61st list of 10 French songs you like

1.Quand on n'a que l'amour-Jacques Brel
2.L'Amour s'en va(1968)-Les Sultans
3.C'est le ska-Donald Lautrec
4.Et Maintenant-Les Classels(This is a version of the Sonny and Cher hit song 'WHAT NOW MY LOVE.')
5.Les Trois Cloches-Les Classels(This song is a French version of the 1959 Browns hit song'THE
THREE BELLS')
6.Ma Solitude-Georges Moustaki
7.L'Amour est mort-Gilbert Becaud
8.Ce soir on danse a Naziland-Nanette Workman
9.Nuit Magique(1986)-Catherine Lara
10.Monia(1968)-Michel Cogoni

Great Letter from THE FRESNO BEE

Sinking Fast
John McCain saying the fundamentals of the economy are strong is like the Titanic's captain saying not to worry because the passengers are good swimmers.-Greg Wilke,Fresno,Letter to editor,FRESNO BEE,SEPTEMBER 23,2008

Four good quotes

1.One writes to find words' meanings.-Joy Williams
2.Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.-Groucho Marx
3.Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason,and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.-Baruch Spinoza
4.The finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that which delays them.-British prime minister David Lloyd George,at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference

60th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Hier Encore-Charles Aznavour
2.Soleil-Michel Fugain
3.Le Picbois-Beau Dommage
4.Splish-Splash-Cesar et les Romains
5.Toi et moi-Cesar et les Romains
6.For me,formidable-Charles Aznavour
7.Et moi dans mon coin(1966)-Charles Aznavour
8.Emmenez-moi(au bout de la terre)-Charles Aznavour
9.Je t'aime bien-Les Sultans
10.Aimer d'amour(1978)-Boule Noire(Georges Thurston)

59th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Loin,loin de la ville-Boule Noire(featuring George Thurston)
2.Father on the Go-Kevin Parent
3.Pleurs dans la pluie-Mario Pelchat
4.Des milliards de personnes(2006)-Mario Pelchat
5.Ne fais pas ca(2004)-Paul Piche
6.Car je t'aime-Paul Piche
7.Comme Deux Enfants-Suzanne Stevens(not 'Entre Deux Enfants')
7. Y a les mots-Francine Raymond
8.I Lost My Baby-Jean Leloup
9.California-Robert Charlebois
10.Carole(1959)-Gilles Brown.(This song is a French version of the Neil Sedaka 1959 song 'CAROLE').

58th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Entre Deux Enfants(1974)-Suzanne Stevens
2.Angelique(1974)-Jean Nichol
3.Une Vague Bleue(1974)-Michele Torr
4.Pierrot et les cheveux-Le Coeur d'Une Generation
5.Balade en Bugatti-Michel Fugain
6.Fais comme l'oiseau(1971)-Michel Fugain
7.Les fleurs de mandarine-Michel Fugain
8.Attention,mesdames et messieurs(1972)-Michel Fugain
9.Bravo,monsieur le monde-Michel Fugain
10.Un Elephant sur Mon Balcon-Roger Whittaker

Two good quotes

1.The young man who has not wept is a savage,and the old man who has not laughed is a fool.-George Santayana
2.Many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery;some people are devils in their own right,their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.-Dean Koontz,ODD THOMAS.

Five great quotes

1.Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.-Elizabeth Lawrence
2.A memoir is how one remembers one's own life,while an autobiography is history,requiring research ,dates and facts double-checked.-Gore Vidal
3.People don't change when they see the light.They change when they feel the heat.-Adage,quoted in The New York Times
4.You will never be better than your own judgement ,and you will never be satisfied with what you do.Ambition will ,and should always outstrip achievement.-Fay Weldon
5.Man's unique reward,however,is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background,man survives by adjusting his background to himself.-Ayn Rand,FOR THE NEW INTELLECTUAL.

Three great quotes

1.Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.There has never been a really good one,and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary,criminal ,grasping and unintelligent.-H.L.Mencken
2.Law and its instrument,government,are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us,but all of us,unless we live the lives of mud turtles,frequently find them arrayed against us.-H.L Mencken
3.If you hear a voice within you say ,'' you cannot paint'',then by all means paint,and that voice will be silenced.-Vincent Van Gogh

Three great quotes

1.Fashion changes.Style remains.-Yves Saint Laurent
2.A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.-Mark Twain
3.Like its politicians and its wars,society has the teenagers it deserves.-J.B.Priestley

57th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Mexico-Kain
2.J'entends siffler le train-Richard Anthony
3.Rien n'est impossible-Nicole Martin
4.Embrasse-moi(1977)-Richard Anthony
5.Pierrot et les cheveux-Le Coeur d'une Generation
6.Je Reve a Rio-Robert Charlebois
7.Lindberg-Robert Charlebois
8.Je reviendrai a Montreal-Robert Charlebois
9.Miss Pepsi-Robert Charlebois(en duo with Sophie Tremblay)
10.Madame Bertrand-Robert Charlebois

Eight great quotes

1.A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man.In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he
becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.-H.L.Mencken
2.Patience is bitter,but its fruit is sweet.-Jean Jacques Rousseau
3.There is nothing fatherly about time and about what it does to us,either.-Dean Koontz,FOREVER ODD.
4.The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination,doesn't it?We're reminded
how thin is the veneer of civilisation.-Dean Koontz,ODD THOMAS.
5.No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune,and sloth is impervious to opportunity.-Dean Koontz,FOREVER ODD.
6.Many human beings need no spernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery;some people are devils in their own right,their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.-Dean Koontz,ODD THOMAS
7.One's certainty varies inversely with one's knowledge.-Bertrand Russell
8.The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels.For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed,and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.-Journalist H.L.Mencken

Two nice quotes

1.The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed-and hence clamorous to be led to safety-by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins ,all of them imaginary.-H.L.Mencken
2.It is not the employer who pays wages.He only handles the money.It is the product that pays wages.-Henry Ford

56th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Marchant dans la plaine(1967)-Les Bel-Air
2.Ordinaire(1970)-Robert Charlebois
3.Demain l'hiver-Robert Charlebois
4.Vol De Nuit-Celine Lomez
5.Sans les femmes(1970)-Celine Lomez
6.Mets un peu d'amour dans ta vie(1971)-Celine Lomez
7.Sur le bord de la mer(1968)-Jocelyne Pascal.(This song is a French version of the Cowsills 1968 hit song 'INDIAN LAKE')
8.Amene pas ta gang-Beau Dommage
9.La vie,l'amour et moi-Renee Martel.(This song is a French version of the Judy Collins hit song
'BOTH SIDES NOW.')
10.Pour toi,Pour toi-Michel Pagliaro

Seven great quotes

1.The less depth a belief system has,the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it.The most vociferous,the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.-Dean Koontz,FORVER ODD.
2.The contents of someone 's bookcase are part of his history,like an ancestral portrait.-Anatole Broyard
3.When I see books that I have read on library shelves,it is like running into an old friend on the street.I often take the book down and browse through it---Like friends,they have gone into making me whoever I am.-Kevin Starr
4.Blogs are Little First Amendment machines.-Jay Rosen
5.I have no special talent.I am only passionately curious.-Albert Einstein
6.It is the writer's privilege to lift hearts.The poet's voice doesn't just record life,it becomes a prop to help others endure and prevail.-William Faulkner
7.It is a person's duty to read.A library is not a luxury,but one of the necessities of life.-Henry Ward Beecher

A great blog I discovered

http://travelinoma.blogspot.com is a great blog I recently discovered(written by a librarian).

Nine great quotes

1.Man is in love and loves what vanishes.
What more is there to say?-William Butler Yeats
2.Writers write to influence their readers,their preachers,their auditors, but
always,at bottom,to be more themselves.-Aldous Huxley
3.Nothing so tests the character of an individual as the running of elections.-Winston Churchill
4.A personal website is like a refrigerator door that the whole world can look at.-James S.Huggins,www.jameshuggins.com
5.Man seems to be made neither to live alone nor with others.-Fulke Greville(1554-1628)
6.How much it takes to become a writer.Bent (far more than we assume),circumstances ,time,development of craft-but beyond that:how much conviction as to the importance of what one has to say,one's right to say it.-Tillie Olson
7.Recommend virtue to your children;it alone ,not money,can make them happy.I speak from experience.-Ludwig Van Beethoven
8.An education isn't how much you have committed to memory,or even how much you know.It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.-Anatole France,quoted in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
9.An alliance or coalition between government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against.-James Madison,in a letter to Edward Livingston in 1820.

