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TWBANKGC Thought 1/6/2026 A Word on Statistics, by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak Out of Every Hundred People those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: almost all the rest. Ready to help, if it doesn’t take long: forty-nine. Always good, because they cannot be otherwise: four—well, maybe five. Able to admire without envy: eighteen. Led to error by youth (which passes): sixty, plus or minus. Those not to be messed with: forty and four. Living in constant fear of someone or something: seventy-seven. Capable of happiness: twenty-some-odd at most. Harmless alone, turning savage in crowds: more than half, for sure. Cruel when forced by circumstances: it’s better not to know, not even approximately. Wise in hindsight: not many more than wise in foresight. Getting nothing out of life except things: thirty (though I would like to be wrong). Doubled over in pain and without a flashlight in the dark: eighty-three, sooner or later. Those who are just: quite a few at thirty-five. But if it takes effort to understand: three. Worthy of empathy: ninety-nine. Mortal: one hundred out of one hundred— a figure that has never varied yet.
January 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 1/5/2026 “The drummer’s main function is to exert enough energy and emotion on the other people in the band to force them to play above their heads.” ~Buddy Rich “The drums are a language, not a weapon. It’s about rhythm, about feeling.” ~John Bonham ….12th Day of Christmas…
January 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 1/4/2026 “Into the streets the Piper stepped, smiling first a little smile, as if he knew what magic slept in his still pipe all the while, for there his secret spells were kept. Then blowing soft, his lips he wrinkled, and green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, like candle flames where salt is sprinkled.” ~Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin “There used to be a bloke who played the pipes in Hampstead Heath, probably still does. When taken to court, because everyone knows that the by-laws at HH outlaw the playing of any musical instrument! Rumour has it that he got away with playing in the park because the bagpipe is not actually a musical instrument, but an instrument of war - particularly when played badly! This piper plays very nicely and was then allowed to practice in the park once a week.” ~Gitika Partington …11 Pipers Piping…
January 4, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 1/3/2026 “I’ve been in the game for years, it made me an animal. It’s rules to this, I wrote me a manual. A step by step booklet for you to get your game on track, not your wig pushed back.” ~The Notorious B.I.G., Ten Crack Commandments, Album: Life After Death “Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.” ~H. L. Mencken …10th Day of Christmas…
January 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 1/2/2026 “She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined.” ~Erin Hanson “Our job is to be fruit holders--fruit bearers vs. fruit producers.” ~Marnie Swedberg, Flow Through Vessel …Nine Ladies Dancing…
January 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought of 1/1/2026 “When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.” ~Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall “Katarina smiled wistfully. ‘Do not heed me, I speak nonsense, I am sure.’ Maria blinked slowly, then shook her head. ‘No, I think if it matters to you, then it is probably not nonsense. You are not one to speak nonsense. Perhaps you have just not found it yet.’” ~Emily E.K. Murdoch, Eight Maids a Milking Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/31/2025 “True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who does not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently.” ~Ernest Agyemang Yeboah “I’m telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There’s just no way to really prepare for that.” ~Jim Benton, Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers …7 Swans a Swimming...
December 31, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/30/2025 “One time seven geese were walking towards me in a V, with the biggest Killer Duck marching point. They saw me as weak and moved to attack formation. But my Karate Hands were too knife-like to be an easy TV dinner.” ~Jarod Kintz, BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight “Then the geese replaced themselves with six pigs and vanished.” ~Diana Wynne Jones, Dark Lord of Derkholm …on the 6th Day of Christmas...
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/29/2025 “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ~Leviticus 19:18 “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.” ~G.K. Chesterton 
…5 Golden Rings!
