Cryptoquote Solved – 06/03/23

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.”   —   Mahatma Gandhi

(Don’t you just love Gandhi quotes?  So direct and uncomplicated!  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Solved – 06/02/23

“My mother shed [sic] her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value.”   —   Maya Angelou

(I don’t know . . . maybe Maya was already quite elderly when she said this.  It just comes off as addled.  I do see that the 3rd intransitive of the verb can mean: to pour out, but she could have just said that, or maybe used the word showered.  Great lady, but this was a miss for me.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Solved – 06/01/23

“Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies won’t believe you anyway.”   —   Elbert Hubbard

(I’m not sure that I agree with this.  At least not 100%.  First off; I don’t think my friends always understand me, and second; I like to think that – at least some of – my “enemies” can be reached, through reason and logic.  But, I’m pretty sure that we’ve had this quote before.   Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Solved – 05/31/23

“Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.”   —   Barbara Kingsolver

(Hopefully, that is just for a few things . . . and not for everything.  I remember hearing about a people out there – either somewhere in South America, or in some South Pacific island – where smiling is considered an aggressive act, because you’re bearing your teeth!  How natural is it – for most of us – to automatically smile upon meeting someone?  Wow!  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Solved – 05/30/23

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”   —   Miles Davis

(I’m not exactly sure what Miles is talking about, but I think – generally – that singers, and other musicians, try to emulate a certain performer/style, especially when they are starting out.  It takes some time to develop a sound that is you.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Solved – 05/29/23

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”   —   Winston Churchill

(I wonder how Winnie would feel about the “USA, USA, USA!” chant, which started with the 1980 Winter Olympics, when our hockey team beat the Czechs, but has since become so ubiquitous, and more than a little jingoistic?  I can’t imagine he’d approve of it.  We always used to be more of a humble people, pretty much welcomed all over the world.  Nowadays, most countries look at us with a very suspicious eye, and sometimes with utter disdain.  We should always be proud of our country, but we could all stand to be somewhat classier about it.  Strange comment for Memorial Day???  Maybe.  But we should be more introspective on the day where we remember – and appreciate – all those who gave their lives in service of our country.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Solved – 05/27/23

“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”   —   Nora Ephron

(Nora was responsible for some of the most popular movies of the 1980s and 1990s.  I particularly liked the movie “Michael”, starring John Travolta as the title archangel and an all-star cast that includes:  Andie MacDowell, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins, Jean Stapleton, Robert Pastorelli, Richard Schiff and . . . my favorite, Teri Garr.  It was easy to suspend belief watching this movie.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Solved – 05/26/23

“Open your eyes, look within.  Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”   —   Bob Marley

(All of us could do with being a little more introspective.  This quote is a lyric, and comes from the song “Exodus”, by Bob Marley and the Wailers, from way back in 1977.  Bob died nearly four years later, at the tender age of 36, from a rare form of malignant melanoma, which had spread to his brain and lungs.  But his music lives on.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Solved – 05/25/23

“You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”   —   Meryl Streep

( . . . or laundry, or vacuuming, or just about any other household chore.  Housework kind of sucks!  I always liked Meryl Streep.  Still do.  She’s never been a big hot, hoochie mama kind of actress, but she has a classic beauty that never seems to get old.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Solved – 05/24/23

“I am not a person to be pressured  –  by anybody or any nation.”   —   Indira Gandhi

(She was a tough woman.  She kinda had the forerunner of the David Koresh – Branch Davidian fiasco – in Waco, TX, with Operation Blue Star, in the Punjab region, in June of 1984.  But it was even deadlier, resulting in disputed casualties of some hundreds, to some thousands of Sikhs.  As a result she was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards a few months later.  It’s hard to believe, but this seems to be the first of her quotes used for a Cryptoquote.  So, we welcome Indira Gandhi – posthumously – to the Cryptoquote Club today.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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