55th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Aimes-tu la vie comme moi-Boule Noire
2.La Folie En Quatre-Daniel Belanger
3.La Fin de l'homme-Daniel Belanger
4.Le Mistral(1970)-Roger Whittaker
5.J'ai trouve l'amour(1970)-Chantal Pary
6.Aimez-le si fort(1971)-Ginette Reno
7.Les belles dames(1970)-Salvatore Adamo
8.Je l'ai jamais dit a personne-Etienne Drapeau
9.Seche tes pleurs-Daniel Belanger
10.Concepcion-Robert Charlebois

Website of great writer Judith Barrington

Visit the website of Oregon writer Judith Barrington writer at www.judithbarrington.com

Three good quotes

1.The recognition of pain and fear in others gives rise in us to pity,and in our pity is our humanity,our redemption.-Dean Koontz,VELOCITY
2.A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.-James Madison
3.Knowledge will forever govern ignorance;and a people who mean to be their own opinions must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.-James Madison

54th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Embarque ma Belle-Kain
2.Viens Changer ma vie-Renee Martel
3.Un Gars Comme Toi-Renee Claude
4.Viens Faire un Tour Chez Moi-Renee Claude
5.Au bout des rails-Joe Dassin(This song is a French version of the 1970 Neil Diamond song 'CRACKLING ROSIE')
6.Embarque ma Belle-Kain
7.T'es Belle-Jeam-Pierre Ferland
8.Comme Dans Le Temps-Kain
9.Qu'est-ce que ca peut bien faire?-Eric Lapointe
10.Je suis le Meme-Garou

Ten great quotes

1.The president has only 190 million bosses.The Vice president has 190 million and one.-US president Hubert Humphrey
2.I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.-Ken Kesey,THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST.
3.We had seen the light at the end of the tunnel,and it was out.-John C.Clancy
4.The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.-Henry James,THE AMBASSADORS
5.Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself,to multiply the ways in which he exists,to make his life full,significant and interesting.-Aldous Huxley
6.Dum spiro spero(While I breathe,I hope).-South Carolina state motto
7.The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusion of knowledge.-Daniel Boorstin
8.The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us,leaving on the canvas a less dark,less sharp version of the truth.-Dean Koontz,FOREVER ODD
9.Wealth is power,and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.-Dean Koontz,BROTHER ODD
10.The snow did not even whisper its way to earth,but seemed to salt the night with silence.-Dean Koontz,BROTHER ODD.

53rd list of 10 French songs you like

1.Petite Marie-Francis Cabrel
2.Dans la vie tout s'arrange-Ginette Reno
3.En ecoutant Elton John(1972)-Diane Dufresne
4.J'ai besoin d' un chum-Diane Dufresne
5.A bord d' Un Apollo(1968)-Vicky Leandros
6.Apres toi(1972)-Vicky Leandros
7.Le temps des fleurs(1968)-Vicky Leandros(This song is a French version of the 1968 song 'THOSE WERE THE DAYS' by Mary Hopkin)
8.Monsieur Cannibale-Sacha Distel
9.Cauchemard-Robert Charlebois
10.Les ailes d' un ange-Robert Charlebois

An interesting blog

http://followmetokorea.blogspot.com is an interesting blog.

Two websites of great journalists

1 www.trevorcole.com -Trevor Cole is a Toronto journalist and writer.
2 www.michaelspecter.com -Michael Specter was a reporter for THE NEW YORK TIMES.He has also written articles for The New Yorker

10 great quotes

1.Like all of us in this storm between birth and death,I can wreak no great changes on the world,only small changes for the better,I hope,in the lives of those I love.-Dean Koontz
2.Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith,a wager that against all odds there will be a future,that love can last,that the heart can triumph against all adversaries and even against the grinding wheel of time.-Dean Koontz,FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE.
3.I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point,I believe in our need for them.-Dean Koontz
4.When life hands us a beautiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.-Dean Koontz
5.Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.-Dean Koontz
6.Life doesn't imitate art,it imitates bad television.-Woody Allen
7.All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.-Martin Luther King,JR.
8.This world,which has the potential to be Eden,is instead the hell before Hell.In our arrogance,we have made it so.-Dean Koontz,FOREVER ODD.
9.Savor the warmth of every sun-filled day,and the chill wind of every raging storm,weeds as much as flowers,the bitter and the sweet.-Dean Koontz
10.Moments of extreme terror bring back the gestures of your youth.-Dean Koontz

