Quote from George Bernard Shaw

The more I see of the moneyed classes,the more I understand the guillotine.-George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

Quote from Judith Martin

The obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination.The longer you wait,the more effusive must be the thanks.-Judith Martin

Location

Locational-Adjective of location

Wish-cycling

Wish-cycling-When people throw things that are contaminated or unrecyclable into recycling bins,hoping they will be recycled.

Cats

Cats love boxes.They love to crawl into small spaces.

Foreplay

Preliminaries-Another word for foreplay.

Albrexit

Albrexit-A plan to separate Alberta from Canada.A very bad idea.

Quote from Salvador Dali

I don't do drugs.I am drugs.-Salvador Dali

Yiddish proverb

Two mountains can't come together,but two people can.-Yiddish proverb

Quote from Nixon Waterman

Do not falter or shrink;But just think out your work,And just work out your think.-Nixon Waterman

Quote from Brian Tracy

Make your life a masterpiece,imagine no limitations on what you can be,have or do.-Brian Tracy

Foreplay

Afterplay-The opposite of foreplay.

Quote on Mars

Mars is like that uncleaned closet we have neglected for millenniums.Sin has collected there like bric-a-brac.Mars is twice Earth's age and has had double the number of Saturday nights,liquor baths ,and eye-poppings at women as naked as white seals.When we open that closet door,things will fall on us.-Ray Bradbury,THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

Corporatocracy

Corporatocracy-A society governed or controlled by corporations.

Quote from Oprah Winfrey

I don't believe in failure.It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.-Oprah Winfrey

Quote from Emilie Loring

It isn't the initial cost of a lie,it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.-Emilie Loring

Quote on education

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.-Édith Wharton

Quote from Patrick DeWitt

I find the constant upkeep of the body woefully fatiguing,don't you?-Patrick DeWitt

Quote from Marian Anderson

If you have a purpose in which you can believe,there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.-Marian Anderson

Quote from Brad Pitt

Each misstep leads to the next correct step.-Brad Pitt

Quote from Cate Blanchett

See the opportunity in the misstep.-Cate Blanchett

Quote on religion

Newsflash
You can love God
But hate his
Damned cheerleaders.
Religion sucks.-Brian Joseph,Facebook,December 22,2018.

Quote from Harley Quinn

It doesn't matter who hurt you,or broke you down,what matters is who made you smile again.-Harley Quinn

Quote from Martin Luther King Jr.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension;it is the presence of justice.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote from Arthur Eddington

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.-Arthur Eddington

Quote from David Sarnoff

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.-David Sarnoff

Quote from Buzz Aldrin

Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.-Buzz Aldrin,NEW JERSEY MONTHLY,June 2009.

Wood from Brazil

Cumaru-A cheap local wood also known as Brazilian teak.

Quote on politicians

Put politicians on minimum wage and watch how fast things change.-Silver Elephant,FACEBOOK,December 21,2018.

Quote on Mars

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.-Buzz Aldrin,COSMOS MAGAZINE,Octber 21,2013.

Quote from Publilius Syrus

Take care that no one hates you justly.-Publilius Syrus

Quote from Ray Bradbury

One day Earth will be as Mars is today.This will sober us.It's an object lesson in civilizations.-Ray Bradbury,THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.

Redwood trees

Redwood trees are among the fastest growing trees on the planet.They grow at the rate of 10 feet per year.Redwood trees have the ability to absorb an incredibly large amount of carbon dioxide and can help fight global warming in a significant way.

Great website for tree huggers and environmentalists

www.ancienttreearchive.org-   They  archive the genetics of ancient trees in living libraries around the world for the future

Richsplaining

Richsplaining:When a person who hasn't experienced poverty gives you patronizing advice on how to get out of poverty.

Quote from Edmund Vance Cook

Don't fight with the pillow,but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.-Edmund Vance Cook

Quote from Henry Louis Mencken

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers,the vermiform appendix and God.-Henry Louis Mencken(1880-1956)

Quote from Johnny Moscato

Time heals all wounds.Unless they're infected.Like gangrene.That shit'll kill you.-Johnny Moscato

Quote on contempt

Contempt is a kind of gangrene which if it seizes one part of a character,corrupts all the rest by degrees.-Samuel Johnson

Quote from William Butler Yeats

The falcon cannot hear the falconer.-William Butler Yeats

Quote from Khalil Gibran

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things,but not their end.-Khalil Gibran

Falcon

Falconet-A baby falcon

Quote from Richard Dawkins

When I am dying,I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic,exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.-Richard Dawkins

Quote from Scott McClanahan

I'm sure we're going to find out one day that the brain is as worthless as the appendix.-Scott McClanahan

Quote from Arthur Conan Doyle

I am a brain,Watson.The rest of me is a mere appendix.-Arthur Conan Doyle

Quote on remarriage

Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix back in.-Phyllis Diller

Quote from George Orwell

A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims---but accomplices.-George Orwell(1903-1950)

Two great underrated songs from Della Reese

1.Everyday(1960)-Della Reese
2.There's No Two Ways About It (1960)-Della Reese

361st list of 10 French songs you like

1.Obsession-Johnny Farago.(This song is a French version of the 1964 song 'SUSPICION' by Terry Stafford)
2.Un Seul Instant(1972)-Johnny Farago
3.Le Rock de Bordeaux(1978)-Johnny Farago.(This song is a French version of the Elvis Presley super hit 'JAILHOUSE ROCK')
4.Souvenirs,Souvenirs(1960)-Les Kessler Sisters
5.Si Tu m'Aimais Autant(1962)-Guy Roger
6.Toi L'Amour(1960)-Ginette Sage
7.Don Juan (1966)-Normand Salva
8.Le Chemin de la joie(1962)-Chris Valois
9.Mon Coeur fait des bonds-Marcel Amont
10.Je vais pleurer(1966)-Les Minous Blancs.(This song is a French version of the 1964  Beatles song 'AIN'T SHE SWEET')
10.Un Coeur Sans Amour(1966)-Gaetan Roy.(This song is a French version of the 1966 song 'SOLITARY MAN' by Neil Diamond)
10.Chaque Jour que Dieu Fait(1960)-Pierre Senecal.(This song is a French version of the 1960 song 'EVERYDAY' by Della Reese)

Quote from Lucille Ball

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart,but he's not very bright.-Lucille Ball

Quote from Julie Andrews

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose.Work hard,apply yourself,and be ready.When an opportunity comes you can grab it.-Julie Andrews (born 1935)

Quote from Julie Andrews

A lot of my life happened in great,wonderful bursts of good fortune,and then I would race to be worthy of it.-Julie Andrews(born 1935)

Quote on the arts

The arts bridge cultures;they're good for the economy,and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.-Julie Andrews(born 1935)

Quote from Natalie Goldberg

Indefinite plans get dubious results.-Natalie Goldberg

Quote on perseverance

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.-Julie Andrews

Quote from Julie Andrews

Some people regard discipline as a chore.For me,it 's a kind of order that sets me free to fly.-Julie Andrews(born 1935)

Quote from Anthony T.Hincks

Deadbeats,contrary to belief,are not musical interludes for the dead.-Anthony T.Hincks

Quote from Chiranjeevi

I always believe holidays strengthen the family bond,away from our daily hectic schedules.-Chiranjeevi

Quote from Craig D.Lounsbrough

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage.But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.-Craig D.Lounsbrough

Quote from Victoria Glendinning

There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains.No writer can give that sort of pleasure.-Victoria Glendinning

360th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Savoir Aimer (1962)-Paolo Noel.(This song is a French version of the 1962 hit song 'STRANGER ON THE SHORE')
2.Bleu,blanc,blond-Marcel Amont
3.Les Bleuets d'Azur-Marcel Amont
4.La chanson du Grillon-Marcel Amont
5.Les Moulins de Mon Coeur-Marcel Amont.(This song is a French version of the 1969 hit song 'THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND' by Dusty Springfield)
6.Un Mexicain-Marcel Amont
7.Des larmes de tendresse-Marcel Amont
8.24 mille baisers-Pierre Robyn
9.Dicky-Les Mysterieuses
10.Ursula(1966)-Tom et Jerry

Quote from Wayne Dyer

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose.Anything less is a form of slavery.-Wayne Dyer

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;forget them as soon as you can.Tomorrow is a new day.You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Anthony T.Hincks

It's disquieting when it's quiet.-Anthony T.Hincks

Quote from Robert Noyce

Don't be encumbered by history,just go out and do something wonderful.-Robert Noyce

