Quote on television

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it,as well as contributing to the need for it.-Alfred Hitchcock

Quote from Queen Elizabeth II

Grief is the price we pay for love.-Queen Elizabeth II

Quote on rudeness

I'm not rude.I just have the balls to say what everyone else is thinking.-FACEBOOK,FSensitivity,April 11,2021.

Quote on smart Tv

A real smart Tv would increase the volume when you started eating chips.-FSensitivity,FACEBOOK,April 5,2021.

Quote on prejudice

Prejudices,it is well known,are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education;they grow firm there,firm as weeds among stones.-Charlotte Bronte

Quote from Elia Kazan

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.-Elia Kazan(1909-2003)

Quote from Elia Kazan

Even fighter has one fight that makes or break him.-Elia Kazan(1909-2003)

Quote from J.D.McClatchy

Love is the quality of attention we pay to things.-J.D.McClatchy

Quote from Elia Kazan

You have to remind people of their own struggles.It's a responsibility.-Elia Kazan

Quote from Simone De Beauvoir

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.-Simone de Beauvoir

Great quote from Albert Einstein

Everybody is a genius.But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.-Albert Einstein

Great quote from Paul Guilding

Our economy is based on a crazy idea-that crazy idea being that you can have infinite growth on a finite planet.-Paul Guilding

Quote from Demetri Martin

It takes so little to make a stranger's day,and even less to totally ruin it.-Demetri Martin

Quote from Alan Watts

Nirvana is where you are,provided you do not object to it.-Alan Watts

Quote from Elia Kazan

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.-Elian Kazan (1909-2003)

Antarctica

Antarctica used to be called Australia until modern-day Australia stole its name in 1824,which left the continent nameless until its current name was adopted in 1890s.

Great book by Anne Marie Bonneau

The Zero-Waste Chef:Plant-Forward Recipes and Tips For a Sustainable Kitchen and Planet-Book by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Great website for those who hate food waste

www.zerowastechef.com

Quote on self-denial

Self-denial is not a virtue:It is only the effect of prudence on rascality.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote from Magda Gerber

Let the child be the script writer,the director and the actor in his own play.-Magda Gerber

Quote from Elia Kazan

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery,suspicion and secrecy.Hard and exact facts will cool it.-Elia Kazan

Quote from Oliver Goldsmith

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.-Oliver Goldsmith

Quote from Scott Goodson

If a public groundswell occurs without altering people's attitudes or shifting the cultural dialogue at least slightly,then it is not a movement-it's a fad.-Scott Goodson

Quote from Lisa Kleypas

A groundswell of silence moved between us.Trouble on the surface,and even deeper currents beneath.-Lisa Kleypas

Quote from James Joyce

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful.What the beautiful is is another question.-James Joyce

Quote from Madeleine M.Kunin

Poor privileged white men.Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.-Madeleine M.Kunin

The albatross

The albatross is the largest bird that can go years without landing.They spend their first 6 years of life flying over the ocean before coming to land to mate.It is capable of travelling more than 10,000 miles in a single journey and circumnavigating the globe in 46 days.

Quote on finding oil

Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science-You need a lot of people-statisticians,engineers and geologists,of course.And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books.-Eike Batista

Aerosmith in 1978

In 1978,rock band Aerosmith paid approximately $4,200 to bail out every single fan that was arrested when cops invaded the crowd on a pot bust during one of their concerts.

Another song by Mike and The Mechanics that you like

Silent Running-song by Mike and The Mechanics.( This song has the line ' Can You Hear Me Running')

Quote from Charlie Munger

If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path,you will never wish to come back.It would be like cutting off your hands.-Charlie Munger

Quote on nature

In nature,nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.Trees can be Contorted,bent in weird ways,and they're still beautiful.- Alice Walker

Quote from Alice Oswald

The Greeks thought of language as a veil which protects us from the brightness of things,I think poetry is a tear in that veil.-Alice Oswald

Quote from Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming--Suddenly you find - at the age of 50,say-that a whole new life has opened before you.-Agatha Christie

Black and indigenous people in Canada

Black people make up 3 % of the population in Canada in 2020 but make up 7 % of the federal inmate population.Indigenous people make up 5 % of the population in Canada in 2020 but make up 30 % of the federal inmate population.

Quote from Marvin J.Ashton

Home should be an anchor,a port in a storm,a refuge,a happy place in which to dwell,a place where we are loved and where we can love.-Marvin J.Ashton

Interesting website

https://goodblacknews.org

Quote from Bill Gates

Technology is just a tool.In terms of getting the kids to work together and motivating them,the teacher is the most important.-Bill Gates

Quote from Alex Sanchez

The church should just stay out of people's pants.-Alex Sanchez,THE GOD BOX.

Quote from Audre Lorde

When patriarchy dismisses us,it encourages our murderers.-Audre Lorde

Quote from Robin Chase

That's the key to new and good ideas;they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.-Robin Chase

Quote from Rumi

The quieter you become,the more you are able to hear.-Rumi

Quote from Nestor Santa Cruz

Repurposing and restyling are what make a home personal.-Nestor Santa Cruz

Quote from Michael Pollan

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions.This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see,at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture.A reigning ideology is a little like all the weather:all pervasive and virtually inescapable.-Michael Pollan

Quote from George Packer

The next great technology revolution might be around the corner,but it won't automatically improve most people's lives.That will depend on politics,which is indeed ugly but also inescapable-George Packer

Wales

Q.What is the highest mountain in Wales? Answer.Snowdon

Quote from Cornell Woolrich

It's just some instinct as old as fear:you seek the dark when you hide,you seek the light when the need to hide is gone.All the animals have it too.-Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968)

Great quote from Warren Buffett

The typical large company has a compensation committee,They don't look for Dobermans on that committee,they look for chihuahuas..-Warren Buffett

Quote on chihuahuas

A chihuahua.They're good. If you lose one,just empty out your purse.-Jean Carroll

Quote on time

Time is strange.A moment can be as short as a breath,or as long as eternity.-Cornell Woolrich,novelist.

Interesting quote on academics

Academics are not intellectuals;they are not curious,they build their stolid tents of specialised knowledge and stay securely in them.-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Quote from Langston Hughes

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty,trade unions,color,colour lines and colonies,somebody tells the police.-Langston Hughes

Quote on the language

The language is perpetually in flux:it is a living stream,shifting,changing,receiving new strength from a thousand tributaries,losing old forms in the backwaters of time.-William Shrunk Jr.

Quote from Carl Sagan

Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing,sometimes even a zest,for life.-Carl Sagan

Quote on politics

Politics is just a function of business now,just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.-David Hare

A song from 1985 that I like

Taken In(1985)- song by Mike and The Mechanics.

Quote from Goldie Hawn

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.-Goldie Hawn

Quote from Charlotte Bronte

I would always rather be happy than dignified.-Charlotte Bronte,JANE EYRE.

Fastest species in water

Fastest species in water-The Sailfish.

Quote from Libba Bray

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.-Libba Bray

Quote from Frank Sonnenberg

Pull out the weeds,or make peace with the dandelions.-Frank Sonnenberg,LISTEN TO YOUR CONSCIENCE.

Quote from Shirley MacLaine

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.-Shirley MacLaine

Quote from Margery Sharp

There is nothing so intractable as a calendar.-Margery Sharp

Quote on consciousness

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.-Thomas Nagel

Quote from Margaret Mead

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology of war;but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.-Margaret Mead

Quote from Bernard Kelvin Clive

Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams.-Bernard Kelvin Clive

Quote from Janet Malcolm

The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our eternal life.When we die,the kernel is buried with us.This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.-Janet Malcolm

Quote from Agatha Christie

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet,unassuming people.Delightful fellows.-Agatha Christie

Quote from Helen Rowland

It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.-Helen Rowland

Quote on capitalism

We live in capitalism.Its power seems inescapable.So did the divine right of kings.Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.-Ursula K.LeGuin

Quote from Joseph Addison

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.-Joseph Addison

Quote from David Levithan

Your life is inescapable,unless you decide to escape it.-David Levithan

Quote from Robert Silverberg

Thus does the unyielding,inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.-Robert Silverberg

Quote from Edward Young

A prince indebted is a fortune made.-Edward Young

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Joy Davidman

Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs,our denatured food,our death trap automobiles and houses,our lung-rotting cities,must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.-Joy Davidman

Quote from Geoff Mulgan

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy-who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves?But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.-Geoff Mulgan

Quote from Wendell Barry

If a healthy soil is full of death,it is also full of life: worms,fungi,microorganisms,of all kinds----Given only the health of the soil,nothing that dies is dead for very long.-Wendell Barry

Quote from Henry George

Charity is false,futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.-Henry George

Quote from June Stoyer

In a world full of roses,stand out like a dandelion in the middle of a plush,green lawn!- June Stoyer

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is stored in cells in the body;it is a fat-soluble vitamin.

Dandelions

Dandelions are not weeds,but are from the same family as sunflowers .,,Up until the 1800's,dandelions were seen as extremely beneficial.People would remove grass to plant dandelions.

Quote from Donald Miller

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus,and though I tried to sleep it out,there was no resisting the epiphanies.-Donald Miller

Quote on secrets

Secrets can be poisonous.-James Scott

Quote from Randy Alcorn

Teach your children gratefulness.Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.-Randy Alcorn

A song by The Who that you love

Won't Get Fooled Again(1971)-Song by The Who.

Quote on racism

Racism isn't getting worse,it's getting filmed.-Will Smith

Quote from Rod Serling

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.-Rod Serling

Quote from Colson Whitehead

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.-Colson Whitehead

Quote from Bryan Stevenson

Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done.My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth;the opposite of poverty is justice.-Bryan Stevenson

Quote from Vaclav Smith

---no matter how complex or affluent,human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere,the Earth's thin veneer of life,which is ultimately run by bacteria and fungi and green plants.-Vaclav Smith

Venezuelans living in Colombia

There are 1.8 million migrants and refugees from neighboring Venezuela living in Colombia in March 2021.Anti-immigrant sentiment is growing in Colombia.Many Colombians blame Venezuelans for the rising crime rate there;some Colombians blame Venezuelan migrants for stealing their jobs.

Germany and Poland

Q.Which river forms the border between Germany and Poland? Answer.The Oder

Rare zebras

Not all zebras are striped;some of them have polka dots.

Fireflies

Fireflies have a unique enzyme called luciferase that gives them their glow or bioluminiscence.

Chinese proverb

The twisted tree lives its life,while the straight tree ends up in planks.-Chinese proverb

Quote from Tim Ferriss

Poisonous people do not deserve your time.To think otherwise is masochistic.-Tim Ferriss

Quote from Elbert Hubbard

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life,nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.-Elbert Hubbard

Message seen on T-shirt

4 out of 3 people struggle with math.-Seen on a T-shirt

Quote from Dodinsky

A liar's worst enemy is someone with a good memory.-Dodinsky

Quote from Charles Bukowski

We don't even ask for happiness,just a little less pain.-Charles Bukowski,LETTER TO WILLIAM PACKARD,July 1985.

Quote on racism

Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.-Michael R.French

Quote on tunnel vision

Tunnel vision is caused by an optic focus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego.It is complicated by exposure to politics.-Tom Robbins

Quote on the kitchen

The most poisonous source in any kitchen is a chef's ego.-Marco Pierre White

Quote on politics

Politics is a deleterious profession,like some poisonous handicrafts.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote on cars

The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams.-Evan Esar