52nd list of 10 French songs you love

1.Provocante-Marjo
2.Je sais,tu sais-Marjo
3.Tu vivras toujours dans mon coeur-Ginette Reno
4.Vous permettez,monsieur-Salvatore Adamo
5.On ira tous au paradis(1972)-Michel Polnareff
6.Ailleurs-Marjo
7.Danser sur la lune-Marilou
8.Partir pour Acapulco-Diane Dufresne
9.Un jour il viendra mon amour(1969)-Diane Dufresne
10.Tu me fais flipper-Diane Dufresne

Seven great quotes

1.Writing a novel is like making love,but it's also like having a tooth pulled.Pleasure and pain.Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.-Dean Koontz
2.Some lives,conducted with grace,are building arcs bridging this world to eternity.-Dean Koontz,ODD THOMAS
3.Only time conquers time and its burdens.-Dean Koontz,BROTHER ODD
4.Humanity is a parade of fools,and I am at the front of it,twirling a baton.-Dean Koontz,BROTHER ODD
5.A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate.I think there are some politicians with higher goals.But all of them get corrupted by power.-Dean Koontz
6.There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist,except an old optimist.-Mark Twain
7.Free men are the strongest men.-Wendell Wilkie

Five good quotes

1.When tempest tossed,embrace chaos.-Dean Koontz
2.The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap,and every time piece
with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.-Dean Koontz
3.A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.-Dean Koontz
4.Human beings can always be relied upon to exert,with vigor,their God-given right to be stupid.-Dean Koontz
5.You don't write because you want to say something;you write because you have something to say.-F.Scott Fitzgerald

51st list of 10 French songs you like

1.Une fleur,rien qu'une rose-Crazy Horse
2.Laisse aller la musique(1973)-Stone et Charden
3.Aimer a perdre la raison(1971)-Jean Ferrat
4.Les Anges Dansent-Laurence Jalbert
5.Mia Amore-Nicolas Ciccone
6.Pour cet Amour-Marie Elaine Thibert
7.Un Ange qui passe-Annie Villeneuve
8.Vagabondo-Nicolas Ciccone
9.Tombee a l'eau-Annie Villeneuve
10.De l'autre cote de moi-Francis Cabrel

Two great websites about veganism

1 www.veganfabulous.com
2 http://meganthevegan.blogspot.com

50th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Si j'etais-Richard Cocciante
2.Les p'tites femmes de Pigalle-Serge Lama
3.Je suis malade-Serge Lama
4.Tomber-Laurence Jalbert
5.Simplicite-Serge Lama
5.Avec simplicite-Serge Lama
6.Tout pres du bonheur-Marc Dupre
7.Les Etoiles Filantes-Les Cowboys Fringants
8.Rien qu'un ciel(1972)-Il Etait Une Fois
9.Nous serons six milliards-Nicolas Ciccone
10.Ciao bella-Nicolas Ciccone

49th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Le Frigidaire-Tex Lecor
2.Pas besoin de frapper-Sylvain Cossette
3.Sous Le Vent-Garou et Celine Dion
4.Je t'aime tout court-Nicolas Ciccone
5.Dans Chacun de mes silences-Marie Elaine Thibert
6.Prendre Un Enfant parLa Main-Yves Duteil
7.Au Nom De La Raison-Laurence Jalbert
8.Evidemment-Laurence Jalbert
9.La Rue Principale-Les Colocs
10.La Complainte du phoque en Alaska-Beau Dommage

48th list of French songs you love

1.Je suis folle de vous(1967)-Marie Laforet
2.Le showbusiness-Jean-Pierre Ferland
3.Si je savais parler aux femmes-Jean-Pierre Ferland
3.Do wha diddy diddy(1965)-Tony Roman
4.Comme un garcon(1968)-Chantal Renaud
5.Vendredi m'obsede-Les Hou-Lops.
6.Blue jeans sur la plage-Les Hou-Lops
7.J'aurai mon tour de chance-Renee Martel
8.Comme j'ai toujours envie d'aimer(1970)-Marc Hamilton
9.D'ou que tu viennes(1973)-Patrick Norman
10.Romantique Avec Toi(1975)-Alain Delorme

47th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Splish Splash-Cesar et les Romains
2.Mon Ange(1965)-Gilles Brown
3.Motel''Mon repos''-Beau Dommage(This song has the famous line 'Dans un motel de l'ile Perrot')
4.Chewy Chewy(1969)-Steve Fiset
5.Quand j'ecoute la radio-Patrick Zabbe(This is the French version of the CCR song'LOOKING OUT MY BACKDOOR')
6.Arizona-Steve Fiset
7.Embrasse-moi(1969)-Renee Martel. (This song is a French version of the song 'BE MY BABY' by The Ronettes)
7.Un garcon en mini-jupe-Karo
8.T'aurais pas du mourir si jeune(1967)-Johnny Farago
9.Message personnel(1974)-Francoise Hardy
10.Emmene-moi danser ce soir(1978)-Michele Torr(This song has the line 'Aujord' hui ca fait six ans qu'on est marie')

Ten great quotes and proverbs

1.Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.-Spanish proverb
2.Freedom is not an ideal,it is not even a protection,if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate,to live without dreams,to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.-U.S.politician Adlai Stevenson,1960
3.Nature teaches more than she preaches.There are no sermons in stones.-John Burroughs
4.When they tell you to grow up,they mean stop growing.-Tom Robbins
5.Honest criticism is hard to take,particularly from a relative,a friend,an acquaintance or a stranger.-Franklin P.Jones
6.Where liberty dwells,there is my country.-Benjamin Franklin
7.Money is flat and meant to be piled.-New England saying
8.The well-adjusted make poor prophets.-Eric Hoffer
9.Don't walk behind me;I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me;I may not follow.Just walk beside me and be my friend.-Albert Camus
10.Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts,the moonless midnight of the mind.-Dean Koontz

Five more great quotes

1.It's hard to argue against cynics-they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.-Molly Ivins
2.Being a cynic is so contemptibly easy,----you don't have to invest anything in your work.No effort,no pride,no compassion,no sense of excellence,nothing.-Molly Ivins
3.I still believe in Hope-mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed,Arkansas.-Molly Ivins
4.Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one,and where the man of talent sees two or three.-Ezra Pound
5.You've got to have fun while you're fighting for freedom,'cause you don't always win.-Molly Ivins

Seven great quotes

1.Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.-Molly Ivins(1944-2007)
2.You can't ignore politics,no matter how much you'd loke to.-Molly Ivins
3.In the first place,any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged:The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.-Molly Ivins
4.I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that noone knows the truth.-Molly Ivins
5.Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant-it tends to get worse.-Molly Ivins
6.Be as smart as you can,but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.-Alan Alda
7.The thing about democracy,beloveds,is that it is not neat,orderly or quiet.It requires a relish for confusion.-Molly Ivins

A quintet of interesting quotes

1.There are no elitist people,there are only elitist ideas.-Jonathan Miller,doctor,Cambridge wit and TV director
2.The reality of love is mutilated when it is removed from all its unreality.-Gaston Bachelard, in his book 'THE POETICS OF REVERIE'.
3.Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?-T.S.Elot,in 1934
4.Memory is more indelible than ink.-Anita Loos
5.Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy?I don't know and I don't care.-William Safire

Five great quotes

1.The office of president is a bastardized thing,half royalty and half democracy,that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.-Jimmy Breslin
2.When you throw dirt,you lose ground.-Texan proverb
3.There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.-Anonymous,according to www.horoscope.com
of September 8,2008.
4.We have art in order not to perish of truth.-Nietzsche
5.The reality of love is mutilated when it is removed from all its unreality.-Gaston Bachelard in his book THE POLITICS OF REVERIE

Savage killing of vegetarian campaigner Geetaben Rachiya

In August 1993,two butchers dragged campaigning vegetarian Geetaben Rachiya,33,from a motorised trishaw in the western Indian city of Ambavati and hacked her to death with meat cleavers,blaming her campaign against mutton for a fall in business.-Source-CANBERRA TIMES,AUGUST 30,1993.
I hope the killers of Geetaben Rachiya were severely punished by the law.