Two great blogs for the environment

1 https://greengroundswell.com
2 https://getgreenbewell.com

Quote on February

Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.-Tom Robbins

Geoengineering

Geoengineering used to be a fringe idea.
                       But due to runaway climate change,it might unfortunately gain mainstream acceptance in the near future.
                          Geoengineering is called 'planet hacking' by some.
                                                 

Quote from Daniel H.Wilson

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new.The radio,the telephone,Facebook-each of these inventions changed the world.Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation.And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.-Daniel H.Wilson

Quote from Curt Sachs

Whatever the nature of dance,it needs no onlooker,not even a single witness.-Curt Sachs

Quote on art

The role of art is to give food for thought,to act as a stimulant,to entice the onlooker to inspect things,people,emotions,from a new point of view.-Jim Ede

Quote from Bryan Miller

The highway is replete with culinary land mines disguised as quaint local restaurants that carry such reassuring names as Millie's,Pop's and Capt'n Dick's.-Bryan Miller

Quote from William Cowper

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men;Wisdom is attentive to their own.-William Cowper(1731-1800),foremost English poet of his time.

Quote from Og Mandino

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward;turn away from them,avoid them ,and you throw away your future.-Og Mandino

Quote from Mark Twain

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor.Gentle humor is replete with wisdom.-Mark Twain(1835-1910)

Quote from C.S.Lewis

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.-C.S.Lewis(1898-1963)

359th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Tout doux tout doucement-Marcel Amont.(This song is a French version of the 1959 'COME SOFTLY TO ME DARLING' by The Fleetwoods)
2.Rossignol-Luis Mariano
3.Ah!Le petit vin blanc(1964)-Lina Margy
4.L'Amour ca fait passer le temps-Marcel Amont
5.Le Vagabond-El Toro et Les Cyclones.(This song is a French version of the 1962 song 'THE WANDERER' by Dion)
6.Dans Le Coeur de ma blonde(1961)-Marcel Amont.(This song is a French version of the hit 1961 instrumental song 'WHEELS' by The Stringalongs)(You love this song)
7.Le Nuage qui passe(1967)-Erick Saint Laurent
8.Apres la bataille(1968)-Erick Saint Laurent
8.Les Enfants qui Jouent(1967)-Erick Saint Laurent
9.Le Canard-Erick Saint Laurent
10.Les Voisins(1967)-Marcel Amont
10.Une Autre Fois(1960)-Pierre Senecal.(This song is a French Quebec version of the 1960 song 'JUST ONE TIME' by Don Gibson)

Quote on reserve

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.-W.Somerset Maugham

Quote on freelance writers

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve everywhere.-S.J.Perelman

Quote on blush

A blush is no language:only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.-George Eliot

Quote from Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In the face of evil,detachment is a dubious virtue.-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Great instrumental song by master guitarist Chet Atkins

Windy and Warm(1961)-Chet Atkins

Quote from Benjamin Alire Saenz

We are all collateral damage for someone's beautiful ideology,all of us inanimate in the face of the onslaught.-Benjamin Alire Saenz

Quote from Stephen Richards

Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.-Stephen Richards

Quote from Bill Hybels

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.-Bill Hybels

Quote from Georges Braque

Art is polymorphic.A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.-Georges Braque

Quote from Mark Twain

Never argue with a fool.Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.-Mark Twain

Quote from Diane Ravitch

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.-Diane Ravitch

Encryption

Decryption is the opposite of encryption.
                              Encrypted data is often decrypted.

Softwood trees

Softwood trees include Douglas fir,juniper,cedar,redwood,pine,spruce and yew.

Hardwood trees

Hardwood trees include alder,balsa,beech,hickory,mahogany,maple,oak,teak and walnut.

Quote from Lou Reed

You can depend on the worst always happening,
You need a busload of faith to get by.-Lou Reed,singer and songwriter.

Quote from Ronald Dworkin

Absolute confidence or clarity is the privilege of fools and fanatics.-Ronald Dworkin,JUSTICE FOR HEDGEHOGS.

Quote from John Chrysotom

Endurance is the queen of all virtues.-John Chrysotom

Quote from Pat Conroy

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.-Pat Conroy

Quote on truth

The truth is like sunlight:It causes cancer.-J.Richard Singleton

Quote on writing

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time,unlike,say a brain surgeon.-Robert Cormier

Quote from Andrew Crofts

Stability and security are just illusions.But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.-Andrew Crofts,SECRETS OF THE ITALIAN GARDENER

Fudgel

Fudgel-Pretending to work while actually doing nothing.
                      An old English word that has fallen out of popular use.

