that tiny flower, an even tinier flying insect getting nectar. Amazing things can come in small packages sometimes. That’s beautiful. A mother deer came by one morning with her fawn. That little fawn wasn’t more than a week old. Mama was a favorite deer of mine and she came over right away for her morning hug. The fawn stayed far away. I sat down on the grass. Mama made this soft gurgling sound and the fawn came slowly but steadily right over to me. When it was right beside me I let the little fawn sniff my hand. Mama stood tall and proud as she introduced her fawn to me. That’s beautiful. Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera at the time, would have made a wonderful picture.
I had a bird feeder one time right outside my window. At night a family of flying squirrels would come for food. The mother would regularly sit on my hand and I would bring her inside and give her peanuts. She enjoyed having her head and tummy rubbed. They have such amazingly soft and thick fur. One night the mother and both babies sat on my hand to eat. That’s beautiful.
Watching white puffy clouds floating across the sky on a summer day. Listening to the cooing of a dove in the early morning. Watching a bee as it travels from one flower to the next, getting itself covered with pollen. Seeing your garden growing day by day producing it’s abundance of vegetables, fruits or flowers. Watching an eagle soaring higher and higher until it’s finally out of sight. An elderly couple walking down the street holding hands. All of these things are beautiful.
We moan and groan about Monday. Why is that? Perhaps we need to stop and look at all the beauty around us. Perhaps we need to remember all the beautiful things we have seen in our lives. Perhaps we need to listen more closely, while we are outside, to all the beautiful sounds we can hear. Perhaps we need to stop complaining and start being thankful. That’s beautiful.
Well, I hope you have enjoyed, or are enjoying, your Monday. It’s a beautiful day. The sun is shining here, everything is so lush and green right now, there is so much life out there. That’s beautiful. So why waste so much time complaining? It wastes time, energy and always makes us feel bad. So what’s the point? Enjoy the beauty of your day instead, whatever day it is.
Thank you for reading again today, enjoy your day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
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