Quote on fear

Fear has never helped anybody make good choices.It leads to clinging when we should be walking.-Harriet Lerner

Quote from Anne Sullivan Macy

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence,but we cling desperately to our chains.-Anne Sullivan Macy

Quote from Bela Lugosi

People,chained by monotony,afraid to think,clinging to certainties----they live like ants.-Bela Lugosi

Quote from Thomas Jefferson

When injustice becomes law,resistance becomes duty.-Thomas Jefferson

Blackberries you just finished consuming

On November 30,2017,Thursday,you bought and consumed a 170 g plastic box of DEL MONTE-Blackberries.-Product of Mexico.
                               These blackberries were quite good.

Quote from Jerry Seinfeld

Pay attention,don't let life go by you.Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.-Jerry Seinfeld

Quote on photography

Photography takes an instant out of time,altering life by holding it still.-Dorothea Lange

Quote on Black Friday

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself  into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.-Kumail Nanjiani

Quote from Boilerplate Rino

Of course anyone who loves books buys more of them than she or he can hope to read in a lifetime.A good book,resting unopened on a slot in its shelf,full of majestic potentiality,is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.-Boilerplate Rino

Quote from Martin Luther King Jr.

You know my friends,there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron fleet of oppression.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote on conscience

Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.-Wilford O.Cross

Quote on time

Time:a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.-William S.Burroughs

Quote on history

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.-Richard M.Nixon

Tidbit about the song 'HOTEL CALIFORNIA'

.'Mexican Reggae' was the working title of the Eagles hit 1977 song 'Hotel California'

Quote from Dale Carnegie

The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way,and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance,and recognize it sincerely.-Dale Carnegie

Quote from Stanley Kubrick

The very meaninglessness of life forces a man to create his own meaning.-Stanley Kubrick

Quote from Roger Kimball

We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted,like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.-Roger Kimball

Quote from Audrey Hepburn

Actually,depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.-Audrey Hepburn

Quote from Reba McEntire

To succeed in life,you need three things:a wishbone,a backbone and a funny bone.-Reba McEntire

Brand of olive oil you finished consuming in November 2017

In November 2017,you finished consuming a 1 Litre glass bottle of BORRELLI EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL.-Imported from Italy.No Trans Fat.
                           It was quite good.

Quote from Samuel Johnson

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world,of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.-Samuel Johnson

Quote on New York

New York,like London,seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.-Thomas Jefferson

Quote on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday.People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year.And then discover once a year is way too often.-Johnny Carson

Quote from J.F.Lawton

Even monkeys fall out of trees.-J.F.Lawton(b.1960),American screenwriter and film producer,THE HUNTED.

Quote on the upper classes

Upper classes are a nation's past;the middle class is its future.-Ayn Rand

Quote from Evan Esar

A batch of credit cards fattens a wallet before it thins it.-Evan Esar

Quote from J.F.Lawton

Stores are never nice to people.They're nice to credit cards.-J.F.Lawton,PRETTY WOMAN

Quote on lawyers

Lawyer:one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.-H.L.Mencken

Quote from Yann Martel

I must go to the washroom.I've shaken a lot of hands.-Yann Martel

Quote from Alexander Fleming

Penicillin sat on the shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.-Alexander Fleming

Quote from Muhammad Ali

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread,they can sure make something out of you.-Muhammad Ali

Quote from Douglas Coupland

Long lives aren't natural.We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.-Douglas Coupland

Quote on penicillin

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs,it might never have been used by man.-Peter Singer

Quote from Tennessee Williams

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God.Humanity is just a work in progress.-Tennessee Williams

Quote from Munia Khan

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea.-Munia Khan

Quote from George William Curtis

Happiness is speechless.-George William Curtis

Quote from Oscar Wilde

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.-Oscar Wilde

Quote on consumerism

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.-Henry Rollins

Quote from Geraldine A.Ferraro

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very,very small snack foods.-Geraldine A.Ferraro

Quote from Oswald Chambers

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.-Oswald Chambers

Quote from Arthur C.Clarke

You can't have it both ways.You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.-Arthur C.Clarke

Quote from Tori Amos

Healing takes courage,and we all have courage,even if you have to dig a little.-Tori Amos

Quote from Kayla Dawn

Without a single thought,two hands collide and the world finally makes sense.-Kayla Dawn

Quote from Mason Cooley

Vanity well fed is benevolent:Vanity hungry is spiteful.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Samuel Johnson

Do not suffer life to stagnate;it will grow muddy for want of motion:commit yourself again to the current of the world.-Samuel Johnson(1709-1784),English poet anmd critic

Quote from Amit Kalantri

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.-Amit Kalantri,WEALTH OF WORDS.

