Quote from Fannie Hirst

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.-Fannie Hirst

Quote from Martha Grimes

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.-Martha Grimes,THE LAMORNA WINK.

Protein-rich snack

Eating a protein-rich snack slows down digestion,stabilises blood sugar,makes one feel fuller and takes the edge off the appetite.

Quote on books

Books are many things:lullabies for the weary,ointment for the wounded,armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.-Glenda Millard

Protein

Eating protein slows down digestion.

Quote from Sharon Kay Penman

For every wound,the ointment of time.-Sharon Kay Penman

Quote on forgiveness

Forgiveness is commendable,but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.-Saadi

Quote from Roy T.Bennett

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind.Be led by the dreams in your heart.-Roy T.Bennett

Quote from Roddy Piper

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun!-Roddy Piper

Another quote from Tim Winton

Being afraid proves you're alive and awake.-Tim Winton,BREATH.

Quote from Tim Winton

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers.-Tim Winton,BREATH.

Quote from Steven Herrick

Cowards don't always hide sometimes,they're so gutless they need to stand out.-Steven Herrick,COLD SKIN.

Quote from Mark Twain

Life is short.Break the rules.Forgive quickly.Kiss slowly.Love truly.Laugh uncontrollably.And never
regret Anything That makes you smile.-Mark Twain

Quote from Jodi Picoult

You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.You don't get to trap me in the past.I am worthy of a future.-Jodi Picoult

Quote from Nat Hentoff

There is a seamless web to life----all life is sacred.-Nat Hentoff

Quote from Alfred North Whitehead

You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.-Alfred North Whitehead

Quote from Gloria Steinem

The ends and means are a seamless web.-Gloria Steinem

Quote on education

Education is a seamless web:One level of learning relates to every other.-Ernest L.Boyer

Donald Trump

Many people call Donald Trump a Teflon president;no scandal sticks to him.

Interesting websites

1 www.lifewire.com
2 www.abandonedspaces.com

Interesting website

https://abandonedspaces.com

Tourists consuming coffee in Italy

In Italy cappuccino is rarely drunk after 11 o'clock in the morning.
                                 People out themselves as tourists in Italy when they order cappuccino after lunch or dinner.

Coffee consumption in Italy and North America

80% of the coffee that Italians drink in 2019 is black coffee.Italians don't drink much milk with their coffee.
          On the other hand,90% of the coffee in North America is consumed with milk.

TMI

TMI-Too Much Information,in internet speak.

Fences

Fences,no matter how good,can't keep out smells.

Interesting song from 1996

Brand New Neighbour(1996)-song by The Killjoys.

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best nations are those most widely related;and navigation,as effecting a world-wide mixture ,is the most potent advancer of nations.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from James H.Boren

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.-James H.Boren

Quote from Thomas Reid

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship.The rules of architecture never built a house.-Thomas Reid

Quote from Christopher Fry

How can a man learn navigation where there's no rudder?-Christopher Fry

Quote from Todd Gitlin

Navigation is power of a limited sort-it enables us to manage the intensity of the media torrent.-Todd Gitlin

Quote from Mason Cooley

Illusions are hazardous,and so are disillusions.-Mason Cooley

Quote on politics

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts,and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.-Joyce Cary

Quote from Carol Bly

It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to shore.-Carol Bly

Digital deaging

Computer animators can in 2019 smooth out the wrinkles of aging screen actors in a technique known as digital deaging.Digital deaging can add decades to the career of an aging screen actor.
Digital facelifts are becoming more popular.Through a digital facelift an actor's hairline appears thicker and the skin is tightened up.
                                             But digital deaging does not win over all moviegoers and leaves some of them unimpressed.Human brains are still too good at detecting fakes.We have a giant chunk of grey matter whose sole purpose is to decode the content of faces.

A strange website

www.pretendtobepoor.com

Quote from Rita Mae Brown

Normal is the average of defiance.-Rita Mae Brown

Quote from Ellie Katz

Warning:Humor may be hazardous to your illness.-Ellie Katz

Quote from Henry Miller

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.-Henry Miller

Quote on truth

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.-R.Buckminster Fuller

Quote from Leonard Peikoff

Each man must reach his own verdict,by weighing all the relevant evidence.-Leonard Peikoff

Quote from Robert Browning

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.-Robert Browning

Verdict

Verdictive-Adjective of verdict;having the illuctionary force of issuing a judgment.

Unusual fun ,old ,obscure Christmas song

The Christmas Hippo song(1953)-song by Gayla Peevey.
                                       This song is so funny.

Another obscure Bobby Goldsboro song that I like

I Just Don't Love You Anymore(1967)-song by Bobby Goldsboro.

Quote from Ayn Rand

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.-Ayn Rand

Quote from Ellen Hopkins

God is an invention of mankind,an excuse to exist,and to thrive,in a subhuman state.-Ellen Hopkins

Quote from Lindsay Buroker

I suppose it's human tendency to treat the people who you've wronged badly though,isn't it ?Easier to dismiss them if you can pretend they're subhuman.-Lindsay Buroker

Quote from Henry Louis Gates

The western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and,therefore,subhuman was often shared by white master and ex-slave alike.-Henry Louis Gates

Tunnel vision

Tunnel vision is hyperfocus.

Quote from Armstrong Williams

Very simply,the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!-Armstrong Williams

Quote from Robert Hughes

There's no geist like the zeitgeist.-Robert Hughes

425th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Pas souvent(1966)-Connie Smith
2.Car----tu le sais bien(1966)-Raymond Perrier.(This song is a French version of the 1966 song 'YOU DON'T KNOW ME' by Eddy Arnold)
3.Opus aux puces(1976)-Luc Cousineau
4.J' veux pas de vinaigre sur mes patates(Ca C'est l' fun)(1973)-Marc Hamilton
5.La jeunesse-Marc Hamilton
6.Bay James Waltz-Luc Cousineau
6.La Chevalerie-Marc Hamilton
7.J'ai fait le tour de la Gaspésie(1972)-Marc Hamilton
8.Plus Belle Encore-Marc Hamilton
9.Laissez-moi dormir-Marc Hamilton
10.Reviens chez nous-Marc Hamilton

Question on unique town in Canada

Q.Which town has the unique distinction of being the only town in Canada that straddles two provinces?
Answer.Lloydminster.

Quote from Charles Lamb

The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness,than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.-Charles Lamb

Quote from Kevin Costner

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism.It's certainly going to come.-Kevin Costner

Quote from Groucho Marx

Poverty makes people subhuman.Excess of wealth makes people inhuman.-Groucho Marx

Good website for cooks

www.ambitiouskitchen.com

Quote from Bill Watterson

If you can't win by reason,go for volume.-Bill Watterson

Quote from Johann Kaspar Lavater

Loudness is impotence.-Johann Kaspar Lavater

Quote from Anthony LIccione

Silence is key,in locks of loudness.-Anthony Liccione

Cobalt

Two-thirds of the world's cobalt comes from the Congo in 2019.

Quote from Leni Zumas

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.-Leni Zumas

Interesting song from The Rheostatics

Bread Meat Peas And Rice-song by The Rheostatics.

Great song from 1986

Best Foot Forward(1986)-song by Martin Plaza

Great dance song from 1994

Moving On Up (1994)-song by M People with Heather Small.