Interesting quote on Los Angeles

Los Angeles is a city made up of refugees from better cities.-J.Richard Singleton

Quote from Dorothy L.Sayers

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.-Dorothy L.Sayers

Quote from Angela Carter

In a secular age,an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax,in order to gain credit in the world.-Angela Carter

Quote from Bill Hicks

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.-Bill Hicks

Hoax

Hoaxical-of or pertaining to a hoax;adjective of hoax.

Great song to make you feel hungry

Beans and Cornbread(1949)-song by Louis Jordan and The Tympany Five

Quote from Anthony T.Hincks

The sweet smell of success comes on the back of the stench of hard earned sweat.-Anthony T.Hincks

Quote from Daniel Lee Edstrom

The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of noncreation.-Daniel Lee Edstrom

Quote from Craig D.Lounsbrough

You can dress up greed,but you can't stop the stench.-Craig D.Lounsbrough

Great song by Louis Jordan

Choo Choo Boogie-Louis Jordan

Quote on death

Death wears many faces,but it's stench is always the same.-Stephen R.Lawhead

Quote from Herman Melville

Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of the old;but in the shambles,men are being murdered to-day.-Herman Melville

Quote from William James

Our civilization is founded on the shambles,and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.-William James

Quote from Douglas MacArthur

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency.-Douglas MacArthur

Quote from Raymond S.Fosdick

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress;it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.-Raymond S.Fosdick

Quote from Celso Cukierkorn

Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse.Let us stop following them and go in the other direction.-Celso Cukierkorn

Michelle Bachelet

Michelle Bachelet was the president of Chile for a while.
               Prior to becoming president,Michelle Bachelet opposed Chile's military dictatorship ,and she was jailed and tortured for that.
                       Her father,Alberto Bachelet,was arrested  also in 1973.Alberto Bachelet was tortured in prison and died in prison of heart troubles as a result of that,in 1974 ,at the age of 50.

Quote from Elbert Hubbard

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.-Elbert Hubbard

Quote from Philip Pullman

That's the duty of the old,to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.-Philip Pullman

Quote from Anthony T.Hincks

It's when we seek an easy way out that we get trampled in the stampede.-Anthony T.Hincks

Quote from Raymond S.Fosdick

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases,but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.-Raymond S.Fosdick

Quote from Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is a stampede to get to to the top.-Bangambiki Habyarimana

Quote from Raymond S.Fosdick

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases,but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.-Raymond S.Fosdick

Quote on education

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.-Philip Pullman

Quote from Philip Pullman

Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.-Philip Pullman

The great Isaac Wright

In 1991 Isaac Wright was wrongfully convicted of being a drug kingpin in New Jersey and got life in prison.During the appeal process he educated himself on the law,was exonerated of all charges,went to law school,came back and got the cops and judge locked up.

Stampede in Turin,Italy

A stampede during a soccer celebration in Torino,Italy on June 3,2017,was caused by a group of young men who pepper-sprayed the crowd so that they could pickpocket people in the crowd more easily.One woman was killed in the stampede and many dozens injured.
                                    Four of these young men were arrested and are now serving time in prison.

Quote from Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates.But we must act as if we are not,or die of despair.-Philip Pullman

Celluloid

The first commercial product made from celluloid was dentures.

Quote from Martin Garrix

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous,acted out by cowards hiding behind computers.My advice is to ignore negativity.Focus on the love around.-Martin Garrix

Quote from Vladmir Nabokov

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.-Vladmir Nabokov

Quote from Edgar Alalan Poe

Years of love have been forgot,
In the hatred of a minute.-Edgar Allan Poe

Quote from Calvin Hobbes

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long.If we're in each other's dreams,we can play together all night.-Bill Watterson,''CALVIN AND HOBBES.''

Quote on love

Love's language is imprecise,fits more like mittens than gloves.-Madam C.J.Walker

Quote on poetry

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.-Kenneth Koch

Poland

In 2018 Poland's economy still runs on coal.80% of Poland's electricity is generated from coal and many homes in the country are heated by coal.
                                Mining unions are still strong in Poland.Some 1,00,000 people in Poland are coal miners.