Quote from Rose Franken

Never Muddy the people you Love.-Rose Franken

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in rugged cities,in unbearable endurance,and in aims which put sympathy out of the question,that the angel is born.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from A.C.Grayling

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians,so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.-A.C.Grayling(born 1949)

Another quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Martin Luther King Jr.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote from Dorothy Parker

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship.-Dorothy Parker

Quote on love

Love is the only doorway from the prison of ourselves.-Peter Shaffer

Quote on history

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard.It is a poem with events as verses.-Charles Angoff

Quote from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A book is a mirror:if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quote from Sydney J.Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.-Sydney J.Harris

Quote from Joel Osteen

You control the doorway to your mind.-Joel Osteen

Quote from Robert Bly

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.-Robert Bly

Quote from John Andrew Holmes

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action,where it often substitutes for both.-John Andrew Holmes

Quote from Steven Spielberg

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.-Steven Spielberg

Quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Needs are imposed by nature.Wants are sold by society.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quote from Dorothy Sayers

He was deeply moved,for the whisky had been generously measured.-Dorothy Sayers

Quote from Mortimer Adler

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds,but all they are ever affecting is the memory.Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing,which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.-Mortimer Adler

Quote from Ellen Gilchrist

We live at the level of our language.-Ellen Gilchrist

Quote from William T.Wiley

All kids,when they go to school,are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets.All that gets buried,basically through being educated,or brainwashed.-William T.Wiley

Lemons that you consumed

In November 2017,you finished consuming a 454 g FRESCADEL mesh bag of four lemons.Product of Uruguay.The lemons were pretty good.

Quote from Ellen Gilchrist

All you have to do to educate a child is to leave him alone and teach him to read.The rest is brainwashing.-Ellen Gilchrist

Quote from Albert Einstein

The family that prays together----is brainwashing their children.-Albert Einstein

Quote from Yana Toboso

The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin.-Yana Toboso

Quote on advertising

Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks----A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.-Scott Adams

Quote on religion

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.-A.C.Grayling

Another quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods---a few seconds after he took Viagra.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job;some need customers.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quote from Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.-Albert Einstein,1955

Quote from Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them.If your dreams do not scare you,they are not big enough.-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Quote from Wonder Woman

Women seem sissies because you don't know their true strength.-Wonder Woman

Quote from Jon Stewart

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke,then you don't have a regime.-Jon Stewart

Quote from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $1,00,000 annually through a salary.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quote from Jean Rhys

I am sad,sad as a circus-lioness,sad as an eagle without wings,sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken,sad as a woman who is growing old.-Jean Rhys

Quote on markets

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor.The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.-Jeffrey D.Sachs

Quote from Jeffrey D.Sachs

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.-Jeffrey D.Sachs(born 1954)

Quote from James D.Watson

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.-James D.Watson

Quote from Mason Cooley

Unemployment diminishes people.Leisure enlarges them.-Mason Cooley,CITY APHORISMS

Quote from Jean Rhys

Sometimes the Earth trembles;sometimes you can feel it breathe.-Jean Rhys

Quote from Jean Rhys

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds-with God's help I catch some.-Jean Rhys

Important website for genealogists

www.savefamilyphotos.com

Quote from Hugh Sidey

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.-Hugh Sidey

Quote from Mark Van Doren

Wisdom before experience is only words;wisdom after experience is of no avail.-Mark Van Doren

Quote from Lukhman Pambra

It is better to deal with unemployment than allowing yourself to be employed and remain unpaid!-Lukhman Pambra

Quote on unemployment

Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education.Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Quote on self-employment

Self-employment killed the weekend.-Mokokoma  Mokhonoana,THE CONFESSIONS OF A MISFIT

Quote on weekends

Weekends are a bit like rainbows;they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.-John Shirley

Quote from Jean Rhys

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere,heavy,melancholy,standing still.-Jean Rhys

Quote from Rod Schmidt

There aren't enough days in the weekend.-Rod Schmidt

Quote from Ira Gassen

Be careful of your thoughts;they may become words at any moment.-Ira Gassen

Quote from Arnot L.Sheppard

If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time,don't drag your feet.-Arnot L.Sheppard

Quote from Shirley Chisholm

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines,whimpering and complaining.You make progress by implementing ideals.-Shirley Chisholm

Three great underrated songs

1.Vancouver by the Sea-Alberta Slim
2.I'm Bored-Iggy Pop
3.The Donut Song-Burl Ives

Quote from Wendy Mass

The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field.-Wendy Mass

Quote from G.k.Chesterton

Paradox has been defined as Truth standing on her head to get attention.-G.K.Chesterton

Quote on acting

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.-River Phoenix

Quote from Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote from Demetri Martin

I used to play sports.Then I realized you can buy trophies.Now I am good at everything.-Demetri Martin

Quote from Paul Manafort

Fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives.-Paul Manafort

Quote from Douglas Coupland

If human beings had genuine courage,they'd wear their costumes every day of the year,not just on Halloween.-Douglas Coupland

Quote on happiness

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place.But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.-E.L.Konigsburg