Great song from Martin Plaza

Use Me All Over(1986)-song by Martin Plaza

Quote from Mason Cooley

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Jenn Bennett

One man's deviance is another man's lunch break.-Jenn  Bennett

Quote from Stacy Pershall

Not all deviance is negative;without it,we'd never change the world.-Stacy Pershall

Quote from Rita Mae Brown

Normal is the average of defiance.-Rita Mae Brown

Quote from Mark Haddon

B is for best seller.-Mark Haddon

Quote from George Orwell

Let's face it:Our lives are miserable,laborious and short.-George Orwell (1903-1950)

Quote from Robert Browning

Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.-Robert Browning

Quote from Corliss Lamont

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.-Corliss Lamont

Quote from David Lee

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.-David Lee

Quote from Mario Bunge

Original philosophy is always deviant or even subversive.-Mario Bunge

Quote from Hal Sparks

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.One step forward,two steps back.They want you to give up.-Hal Sparks

Interesring song from 2016 from Montreal

Mama(2016)-song by The Brooks.
                          The Brooks is a Montreal band.

Interesting,obscure song by The Clash

Bankrobber-song by The Clash.

Quote from Jim Rohn

Pay attention.Don't just stagger through the day.-Jim Rohn

Quote from Margaret Thatcher

I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.-Margaret Thatcher

Quote from Richard Armour

Some people can carry a tune,but they stagger under the load.-Richard Armour

Quote from Bryant McGill

When we are easily upset it is because we are internally unstable and unrefined spiritually.-Bryant McGill,SIMPLE REMINDERS:INSPIRATION FOR LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE.

Quote from Denis Parsons Burkitt

Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals;societies that eat fibre-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.-Denis Parsons Burkitt

Quote on genius

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning,but wisdom is like the sun.-Franz Grillparzer

Quote from Anna Sheehan

I didn't want the sun to rise.I didn't want the world to continue turning.I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.-Anna Sheehan,A LONG LONG SHEEP(Unicorp| #1)

Quote from Oli Anderson

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.-Oli Anderson,PERSONAL REVOLUTIONS:A SHORT COURSE IN REALNESS

Quote from Roger Altman

Mergers generate substantial synergies.-Roger Altman

Quote on mergers

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together,and they reduce overhead.-Tony Fadell

Quote from Angela Braly

We get talent and scale from mergers.-Angela Braly

Quote on cellphones

Cellphones are not a sign of power,they're a sign of subservience.-Doug Pappas

Quote from Cleveland Amory

What this world needs is a new army-the army of the kind.-Cleveland Amory

Interesting song from Montreal group

Your Smell Sticks To My Skin-song by Secret Soul Agency.
                                         Secret Soul Agency is a group from Montréal.

Quote from www.painscience.com

The human body is 80% water,so we are basically just cucumbers with anxiety.-www.painscience.com

Quote on Bitcoin

Bitcoin:Probably rat poison squared.-Warren Buffett

Quote from Jacques Barzun

To delve into history entails,besides the grievance of hard work,the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats.-Jacques Barzun(1907-2012)

Quote from Mason Cooley

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise,gluttony and sloth for relaxation.-Mason Cooley

Regimen

Regiminal-Adjective of regimen;relating to regimen.

Quote from Sundra Oakley

There is never such a thing as learning too much.We can always delve deeper,and in fact we should!-Sundra Oakley

Quote from Jon Stewart

The more you delve into science,the more it appears to rely on faith.-Jon Stewart

Obscure song from 2015 that I like

Old fashioned Love(2015)-song by The Good Lovelies

Quote from Alice Fulton

Emotion is the best mnemonic device.-Alice Fulton

Quote from Lord Mansfield

A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right.-Lord Mansfield

A can of crushed tomatoes that you bought and consumed in November 2019 .

In Novbember 2019,you bought and consumed a 796 ml tin can of EMMA-CRUSHED TOMATOES(Product of Canada).
-Ingrédients:Tomatoes,Salt,Citric Acid,Calcium Chloride.
-Product of Canada
 
Nutrition Facts:Per 1/2 cup(125 ml)-% Daily Value
                        :Calories-50
                        :Protein -3g
                        :Potassium-13%
                        :Calcium-2%
                        :Iron-8%.
                            This can of crushed tomatoes was quite good.

Quote from Samuel Johnson

Promise,large promise,is the soul of an advertisement.-Samuel Johnson

Quote from John Galsworthy

Life calls the tune,we dance.-John Galsworthy

Quote from Friedrich August Von Hayek

Once politics becomes a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie,decent government is impossible.-Friedrich August Von Hayek

Quaint song about food that is fun

Chips-Chicken-Banana Split-song by Jo-Jo and The Fugitives.

Quote from Jodie Foster

It's an interesting combination:Having a great fear of being alone,and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience.That's always been a tug of war for me.-Jodie Foster

Quote on success

Creating success is a tug of war between your mind and your heart-your fears and your dreams.If your fears win,you lose.-Robert G.Allen

Quote from Zoe Whittall

That's creativity in a nutshell.A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.-Zoe Whittall

Quote on the arts

For the arts epitomize,intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.-Lawren Harris

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The times,the age,what is that,but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Shel Silverstein

I will not play a tug o' war,I'd rather play a hug o'war.-Shel Silverstein

Quote from Larry Wall

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.-Larry Wall

Quote on growth

Growth is always a gradual process,a bridge slowly crossed  and not a corner sharply turned.-John Powell

Some songs from the fifties by The McGuire Sisters that I like

1.May You Always(1959)-The McGuire Sisters
2.Summer Dreams(1959)-The McGuire Sisters
3.Goodnight,Sweetheart,Goodnight-The McGuire Sisters
4.Picnic-The McGuire Sisters
5.Moonglow-The McGuire Sisters.

Quote from Norman Angell

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.-Norman Angell

Quote from Bob Dylan

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.-Bob Dylan

Quote from Chip Conley

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world,which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.-Chip Conley

Quote from Andy Summers

Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.-Andy Summers

Quote from Mitch Albom

Every life has one true love snapshot.-Mitch Albom

Quote from Aldous Huxley

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.-Aldous Huxley

Great song by Max Romeo that I like

Two Face People-song by Max Romeo

Three relatively newer songs that I like

1.That's Not My Name-The Ting Tongs
2.Asbestos Lead Asbestos-Meat Beat Manifesto
3.Dirty Old Town-The Irish Descendants

Quote from Jeremy Grantham

The stock market is overpriced.Everything is overpriced.Junk is king.-Jeremy Grantham

Quote from Charles E.McKenzie

Free advice is often overpriced.-Charles E.Mckenzie

Quote from Daniel Gilbert

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate,just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate.It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth,between happy and unhappy.That's how the system guides you through the world.-Daniel Gilbert

Quote from Chris Gardner

Your net worth can fluctuate,but your self-worth should only appreciate.-Chris Gardner

Quote from Charles E.Wilson

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.-Charles E.Wilson

Quote on bland writing

Bland writing-timid,antiseptic,vanilla writing-is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark.Instead of sipping elixir,nectar,tequila,or champagne,the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.-Tom Robbins

Quote from George Eliot

Better a wrong will than a wavering;better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend;better a false belief than no belief at all.-George Eliot

Quote from Alice Fulton

Silence is so steadfast,you know.It is so ample,after all.-Alice Fulton

Interesting song from Alberta

Drink It Like You Mean It-song by Corb Lund

Quote from Lou Diamond Phillips

It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.-Lou Diamond Phillips

Quote from MIke Dolan

Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.-Mike Dolan

Interesting quote from Russell Brand

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.----Russell Brand

Quote from Mark Twain

My mind changes often--People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm,but when a man is loaded down to the guards with it,as I am,every heavy sea of foreboding or inclination,maybe of indolence,shifts the cargo.-Mark Twain

Quote on success

Success:a marvelous stimulant,bubbling with inspiration and excitement.But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast,there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.-Samuel Hopkins Adams

Quote from Bob Hope

My secret for staying young is good food,plenty of rest and a makeup man with a spray gun.-Bob Hope

Quote on truth

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.-Christopher Morley

Quote from Gilbert Parker

Every shot that kills ricochets.-Gilbert Parker

Quote from Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if it's easier to spray weed killer on your lawn than mow it.-Jeff Foxworthy

Quote from Jim Dale

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom', only talent can keep you at the top.-Jim Dale

Quote from Stephen Colbert

If the eyes are the window of the soul,then why does it hurt when I spray them with Windex?-Stephen Colbert

Quote from Sylvia Plath

God,how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.-Sylvia Plath

A Texas joke

-Hey Alexa,can you check my bank balance and let me know which Apple product I can afford?
-Alexa:Apple Juice.-Facebook,TEXAS JOKES,December 3,2019.

Quote from Christine Baranski

The sibilant is the most difficult sound to correct.-Christine Baranski(born 1952),American actress.

Quote from perfection

Perfection is immutable.But for things imperfect,change is the way to perfect them.-Owen Feltham

Quote from Eric Kripke

When you start a show,the plans are not set in stone.They're really mutable,cocktail napkin sketches.-Eric Kripke

Another good website

www.retaildoc.com

Interesting websites for savvy consumers

1 www.ethicalconsumers.org
2 https://grabyourwallet.org
3 https://profitableandmoral.com
4 https://brokeassstuart.com

A couple of good websites

1 https://greenandgrowing.org
2 buildinghomesandliving.com

Quote from Matt Furey

The strongest nation on earth is your imagi-nation.-Matt Furey

Quote from Robert Anton Wilson

----Reality is always plural and mutable.-Robert Anton Wilson

Quote from Mahatma Gandhi

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.-Mahatma Gandhi

Quote from Sophie Swetchine

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories.We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.-Sophie Swetchine

Quote from Wayne Gerard Trotman

A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.-Wayne Gerard Trotman

Quote from Joel Osteen

Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.-Joel Osteen

Quote from Theodore Roosevelt

Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.-Theodore Roosevelt

Three songs by The Tragically Hip that you like

1.At The Hundredth Meridian-The Tragically Hip
2.Boots Or Hearts-The Tragically Hip
3.Family Band-The Tragically Hip

Quote from Rob Payne

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.-Rob Payne,''WORKING CLASS ZERO'',book by Rob Payne(2003).

One of the most popular songs on streaming services like Spotify in Canada in 2019

Senorita-song by Shawn Mendes,Camila Cabello.

Quote from Fareed Zakaria

In a world awash in debt,power shifts to creditors.-Fareed Zakaria

Quote from Christopher Marlowe

Above our life we love a steadfast friend.-Christopher Marlowe

Corrected version of Stephen Covey quote

Beginners are many;finishers are few.-Stephen Covey

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Stephen Covey

Beginners are few;finishers are many.-Stephen Covey

Quote from Martin Luther King

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.-Martin Luther King

Quote from Fareed Zakaria

When you're failing,there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what works.-Fareed Zakaria(born 1964)

Ronald Erwin McNair

In 1959,police were called to a segregated library in South Carolina when Ronald Erwin McNair,9 -year-old black boy,refused  to leave the library.He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT and died in 1986,as one of the astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him in 2019.

Quote from Eddie Vedder

It's the ones without scars-those are the people you have to watch out for.-Eddie Vedder

Quote on reporters

All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup.It usually keeps them from turning into toadies,a danger for those who associate,even in an adversarial way,with the rich and powerful.-Carolyn Hart

Quote from Miley Cyrus

I'd eat dirt before an animal.-Miley Cyrus

Quote on December

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond,frosting the pane,obscuring summer's memory.---- -John Geddes

Some other good songs I like

1.Landslide-Fleetwood Mac
2.Wrap Me up-Alex Party
3.Greta-Stevie Nicks
4.Photograph-Def Leppard
5.Party Time-Alex Party

Great song from the early eighties that I like

Echo Beach-song by Martha and the Muffins

Great dance song from Alex Party

Don't Give Me Your Life-song by Alex Party