Quote from Benjamin Whichcote

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.-Benjamin Whichcote

Quote on grief

Grief is a process to go through,not a destination in which to wallow.In a process,you keep putting one foot in front of the other,and each little step is part of your healing.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Phil McGraw

Most choices are driven by immediate results.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Phil McGraw

When you allow a person's words to upset you,you're giving away your power.-Phil McGraw

358th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Silver and Blue(1968)-Ricardo
2.Dans Les Dix Premiers-Jocy
3.Johnny oh Johnny-Monique Saint Onge
4.Bientot les vacances(1965)-Monty.(This song is a French version of the 1965 hit song 'THE BIRDS AND THE BEES' by Jewel Akens)
5.Trois Petits Tambours-Annie Philippe
6.Santa Lucia-Tino Rossi
7.Quand La Neige Tombe Sur Les Roses-Tino Rossi
8.L'Amour Gagne-Stephane
9.L'Amour Se Lit Dans Tes Yeux-Hugo Pascal
10.Monsieur Bonheur-Francine Moran
10.Il Faut Oser(1965)-Les Missiles
10.Je ne peux pas ne pas t'aimer(1965)-Hugo Pascal

Quote from Phil McGraw

You know,what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Phil McGraw

Know your goal,make a plan and pull the trigger.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling,position by cringing.-Robert Green Ingersoll

Quote on anger

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt,fear and frustration.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Phil McGraw

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Albert Camus

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.-Albert Camus

Quote from Phil McGraw

There is no reality,only perception.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Phil McGraw

It is hard to see your own face without a mirror.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Margot Asquith

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,you are
oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.-Margot Asquith

Interesting websites and blogs for vegans

1 www.thenomadicvegan.com
2 https://vegancrunk.blogspot.com
3 www.healthygirlskitchen.com

Interesting quote on men and women

Men fall in love with their eyes.Women fall in love with their ears.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Ezra Pound

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation.Neither are they transmitted by book learning.-Ezra Pound

Some great blogs and websites for vegans and vegetarians

1 https://happyherbivore.com
2 www.thehungryherbivore.com
3 plantbaseddietician.com
4 https://vegantriangle.blogspot.com

Quote on choices

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear.Most people don't choose what they want;they choose what they think is safe.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Phil McGraw

You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!-Phil McGraw

Apple bread that you consumed in October 2018

In October 2018,you consumed a 500g pack of APPLE Bread-ROUGEMONT,Quebec.
                                                  Tel:(450)469-4139.


Ingredients:Wheat,Vegetable Oil,Water,Sugar,apple,yeast,salt,cinnamon,egg,apricot jelly.

Quote from Phil McGraw

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.-Phil McGraw

Quote on mothers

A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.-Phil McGraw

Quote on pain

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Phil McGraw

Take the high road,there's a lot less traffic up there.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Lauren Collins

It is as unhealthy for the global community to rely too heavily on one language as it is to mass-cultivate a single crop.-Lauren Collins,WHEN IN FRENCH:LOVE IN A SECOND LANGUAGE.

Great book for those tired of the anti-clutter movement

The Joy of Leaving Your Shit All Over The Place:The Art of Being Messy(2016)-Book by Jennifer McCartney.
                   Order this great book from Amazon or buy it from your local bookstore.

Canada and the U.S.

The U.S. is a capitalistic country;Canada is a sociocapitalistic country.

People murdered by Brazil's military dictatorship

During the military dictatorship in Brazil from the mid-1960s until 1985,hundreds of Brazilians were detained,tortured and killed for criticizing the government.One of them was a former Congressman named Rubens Paiva.
                           Rubens Paiva was taken away from his family home by agents and tortured intensely during investigation in army barracks.He died as a result of the torture just the next day after being led away from his home.
                         His death was only officially confirmed to his family three decades later in the nineties.What cruelty and injustice!

Quote from John Norquist

Cities are for people.A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening.It is not a traffic corridor.-John Norquist

Quote from Joe L.Wheeler

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives,but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.-Joe L.Wheeler

Quote from John Carlson

Reserve is strength;overstatement is weakness.No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.-John Carlson

Quote from Frank Smith

One language sets you in a corridor for life.Two languages open every door along the way.-Frank Smith

Quote from J.M.Ledgard

But then life is never neat,it is made up of doors and trap doors.You move down baroque corridors,and even when you think you know which door to open,you still need to have the courage to choose.-J.M.Ledgard

Quote from Mike Murdock

Success will smile at the man who refuses to lie down at the corridor of failure.-Mike Murdock

Quote from J.K.Rowling

It is our choices---that show what we truly are,far more than our abilities.-J.K.Rowling

Quote from Truman Capote

Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds,and the anxieties,the phantom floatings,they create.-Truman Capote

Quote from Ursula K.LeGuin

In the airport,luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors,like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different,inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.-Ursula K.LeGuin

Quote from Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest sun!-Mehmet Murat Ildan

Quote from Richard Sharp

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us,and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures,since very few great ones,alas! are let on long leases.-Richard Sharp

Quote from Thomas Moore

The only thing as challenging as getting tangled in the underbrush of relationship is trying to write about it.-Thomas Moore

Quote from Cheryl Strayed

Now is not the time to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities.You have earned the right to grow.-Cheryl Strayed

Quote from Dan Fogelberg

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time,run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.-Dan Fogelberg

Quote on history

History has many cunning passages,contrived corridors and issues.-T.S.Eliot

Quote from Phil McGraw

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.-Phil McGraw

Quote from Deepak Chopra

At the most subtle level,your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.-Deepak Chopra

Quote from Michael Hyatt

Sometimes a perceived obstacle is just an opportunity in disguise.-Michael Hyatt

Quote from Shakuntala Devi

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree.It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.-Shakuntala Devi

Quote from Isaac Asimov

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind,where none may reach and none may save.-Isaac Asimov

Quote from William Penn

Avoid flatterers,for they are thieves in disguise.-William Penn

Quote from Lauren Collins

Language,as much as land,is a place.To be cut off from it is to be,in a sense,homeless.-Lauren Collins

Capital punishment in Japan-strange fact

The death penalty exists in Japan in 2018.The death penalty enjoys broad support in Japan.
                                But in Japan people who are executed do not receive advance warnings.
                                      Death row inmates in Japan often get told  only two or three hours before an execution that they are going to be hung.

Quote from Diane Ackerman

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once.A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.-Diane Ackerman(born 1948)

Quote on language

Language is the road map of a culture.It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.-Rita Mae Brown

Quote on clothes

Who said that clothes make a statement?What an understatement that was.Clothes never shut up.-Susan Brownmiller

Quote from George Steiner

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.-George Steiner

Quote from Russell Page

A discerning eye needs only a hint,and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.-Russell Page

Quote from Czeslaw Milosz

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.-Czeslaw Milosz

Pandas

China is the only country that is home to pandas.

Hotel chains

Marriott -The largest hotel chain in the world in November 2018.
                           It contains the Delta,Weston and Sheraton hotels.

Sibelius

Finnish composer Jean Sibelius and his wife Aino maintained a bilingual correspondence throughout their married life.He wrote to her in Swedish.She wrote back in Finnish.

Quote from Alfred White Smith

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.-Alfred North Whitehead

Quote from Elliott Sober

''Simple is always better '' is an overstatement.-Elliott Sober

Quote from Jim Davis

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.-Jim Davis

Quote from Paul Gray

Muffled lives explode in understatement.-Paul Gray

Quote from Helena Rubinstein

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty,remember,understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.-Helena Rubinstein

Quote from Calvin Coolidge

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge,it is always simple and direct.-Calvin Coolidge

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Quote from Deepak Chopra

Every time you are tempted to REACT in the same old way,ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.-Deepak Chopra

Winnipeg

Winnipeg is often jokingly called 'Winterpeg'.

Quote from Stephen Fry

An original idea.That can't be too hard.The library must be full of them.-Stephen Fry

Quote from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In this bad,twisted,topsy-turvy world,where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Subterfuge

subterfugic-Adjective of subterfuge

Quote from Craig Greenfield

When you glorify a missionary crossing a border illegally to share the gospel,but demonize a mother tear-gassed for crossing a border illegally to save her children,maybe your gospel is too small.-Craig Greenfield

Quote from Arthur Koestler

Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception,liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.-Arthur Koestler

Quote from Annie Sophie Swetchine

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console.Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.-Annie Sophie Swetchine

Quote on experience

Experience is a keen knife that hurts while it extracts the cataract that blinds.-J.De Finod

Quote on truth

Truth will be uppermost one time or another,like a cork,though kept down in the water.-William Temple

Peezing

Peezing-Verb meaning sneezing and peeing at the same time.

Quote from Henry Clay

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.-Henry Clay

Quote from Richard Weaver

No one can take culture seriously if it believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.-Richard Weaver