December 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/28/2025 “As for the meaning, well, any bird must open its mouth before it sings, but if you check out any video on-line of Japanese bush warblers singing in the wild, you’ll notice that these birds will always slightly open their mouths, pause, and then open wide to belt out with their notes. I’d imagine they first open up to gulp air into their lungs, enabling them to get the unusual volume of sound they produce.” ~James Karkoski, The Haiku Experiment in re: Yosano Buson, Warbler Mouth Opening “Ok. It’s possible that birds may sing just for the joy of it.” ~Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation …on the Fourth Day of Christmas…
December 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/27/2025 “People anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.” ~Abraham Lincoln “Not every hen lays eggs. Not every hen that lays eggs gets them hatched. Not everyone born with greatness becomes as such. Go, hatch your eggs.” ~Israelmore Ayivor …Three French Hens...
December 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/25/2025 “Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. “On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree…”. ~Mirth Without Mischief, Anonymous MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
December 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/24/2025 “Jack believed in something—he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there were better things in the woods. He believed in palaces of ice and hearts to match. Hazel had, too. Hazel had believed in woodsmen and magic shoes and swanskins and the easy magic of a compass. She had believed that because someone needing saving they were savable. She had believed in these things, but not anymore. And this is why she had to rescue Jack, even though he might not hear what she had to tell him.” ~Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs “And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent…” ~Taylor Caldwell
December 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/22/2025 “‘Did you eat something that didn’t agree with you?’ asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. ‘I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,’ he added in a lower tone, ‘I ate my own wickedness.’” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “I hope you have the courage to do the hard work. I hope you have the courage to sit down with your demons, to befriend them; to look them in the face and to not feel fear. I hope you have the courage to stop picking or numbing or avoiding the wounds within, and I hope you choose to heal them instead. I hope you have the courage to understand yourself, fundamentally — to open up the deepest, darkest parts of your mind, to unhinge your ribcage revealing the gritty parts of your soul, the parts no one else claps for, and I hope you have the courage to clean them out.” ~Bianca Sparacino, A Gentle Reminder
December 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/20/2025 “Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately. …Next, in another cage I confined…not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.” ~Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings “The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.” ~Jean Renoir
December 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/19/2025 “There is something sad about people going to bed… I’d seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I’d better go out, I said to myself, I’d better go out again. Maybe I’ll meet Robinson. Naturally that was an idiotic idea, but I dreamed it up as an excuse for going out again…” ~Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night “Who said nights were for sleep?” ~Marilyn Monroe
December 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/16/2025 “Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it’s usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is ‘fairy lights,’ which we boringly refer to as ‘Christmas lights.’” ~Sloane Crosley “The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.” ~Jorge Luis Borges
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/10/2025 “They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.” ~Gordon Ramsay “We have two lives, and the second one begins when we realize we only have one.” ~Confucius
December 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/9/2025 “Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.” ~Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco “I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.” ~Joseph Addison
December 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/7/2025 “The highest power is the human mind. That’s where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.” ~Morgan Freeman “Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the “Trusting Mindset.” ~John Eliot
December 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/6/2025 “Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won’t be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the bout, And by the time this year came round, We’d all be free, and safe and sound. Still, let’s not forget it’s St. Nicholas Day, Though we’ve nothing left to give away. We’ll have to find something else to do: So everyone please look in their shoe!” ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 12/4/2025 “His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.” ~Patricia Briggs, Hunting Ground “And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.” ~Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks
December 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 11/27/2025 “It’s part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential of being shot, at any time, by a semiautomatic weapon as we try to go about the most boring, precious, asinine aspects of our daily lives.” ~Monica Hesse “I know it’s not pretty, but…it’ll get you where you want to go.” ~Del Griffith, Planes Trains and Automobiles HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 11/25/2025 “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” ~Galbraith’s Law “The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind…” ~Katharine Whitehorn
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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TWBANKGC Thought 11/24/2025 “When they judge you, yawn. When they misunderstand you, smile. When they underestimate you, laugh. When they condemn you, ignore. When they envy you, rejoice. When they oppose you, prevail.” ~Matshona Dhliwayo “What we believe, we be-live.” ~Ben G. Price, Ogden: A Tale for the End of Time
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM