Quote from Dan Simmons

The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil.The victims remain the faceless masses.Numbers.Mass graves.These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces---and voices.-Dan Simmons

Quote from Leonard Michaels

Of mystery there is no end.Of clarity,there is precious little.-Leonard Michaels

Quote from Ovid

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.-Ovid

222nd list of 10 French songs you like

1.Un Certain Sourire-Henri Salvador
2.Je Ferai Un Jardin-Renée Claude
3.Tout-Lara Fabian
4.Les Murs-Lara Fabian
5.Si Tu M'Aimes-Lara Fabian
6.Fais Moi Une Place-Francoise Hardy
7.Vivre Au Soleil-Nana Mouskouri
8.Si Tu Voulais-Alain Morisod et Sweet People
9.Les Nuits Sont Trop Longues-Suzanne Stevens
10.Par Amour-Nana Mouskouri

Quote from Plautus

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.-Plautus

Quote from George Orwell

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it,and wiser than the one that comes after it.-George Orwell

Quote from William Alger

False eloquence is exaggeration;true eloquence is emphasis.-William Alger

221st list of 10 French songs you like

1.Petite Fleur-Henri Salvador
2.C'est Ma Vie-Julio Iglesias
3.Il Suffirait de Presque Rien -Isabelle Boulay
4.Luxembourg-Simon.(This song has the line,'Luxembourg,Le Soleil est Toujours chez toi')
5.Notre Amour n'est plus qu'une habitude(1974)-Michel Stax
6.Helene-Julien Clerc
7.Fascination-Diane Dufresne
8.Le Temps Qu'il nous reste-Alain Morisod
9.Prends Bien Soin D'Elle-Claude Barzotti
10.La Petite Fille de 73-C.Jerome

Quote on evil

Evil is no faceless stranger,living in a distant neighborhood.Evil has a wholesome,hometown face with merry eyes and an open smile.Evil walks among us,wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.-Dean Koontz

Quote from Russell Sherman

Through music time is tamed,although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.-Russell Sherman

Quote from Patrick Rothfuss

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter,and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.-Patrick Rothfuss

Quote from Dennis Prager

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.-Dennis Prager

Quote on children

It takes so little to make a child happy,that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things,that there should be any wistful faces,empty hands,or lonely little hearts.-Louisa May Alcott

Quote on the high road

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nosebleed,in which case you have to get off the high road.-Tim Gunn

Quote from Maggie O' Farrell

That's because they're of the past.All photos of the past look melancholy and wistful precisely because they capture something that's gone.-Maggie O' Farrell

Quote on taste

You have no control over other people's taste,so focus on staying true to your own.-Tim Gunn

Message seen on a T-shirt

Be your own kind of beautiful.-Message I saw on a T-shirt today

Quote from Tim Gunn

Life is a collaboration,it's not a solo act.-Tim Gunn

Quote from Tim Gunn

Remember,channel your inner winner.-Tim Gunn(born 1953)

Message seen on T-shirt

Stressed?Devour your enemies.-Message I saw on a t-shirt

Quote from Otto Van Bismarck

When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.-Otto Van Bismarck

Quote from David Walters

An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes.An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.-David Walters

Quote from George Gershwin

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.-George Gershwin

Quote from Harold Arlen

Music doesn't argue,discuss,or quarrel.It just breathes the air of freedom.-Harold Arlen(1905-1986),music composer

Quote from Alan Alda

The best things said come last.People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.-Alan Alda

Quote from Jarod Kintz

I don't need love.I live in a forest.The quiet is my companion.The cold is my warmth.My heart once suffered from frostbite,but I removed and replaced it with a fuel pump.-Jarod Kintz

Quote from Jay Leno

Go through your phone book,call people and ask them to drive you to the airport.The ones who will drive you are your true friends.The rest aren't bad people,they're just acquaintances.-Jay Leno

Quote from Aviva Kaufman

At times,challenges hit with the force of a roaring,rushing waterfall.The true test however,is whether you can put your arms up and enjoy the feel of the water.-Aviva Kaufman

Quote from Sherrilyn Kenyon

You're selfish and you're cold,and I'm tired of getting frostbite when I touch you.(Acheron)-Sherrilyn Kenyon

Quote from Marita Bonner

What's the use of working if it doesn't get you anywhere?What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm?Making the hole bigger to stay in?-Marita Bonner(1899-1971),writer

Bombinate

Bombinate-To make a humming or buzzing noise

Limerence

Limerence-The state of being infatuated with another person

Bookshops

Vellichor-The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Quote on language policy

We have room but for one language here and that is the English language,for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.-Theodore Roosevelt,American president.

Quote on speed

Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.-William P.Driscoll

Quote from Leslie Lamport

Mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your writing is.-Leslie Lamport

Quote from James Arthur

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.-James Arthur

Quote from Ivan Sutherland

It's not an idea until you write it down.-Ivan Sutherland

Quote from Fanny Fern

I am getting sick of people.I am falling in love with things.They hold their tongues.-Fanny Fern(1811-1872)

Quote from Gwendolyn Bennett

All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of death.-Gwendolyn B.Bennett

Quote from Fanny Fern

There are no little things.Little things are the hinges of the universe.-Fanny Fern(1811-1872),columnist.

Quote from Gwendolyn Bennett

Silence is a sounding thing,to one who listens hungrily.-Gwendolyn Bennett

Quote from Laiko Bahrs

When baking,follow directions.When cooking,go by your own taste.-Laiko Bahrs

Quote from Charles Bukowski

Are there good governments and bad governments?No,there are only bad governments and worse governments.-Charles Bukowski,THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN TOWN &OTHER STORIES

Quote from Irving Fisher

Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes.In the end one of these powers will rule.Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy,or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy.-Irving Fisher(1867-1947),economist.

Quote from Ethan Canin

It's  the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic,to just make the reader feel.-Ethan Canin

Quote from Julia Ward Howe

Disarm,disarm.The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.Blood does not wipe out dishonor,nor violence indicate possession.-Julia Ward Howe

A brand of olive oil you consumed in April 2017

In April 2017,you bought and finished consuming a 1 Litre glass bottle of LESIEUR  extra-virgin olive oil.(Since 1908)(Cold Extracted Oil)-A product of France.
                       This olive oil was good.You do not consume olive oil from France very often.Visit the website www.lesieur.com

Quote on the weaker sex

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.-Ogden Nash

Interesting quote from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In poor countries,officials receive explicit bribes;in D.C. they get the sophisticated,implicit,unspoken promise to work for large corporations.-Nassim Nicholas Taleb,THE BED OF PROCRUSTES:PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL APHORISMS.

Quote from Mehmet Murat Ildan

Instead of politicians,let the monkeys govern the countries;at least they will steal only the bananas!-Mehmet Murat Ildan

Quote from Steven Magee

Behind the façade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.-Steven Magee

Quote from Kenneth Eade

The government wields a heavy hand,which is often used in an underhanded way.-Kenneth Eade,THE SPY FILES.

Message I saw on a T-shirt today

Exist to be happy,not to impress.-Message I saw on a T-shirt today

Quote on Joan of Arc

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.-Charles Bukowski,FACTOTUM.

Quote from Bill Moyers

Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block,subject to the highest bidder.-Bill Moyers

Quote from Jim Cramer

Oligopoly,plutocracy,kleptocracy:All things that are good for a shareholder.-Jim Cramer

Quote from Ralph Nader

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.-Ralph Nader

Quote from H.L.Mencken

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is,after all,itself a civil war.Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.-H.L.Mencken

Interesting quote from Merle Haggard

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want.It makes more money.-Merle Haggard

Quote from Sinclair Lewis

Men die,but the plutocracy is immortal;and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.-Sinclair Lewis

Quote from William Graham Sumner

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.-William Graham Sumner,WHAT SOCIAL CLASSES OWE TO EACH OTHER.