Eight great quotes

1.Government is like Junior High.Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute .-Jonathan Kellerman
2.Anything that's great takes a lot,a lot,a lot of work.-Faye Kellerman
3.Action is always better than rumination.-Faye Kellerman
4.A lot of things can promote creativity,but if you have the creative drive.-Faye Kellerman
5.How could I possibly overthrow the government when I can't even keep my dog down.-Dorothy Parker
6.When a child is born,so are grandmothers.-Judith Levy
7.If every fool wore a crown,we should all be kings.-Welsh proverb
8.Critics:pigs at a pastry cart.-John Updike

Ten great hit English songs that are rarely played on North American radio stations and that you would like to hear much more often:

1.Alfie(1966)-Cher
2.Robbing the Cradle(1959)-Tony Bellus
3.I Wouldn't Trade You For the World(1965)-The Bachelors
4.You Only Live Twice(1967)-Nancy Sinatra
5.Close to Cathy(1962)-Mike Clifford
6.18 Yellow Roses(1963)-Bobby Darin
7.Washington Square(1963)-The Village Stompers
8.The Push and the Kick-Mark Valentino
9.Music to Watch Girls by(1967)-Andy Williams
10.On the Way Home-The Beatles

Seven great quotes

1.As far as I'm concerned,I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.-Albert Einstein
2.When you see a palm tree,the palm tree has seen you.-African(Wolof) proverb
3.I ain't a communist,necessarily.But I been in the red all my life.-Woody Guthrie
4.Life has got a habit of not standing hitched.You got to ride it like you find it.You got to change with it.If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones,that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.-Woody Guthrie
5.If we would just take the profit out of war,there wouldn't be any.-Woody Guthrie
6.You might say that Wall Street is the street that keeps you off Easy Street.-Woody Guthrie
7.People are always talking about originality;but what do they mean?As soon as we are born,the world begins to work upon us,and this goes on to the end.What can we call our own except energy,strength and will?If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries,there would be but a small balance in my favour.-Goethe

Four great quotes

1.In the sense that there was nothing before it,all writing is writing against the void.-Mark Strand
2.The capacity to be puzzled is---the premise of all creation,be it in art or in science.-Erich Fromm
3.If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference,don't lose heart-the sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak,yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.-Edu Francisco Teixeira
4.When marrying,ask yourself this question:Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age?Everything else in marriage is transitory.-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Good blog on Barcelona

Visit the blog http://barcelonamoments.blogspot.com

Three great quotes

1.Man is fond of counting his troubles,but he does not count his joys.If he counted them up as he ought to,he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2.Don't use time or words carelessly.Neither can be retrieved.-Anonymous
3.The invention of television can be compared to the introduction of indoor plumbing.Fundamentally it brought no change in the public's habits.It simply eliminated the necessity of leaving the house.-Alfred Hitchcock

Seven great quotes and proverbs

1.The sobbing wind is fierce and strong;
its cry is like a human wail.-Susan Coolidge
2.The difference between school and life?In school,you're taught a lesson and then given a test.In life,you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.-Tom Bodett
3.Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in 20,and learning teacheth safely,when experience maketh more miserable than wise---It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.-Roger Ascham(1515-1568) in THE SCHOOLMASTER
4.Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will,in general,become of no more value than their dress.-William Hazlitt(1778-1830)
5.Success doesn't spoil me;I've always been insufferable.-Fran Lebowitz
6.Great and good are seldom the same man.-Winston Churchill
7.Dare everyday to be irreverent and bold.-Gordon Webber

46th list of 10 French songs you love

1.Mexico(1968)-Les Mersey's.(This song is a French version of the Van Morrison song 'BROWN-EYED GIRL.')
2.Je suis ton ami(1971)-Steve Fiset
3.Les Amours d'ete(1971)-Johnny Farago
4.Mon roman d'amour(1971)-Renee Martel
5.Attention la vie est courte(1971)-Pierre Lalonde
6.Rien n'est impossible(1963)-Robert Demontigny
7.Le Chemin du Soleil(1971)-Donald Lautrec
8.Un garcon viendra(1971)-Mimi Hetu(This song is a French version of the 1970 song 'MY BABY LOVES LOVING' by White Plains)
9.La Boheme-Charles Aznavour
10.La la la(1968)-Renee Martel.