#happenstance — Public Fediverse posts
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“You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
“A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.”
“You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1891-08), “The Red-Headed League,” The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doyle #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes #sherlock #watson #redheadedleague #argument #coincidence #debate #doubt #facts #happenstance #imagination #oddness #reallife #reality #strangeness #unexpectedness #weirdness
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after all, you and
after all, you and
#afterAll #attempt #beautiful #comingUpon #committed #creatures #dailyPost #dayAfterDay #dayAfterDayAfterDayAfterDay #development #found #growing #happenstance #humanNature #inRelationship #messy #nature #poem #poetry #postaday #relationship #roses #seeEyeToEye #tanka #waka #youAndI
i are messy and beautiful
creatures, attempting
to see eye to eye, day after
day after day, committed
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20260602:2043
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after all, you and
after all, you and
#afterAll #attempt #beautiful #comingUpon #committed #creatures #dailyPost #dayAfterDay #dayAfterDayAfterDayAfterDay #development #found #growing #happenstance #humanNature #inRelationship #messy #nature #poem #poetry #postaday #relationship #roses #seeEyeToEye #tanka #waka #youAndI
i are messy and beautiful
creatures, attempting
to see eye to eye, day after
day after day, committed
.
20260602:2043
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A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes
trembles when it goes.
[Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae,
mutatae quatient.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/28181/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #adversity #badfortune #badluck #chance #change #coping #despair #elation #failure #fate #fortune #goodfortune #goodluck #happenstance #happiness #luck #mood #prosperity #resilience #success
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on to say, “Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?” The student of nature will only laugh at you; just as a carpenter or a shoemaker would laugh, if you found fault with the shavings and scraps from their work which you saw in the shop.
[Σίκυος πικρός; ἄφες. βάτοι ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ; ἔκκλινον. ἀρκεῖ, μὴ προσεπείπῃς: τί δὲ καὶ ἐγένετο ταῦτα ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ; ἐπεὶ καταγελασθήσῃ ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπου φυσιολόγου, ὡς ἂν καὶ ὑπὸ τέκτονος καὶ σκυτέως γελασθείης καταγινώσκων ὅτι ἐν τῷ ἐργαστηρίῳ ξέσματα καὶ περιτμήματα τῶν κατασκευαζομένων ὁρᾷς.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 8, ch. 50 (8.50) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8007…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #causes #divinepurpose #facts #happenstance #imperfection #meaning #problems #purpose #reasons #dealwithit
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A quotation from Robert Heinlein
Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Podkayne of Mars, ch. 5, Worlds of IF magazine (1962-11)More info about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/79…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertheinlein #robertaheinlein #heinlein #gettingold #growingold #happenstance #oldage
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People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Russian-American author, polymath, biochemist
Essay (1975-05), “The Planet That Wasn’t,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 48, No. 5Sourcing, notes: wist.info/asimov-isaac/9053/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #asimov #isaacasimov #coincidence #conspiracytheory #explanation #happenstance #probability
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My contribution to #FromOneLine 383 - 'It took two tubes of glue'.
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#vss365 - #happenstance
#WordedArt - #warp
#BlueSkyRelay - #beaver
DailyHaikuPrompt (though not a haiku) - cool morning / huddle
#WritingCommunity #poetry -
My contribution to #FromOneLine 383 - 'It took two tubes of glue'.
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#vss365 - #happenstance
#WordedArt - #warp
#BlueSkyRelay - #beaver
DailyHaikuPrompt (though not a haiku) - cool morning / huddle
#WritingCommunity #poetry -
'Glow' - #DailyPictureTheme
A low sun makes the maple glow.
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#vss365 - #happenstance
#WordedArt - #warp
#BlueSkyRelay - #beaver
#DailyHaikuPrompt - cool morning#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku
#KBFPhotography #MobilePhonePhotography #Photography
@dailyhaikuprompt
@vss365 @writingcommunity @poetry @haiku @photography -
'Glow' - #DailyPictureTheme
A low sun makes the maple glow.
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#vss365 - #happenstance
#WordedArt - #warp
#BlueSkyRelay - #beaver
#DailyHaikuPrompt - cool morning#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku
#KBFPhotography #MobilePhonePhotography #Photography
@dailyhaikuprompt
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took a while to grasp
the smouldering #happenstance
of our reunion#dailyhaikuprompt smouldering
#haikufeels #vss365 #haiku
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Laying in the gutter
writhing in pain
from yet another
kick in the groin
from that asshole FateSweet Epiphany kneels down
and whispers to defeated me
that my current
pathetic circumstance
ain't just a matter
of random #happenstanceA losing attitude
like I exhibit
attracts bad luck
like a frickin magnet -
Laying in the gutter
writhing in pain
from yet another
kick in the groin
from that asshole FateSweet Epiphany kneels down
and whispers to defeated me
that my current
pathetic circumstance
ain't just a matter
of random #happenstanceA losing attitude
like I exhibit
attracts bad luck
like a frickin magnet -
PLAN, v.t. To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Plan,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/75808…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accident #accomplishmentm #happenstance #methodology #plan #results
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⬆️ @kravietz
#UncannySimilarities in #FarmersProtest in #France, #India, and now #Poland, especially in timing, which does not seem coincidental at all ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111918731693136786
— First time it is #happenstance.
— Second time, it is #coincidence.
— Third time, it is #enemyAction.
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"But her emails"
— First time it is #happenstance.
"Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia" ➡️ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/fbi-russia-election-donald-trump.html
— Second time, it is #coincidence.
>> And meanwhile, the NYT covers its homepage with Biden-is-so-old FUD stories.
— Third time, it is #enemyAction.