Great quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no fixtures in nature.The universe is fluid and volatile.Permanence is but a word of degrees.Our globe seen by God is a transparent law,not a mass of facts.The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Jonathan Swift

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile;esteem without love is languid and cold.-Jonathan Swift

Quote from Philip Roth

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed,so volatile markets tend to be on the downside.In up markets,volatility tends to gradually decline.-Philip Roth

Interesting quote from Franklin Foer

It's the most familial-based societies where the sense of obligation is strongest,that breed the worst nepotism and cronyism.-Franklin Foer

Quote from Adam Bellow

Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion.-Adam Bellow

Quote from George Santayana

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss;volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.-George Santayana

Quote from Benjamin Constant

We are such volatile creatures,we finally feel sentiments we feign.-Benjamin Constant

Quote from Lena Horne

A little nepotism never hurt nobody,honey.If you got it,use it.Press on with it.Remind them of it.-Lena Horne

Quote on grief

Grief and passion make a volatile mix.-Marianne Curley

Quote on the past

The past is malleable and flexible,changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.-P.L.Berger

Quote on Hollywood

Youth and nepotism,the twin horsemen of Hollywood!-Susan Dunlap

Quote on the past

The past is malleable and flexible,changing as our reconnection interprets and re-explains what has happened.-P.L.Berger

Quote on virtue

Virtue in this world should be malleable.-Voltaire

Quote on nepotism

Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.-Adam Bellow

Quote from Shannon L.Alder

The only person worth being in your life is a person that will never make you feel like you are worthless.-Shannon L.Alder

Quote on cities

Cities are not static objects to be feared or admired,but are instead a living process that residents are changing all the time.-Annalee Newitz

Quote on habits

Habits,scientists say,emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.-Charles Duhigg

Quote from Nicholas Sparks

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable,our perceptions of it are malleable.-Nicholas Sparks

Quote on America

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.-Charles Duhigg(born 1974),NEW YORK TIMES reporter and writer

Quote on jazz

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable.People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.-Pat Metheny

Quote on romance

Romance is the literature of hope.-Damon Suede

Quote from Charles Duhigg

Once you break a habit into its components,you can fiddle with the gears.-Charles Duhigg

Dietary tidbit about Warren Buffett

Multibillionaire investor Warren Buffett is 86 in 2017 and is still going strong.He has revealed in interviews to the media that he been drinking Coca Cola five times every day for many years.
                                   So much for soft drinks being bad for your health.

Quote from Sara Gruen

Must protect my little pockets of happiness.-Sara Gruen

Quote from Scott Hutchins

Artists are always the Johnny Applesseds of gentrification.-Scott Hutchins

Quote on gentrification

Gentrification is a form of immigration,though almost nobody calls it that.-Annalee Newitz

Quote on diplomacy

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic soundbite on television.-Douglas Hurd

Quote from Edward Abbey

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.-Edward Abbey

Great slogan I saw on a bike

Burn fat,not oil.-Slogan I saw on a bike

Quote from Thomas Szasz

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time;serenity ,that nothing is.-Thomas Szasz

Quote from George Orwell

It is fatal to look hungry.It makes people want to kick you.-George Orwell(1903-1950),DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON

Quote from Lance Conrad

Curiosity is the hunger of the mind.-Lance Conrad,THE PRICE OF LOYALTY.

Quote from Felix Frankfurter

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends,not a game of chess.-Felix Frankfurter(1882-1965)

Quote on litigation

Litigation should be a last resort,not a knee-jerk reflex.-Irving S.Shapiro

Quote from Frank McCourt

After a full belly all is poetry.-Frank McCourt

Quote from Stephen King

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.-Stephen King,THE GUNSLINGER.

Quote from Ken Follett

Hunger is the best seasoning.-Ken Follett,THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH.