Quote on books

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors,and the most patient of teachers.-Charles W.Eliot

Underrated song by Mary Wells that I like

I Want You 'Round-song by Mary Wells

An obscure old song by The Gaylords that I like

Mecque,Mecque-song by The Gaylords

American conservative talk show host dies of COVID-19 in Tennessee

Conservative talk show host Phil Valentine died of COVID-19 in Nashville,Tennessee after a month-long battle with the disease.He was only 61.He was a vaccine skeptic and was not vaccinated.He had refused to get vaccinated and urged his followers not to get vaccinated too.Another life sadly cut short by COVID-19!

Quote from Shelby Foote

A fact is not a truth until you love it.-Shelby Foote,WILLIAM C.CARTER(1989),CONVERSATIONS WITH SHELBY FOOTE,page 248,University Press of Mississippi.

Quote on fact

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.-Charles Olson(1910-1970)

Quote from Nina Simone

Having as little to do with human beings as possible-in some weird way,I'm at peace.-Nina Simone

Quote from Elizabeth Gilbert

This is a good sign,having a broken heart.It means we have tried for something.-Elizabeth Gilbert

Quote from Shelby Foote

I abhor the idea of a perfect world.It would bore me to tears.-Shelby Foote

Quote from Denis Johnson

I was so flooded with yearning I thought it would drown me.-Denis Johnson

Quote from Abraham Lincoln

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.-Abraham Lincoln

Quote from Flannery O'Connor

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about him to last him the rest of his days.-Flannery O'Connor,MYSTERY AND MANNERS.

Quote from Henry Miller

To make living itself an art,that is the goal.-Henry Miller

Erin O'Toole's namesake

Colorado radio talk show host Erin O'Toole shares the same name as Canadian Conservative Party Leader Erin O'Toole in 2021.Strangely,the talk show host Erin O'Toole has the same birthday as Canadian politician Erin O'Toole,January 22.

Song from Tomorrow's Keepsake that you find quirky

Eat YOur Hotdog Boy(1969)-song by Tomorrow's Keepsake.

Quote from Kenneth Arrow

Studying oneself is not the most comfortable of enterprises.-Kenneth Arrow

Quote from Orson Scott Card

It is the downfall of evil,that it never sees far enough ahead.-Orson Scott Card

Frank Hayes

In 1923,a jockey called Frank Hayes suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race,making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.

Quote on satire

Satire is meant to ridicule power.If you are laughing at people who are hurting,It's not satire,It's bullying.-Terry Pratchett

Quote from Shelby Foote

When you're working very hard you're not lonely;you are the whole damn world.-Shelby Foote

Quote from Emily Dickinson

After a great pain,a formal feeling comes.-Emily Dickinson

Purple tomatoes

Did you know that you can grow purple tomatoes?Called Indigo Rose, this variety is prized for its higher antioxidant levels and stunning color.The flesh inside is a reddish-purple and tastes similar to the bright red classic.

Quote from Jim Jarmusch

I drink a lot of coffee before I go to sleep.So I can dream faster.-from the movie COFFEE AND CIGARETTES(2003),Jim Jarmusch

Quote from Hugh Laurie

It's a terrible thing,I think in life to wait until you're ready.I have this feeling that actually no one is ever ready to do anything.There is almost no such thing as ready.There is only now.-Hugh Laurie

Quote from Charles Olson

People don't change.They only stand more revealed.-Charles Olson

Quote from Don DeLillo

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.-Don DeLillo,WHITE NOISE.

Quote from Alice Oswald

I notice the fatigue of flowers weighed down by light.-Alice Oswald

Quote from Jeanette Winterson

The curious are always in some danger.If you are curious,you might never come home.-Jeanette Winterson

Quote from Kay Ryan

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable.A place with its own harvest.-Kay Ryan

Uneasy feeling

Ron Newman,of Chatham,Kent,was sentenced to 140 hours'community service by Croydon Crown Court after admitting hitting his friend over the head with a guitar because he kept playing the wrong chord in the Eagles song 'PEACEFUL,EASY FEELING.'

1980

Did you realise that 1980 and 2021 are as far apart as 1980 and 1939?

427th list of 10 French songs you like

1.Paranoia-Véronique Sanson

2.Tropique-Muriel Dacq

3.Alors Je Danse-Stromae

4.Je Craque-Muriel Dacq

5.La Barrière Des Générations-Richard Anthony(This song is a French version of the Mike and The Mechanics hit 1989 song 'THE LIVING YEARS.')

6.Dans L'Eau de Nice(1983)-Alec Mansion

7.Trop Triste(1983)-Alec Mansion

8.Raconte Une Histoire qui finit bien-Michel Sardou

9.Je Pense Aux Vacances-Claudette et Sylvie

10.Tu Me Regretteras(1964)-Claudette et Sylvie.

Bowel movement

For proper bowel movement,you need water and fibre.If you don't consume enough fluids your body will attempt to conserve fluid,and this can lead to constipation.

The celebrity Ken Allen

Ken Allen,an orangutan,became famous for escaping from his enclosure at the San Diego Zoo three times in 1985.He would peacefully stroll around the zoo looking at other animals and never acted aggressively.Other animals even followed his lead and began escaping,too.He was nicknamed ''the Hairy Houdini.''

The teddy bear that saved a family

When the Butzke family fled Austria in 1940,they sewed valuables into their son's teddy bear.When German soldiers tried to take the bear,the boy screamed until it was thrown back at him.The valuables helped them start a new life when they immigrated to the U.S.

Former chess prodigy

A 8 year-old chess prodigy,Samuel H.Reshevsky,played chess simultaneously with several chess masters in France,1920.He defeated all of them.

A murderous sleepwalker

In 1987,Kenneth Parks,a 23 year-old Canadian,drove to and killed his mother-in-law and almost choked his father-in-law to death all while sleepwalking.In 1992,he was shockingly acquitted of the murder.

Former Liberian President Charles King

Former Liberian President,Charles King,is listed in The Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history,having won the 1927 election with 234,000 votes in a country with 15,000 registered voters.

Quote from Thomas Merton

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.That is not our business,and in fact,it is nobody's business.What we are asked to do is to love,and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if any thing can.-Thomas Merton

Quote on aging

 I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying---How much time do I have left?We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain,coasting toward our final days.-Elizabeth Lesser

Quote from Stephanie S.Tolan

 Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot '' cure'' without curing the gift at the same time.-Stephanie S.Tolan

Quote from Pippa Middleton

 As I have found out,recognition has its upside,its downside and you may say-its backside.-Pippa Middleton

Quote from Bill Vaughan

 In the game of life,it's a good idea to have a few early losses,which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.-Bill Vaughan

Quote from Bill Watterson

 We seem to understand the value of oil,timber,minerals ,and housing,but not the value of unspoiled beauty,wildlife ,solitude,and spiritual renewal.-Bill Watterson,CALVIN AND HOBBES.

MARGORIE MCCALL LIVED ONCE,BURIED TWICE.

 In 1695,Margorie McCall caught fever and believed to be dead,her family held a wake and promptly buried her.Soon after she was laid to rest,grave robbers ,who regularly ransacked newly buried coffins,dug her up and attempted to steal a valuable ring she was wearing.Unable to remove the ring from her finger,the robbers decided to cut the finger off.But as they began their gruesome task,the Margorie awoke and scared the devil out of the grave robbers..Margorie got out of her grave,she then dusted herself off  and went home,but when she got there her husband nearly died of shock.Margorie lived on and even had another child after her ordeal,before being buried once more in what proved to be her final resting place.

Quote from George Foreman

 The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.-George Foreman

Quote from Tina Brown

 There is nobody more boring than the undefeated.-Tina Brown

Quote from Melissa Auf Der Maur

 But everything you do in life has a downside.-Melissa Auf der Maur

Quote from Barry Levinson

 There's no downside to having too much experience.-Barry Levinson

Asch conformity experiments provide valuable insight

 The Asch conformity experiments were a series of psychological experiments conducted by Solomon Asch during the 1950s.----Asch found that people were willing to ignore reality and give an incorrect answer in order to conform to the rest of this group.

Cellist Pablo Casals

 The legendary cellist Pablo Casals was asked why he continued to practice at age 90.

                                        '' Because I think I'm making progress,'' he replied.

Interaction with writer Flannery O' Connor

Someone wrote a letter to Flannery O'Connor complaing that '' your book left a bad taste in your mouth.''

                                     Flannery wrote back '' You weren't supposed to eat it.''

Quote on writers

 The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.-Donald Miller

Quote from Rachel Maddow

 The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.-Rachel Maddow

Quote from Pat Conroy

 There is no downside to winning.It feels forever fabulous.-Pat Conroy

Underrated song by Mary Wells that I love

 Once Upon A Time-song by Mary Wells and Marvin Gaye.

                                                   This song contains the lines 'Now my skies are blue/All because of you/ I was lonely once upon a time.'

Public transport free

Luxembourg recently became the first country in the world to make all public transport free.As of March 1,2020,all buses,trains and trams throughout the country can be boarded without paying a fare-the largest area to institute free public transport for both residents and tourists so far.

An obscure song by Bill Haley and His Comets that you like

Dim Dim The Lights-song by Bill Haley And His Comets.

Sears more than a hundred years ago

In the 1910's,Sears offered mail order houses.YOu could select the house of your choice,then Sears would ship it to you by railroad.The parts were then assembled by the individual,based on the instructions.

Message seen on T-shirt

I don't need Google my wife knows everything.-Message seen on T-shirt.

The Indonesian Island of Tana Toraja

On the Indonesian island Tana Toraja,if a baby dies before he/she starts teething, the family cuts a hole in a tree and places the dead child inside.The tree regrows around the baby and absorbs it.

Radioactive contamination

Due to radioactive contamination,Marie Curie's research papers are too dangerous to handle;they're currently stored in lead-lined boxes and to view them,people must wear protective clothing.

Quote from Akwaeke Emezi

I learned that being gentle with myself is part of the productivity----Rest isn't a guilty luxury,it's a necessity.-Akwaeke Emezi

Ignoble history of Mount Rushmore

Before the Presidents' faces were carved into Mount Rushmore,it was called The Six Grandfathers,part of The Sacred Black Hills of the Lakota Tribe.The U.S.Government seized the land illegally in 1877,after gold had been discovered there.President Ulysses Grant secretly ordered the army not to protect local tribes,as bounty hunters collected up to $300 for each Native American killed.The carving of four presidents into the hills took place in the 1920's ,funded in part by the Ku Klux Klan.

Quote from Sheila Graham Westbrook

Food,sex and liquor create their own appetite.-Sheila Graham Westbrook(1904-1988),newspaper columnist.

Quote from Jane Wyman

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.-Jane Wyman

Quote from Sheryl Sandberg

The upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.-Sheryl Sandberg

Quote from Federico Garcia Lorca

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.-Federico Garcia Lorca,Spanish poet.

Quote on violence

Violence does not always take visible form,and not all wounds gush blood.-Haruki Murakami,1Q84.

Quote from Bill Bullard

Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge.It requires no accountability,no understanding.

                                The highest form of knowledge is empathy,for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world.

                                  It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.-Bill Bullard

                          

The extraordinary athlete Ivan Fernandez

In the London Summer Olympics of 2012 Abel Mutai was only a few minutes from the finish line of the 3,000 meters steeple chase raceI,but got confused with the signs and stopped,thinking he finished the race.Ivan Fernandez was behind him,and realizing what's going on,started shouting to the Kenyan to keep running.Mutai didn't know Spanish.Ivan Fernandez pushed Mutai to victory.How extraordinary!

Quote from Mary Oliver

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.-Mary Oliver

Hans Island

Hans Island has been disputed territory between Canada and Denmark for nearly 100 years.Both countries periodically visit to remove the other guy's flag and leave a bottle of DAnish schnapps or Canadian whiskey as a gift.

Joy Milne's remarkable ability to smell disease

In 2015,a woman named Joy Milne claimed she could smell Parkinson's disease.To test her,doctors gave her 12 T-shirts to smell.Six of them were from Parkinson's patients.She correctly identified the six shirts,but also chose one more T-shirt.Eight months later that person was diagnosed with Parkinson's.

Quote from Christopher Hitchens

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason,we would be living in a quite different world.-Christopher Hitchens

Quote from Emily Dickinson

I am out with lanterns,looking for myself.-Emily Dickinson

Quote from Dorothy Parker

Look at him,a rhinestone in the rough.-Dorothy Parker

Unusually kind champion javelin thrower

Javelin thrower Maria Andrejcyk auctioned off her Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games silver medal for $1,25,000 to help an infant in her native Poland get life-saving heart surgery.Zabka,a Polish supermarket chain,won the auction and decided to give the medal back to her.Kudos to Zabka.

Quote from Emily Jones

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day;Teach a man to fish and he'll empty the seas by 2050 and we'll all die.

         You should teach a man to cook lentils.-Emily Jones@theveganist

The Salpa Maggiore

The Salpa Maggiore is a bizarre,translucent fish.

Quote from Bertrand Russell

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts-the less you know the hotter you get.-Bertrand Russell

Quote from Sheila Graham

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.-Sheila Graham

Quote from Wendell Barry

If you are fearful of the destruction of the environment,then learn to quit being an environmental parasite.-Wendell Barry

Quote from Joyce Carol Oates

 Memory blurs,that's the point.If memory didn't blur you wouldn't  have the fool's courage to do things again,again,again,that tear you apart.-Joyce Carol Oates,from WE WERE THE MULVANEYS(Plume,1997).

A penguin hoax in Florida

In 1948,a man called Tony Signorini wore 30-pound,three-toed lead shoes and stomped around on a Florida beach during the night.The footprints led people to believe that a 15-foot tall penguin was roaming their lands.He kept up the prank for 10 years,visiting various beaches.The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later,in 1988.

                        Tony Signorini died in 2013.

In Beijing

In Beijing you can pay for the train with water bottles for recycling.

Seoul

In Seoul,the gas pumps hang from the roof.

Quote from Elisabeth Elliot

Sometimes fear does not subside and you must do it afraid.-Elisabeth Elliot

Quote from Ludwig Wittgenstein

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists,but even if it does what problem this really solves.-Ludwig Wittgenstein

Quote from Herta Muller

Anything in literature,including memory,is second-hand.-Herta Muller

Mystery solved by French bee keepers

In 2012 French bee keepers could not solve the mystery of the blue and green colored honey in their beehives until they discovered that the bees were visiting a local M & M factory.

Female mummies in ancient Egypt

The Female mummies in ancient Egypt were always more decomposed than their male counterparts.This was because the male bodies were embalmed a lot sooner than the female bodies.Female bodies were kept at the family home until they started to decompose in order to avoid necrophilia.

A sad victim of COVID-19 in Tajikistan

64 year-old Qurbonbi Rahmonova,the sister of Tajikistan president Emomali Rahmon sadly died on July 20,2021.She has COVID-19. After that nephews of Tajikistan's President severely beat the health minister.

Valley of the Dolls

In the Japanese village of Nagoro,dolls outnumber people.A local artist creates life-size replicas of the residents as they move away or die.

Happy pizza

Happy pizza is a pizza sold in Cambodia topped with marijuana.

Quote from Alan Watts

There will always be suffering.But we must not suffer over the suffering.-Alan Watts

Quote from Tom Bissell

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.-Tom Bissell

Quote from Leslie Miklosy

Follow the siren's call and you'll probably ennd up in the hospital.-Leslie Miklosy

Quote from Guy McPherson

If you really think that the environment is less important than the economy,try holding your breath while you count your money.-Guy McPherson

Quote from Peter McArthur

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.-Peter McArthur

Quote from Helen Mirren

Before you argue with someone,ask yourself,is that person even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of a different perspective.Because if not there's absolutely no point.-Mrs.Helen Mirren

Quote from Robert Byrne

Everything is in a state of flux,including the status quo.-Robert Byrne

Quote from Mike Juarez

When the roots are deep,there is no reason to fear the wind.-Mike Juarez

Quote from John Lilly

In the province of the mind,what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.-John Lilly

Quote from Toni Morrison

Don't beg anybody for anything,especially love.-Toni Morrison

Quote from Andy Warhol

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.-Andy Warhol

Quote on paranoia

There is no such thing as paranoia.Your worst fears can come true at any moment.-Hunter S.Thompson

Quote from Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.-Annie Dillard

Quote from Edward Abbey

Freedom begins between the ears.-Edward Abbey

An old song from 1971 that I like

Huntsville(1971)-song by Merle Haggard

A song from Jane Siberry that you love

Everything Reminds Me Of My Dog-song by Jane Siberry

Quote from William McDonough

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones.It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.-William McDonough

Great help for the Lithuanian basketball team

After the breakup of the USSR,the Lithuanian basketball team couldn't afford to participate in the 1992 Olympics,so The Grateful Dead funded the team's expenses and sent a box of tie-dyed outfits in Lithuania's national colors.Oh they went on to win bronze.How wonderful!

John F.Kennedy's brain

President John F.Kennedy's brain was removed and stored in the National Archive after his autopsy.The brain was subsequently lost and remains missing to this day.

Australian rower Bobby Pearce and his kindness

In the 1928 Summer Olympics,Australian rower Bobby Pearce stopped during a rowing race to allow a family of ducks to pass.He still won out of eight competitors in that round.

Wetlands and forests

Wetlands and forests absorb a lot of manmade carbon dioxide emissions.

Vladimir The Great of Russia

Vladimir The Great of Russia was confronted with the choice of coverting Russia to Christianity or to Islam.He eventually chose Christianity,because of Islamic teaching on alcohol,saying ,''Drinking is the joy of all Russians.We cannot exist without that pleasure.''

A woman in medical school

50 years before women were allowed to enroll into medical school,Margaret Ann Bulkey dressed as a man for 56 years to study medicine as '' Dr James Barry.''It was only when she died in 1865 that her secret was exposed after 46 years working as an army medical officer.

Beer in Russia

In Russia,beer was classified as a soft drink,not alcohol,until 2011.

Reward in Barbados

When you reach 100 years old in Barbados,you get a stamp in your honour.

Syndrome K

'Syndrome K' was a fake disease made up by Italian doctors to save Jews who had fled to their hospital seeking protection from the Nazis.They were quarantined,and the Nazis believed it was a deadly,disconfiguring and highly contagious illness.

Quote from Virginia Woolf

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own,with pictures and music and everything beautiful.-Virginia Woolf,THE VOYAGE OUT.

Quote from Ursula K.LeGuin

I talk about the gods.I am an atheist. I am an artist too and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say.I am telling the truth.-Ursula K.LeGuin

The Shabaks

The Shabaks,an ethnic group in Iraq,number around 3,00,000 in 2021.They speak a mixture of Arabic,Persian,Kurdish and Turkmen.They mostly practise Shia Islam.

                                       Their origin is unclear.Many Iraqis see them as foreigners.But the Shabaks consider themselves a distinct group with unique religious traditions.

                                        The Shabaks are a long-persecuted religious minority.Saddam Hussein saw them as a threat;he began a campaign of forced assimilation and displacement against them and had many Shabaks locked away in detention camps.

                                      As nonSunni Muslims The Shabaks were also persecuted by ISIS.The Shabaks actually formed militia units to beat back ISIS and drive them out of their territory.

Evia island

Evia Island is a heavily forested mountainous island,Greece's second largest island. In August 2011,the northern part of Evia island has been ravaged by devastating wildfires and its forests largely destroyed.Also destroyed in the wildfires were the famous honey hives in the forests of northern Evia.So sad and tragic!

Children exposed to family violence

Children exposed to family violence show the same patterns of brain activity as soldiers who have been in combat.

Surviving in extreme heat

To survive the extreme heat some people put an ice pack into their clothes.

Living in total darkness

If you lived in complete darkness,your body would eventually adjust to a 48-hour day where you stay awake for 36 hours and then sleep for 12.

Trifecta for a couple from England

In 2001,a couple from England,Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence,went on a holiday to New York when the World Trade Center was attacked.Later on July 7,2005,they went on another holiday to London when four British suicide bombers attacked the underground and the bus network.Again in 2008,they were in Mumbai when the city was attacked by terrorists on the night of November 26.

Quote from Denis Parsons Burkitt

The frying pan you should give to your enemy.Food should not be prepared in fat.Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.-Denis Parsons Burkitt

Quote from Thomas Metzinger

Retribution is really a stone age concept.-Thomas Metzinger

Quote from Bob Dylan

Be groovy or leave,man.-Bob Dylan

Quote from Valerie Clague

If I finish my day with no garden dirt under my fingernails and nothing new learned,it is a day wasted.-Valerie Clague

Ella Harper

Ella Harper,professionally known as the ''Camel Girl'',was born with a rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backward.Her preference to walk on all fours resulted in her nickname ''Camel Girl'',and she appeared in many travelling circus shows.Harper received a $200 week salary.

Francesco Lentini

A guy named Francesco Lentini had three legs,four feet,sixteen toes and two sets of functioning male genitals.He worked for the circus and lived to the age of 78.

Quote from Amit Abraham

 We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone-hearted people.-Amit Abraham

Quote from E.O.Wilson

 We exist in a bizarre combination of stone Age emotions,medieval beliefs and God-like technology.-E.O.Wilson

He never learned how to drive

 The person who invented the stop sign,the pedestrian crosswalk,the traffic circle,the one-way street,the taxi stand and pedestrian safety islands, William Phelps Eno, never learned how to drive.

Another great dies of pancreatic cancer

 Canadian hockey player Tony Esposito died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 78 in August 2021.He played for The Chicago Blackhawks for most of his career.

Cuban cigars

 John F.Kennedy purchased 1,200 Cuban cigars for personal use just hours before he made them illegal.

Miami

 Miami is the only major American city that was founded by a woman. Julia Tuttle, a woman from Cleveland,purchased 640 acres in present-day downtown Miami to start a new chapter in her life after her husband died.For this reason,she is called " Mother of Miami."

The sleepless elite

 1-3% of the population are known as the sleepless elite.The group of people routinely gets 6 hours or less of sleep daily and remain totally functional.

The Philippines

 If you spent one day on each of the islands in the Philippines, it would take you almost 21 years to visit them all.

The difference between poisonous and venomous

The difference between poisonous and venomous animals:If you bite it and you die,it's poisonous.If it bites you and you die,it's venomous.

Quote from Mark Twain

The unspoken word is capital.We can invest it or we can squander it.-Mark Twain

Quote from Virginia Woolf

To enjoy freedom ---we have of course to control ourselves.We must not squander our powers,helplessly and ignorantly,squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.-Virginia Woolf

Quote from Margaret Heffernan

When you use words loosely,without care and consideration,you erode trust in yourself,and in what you're saying.When you squander words,you diminish your power.-Margaret Heffernan

Quote from Walter Savage Landor

The writing of the wise are the only riches our prosperity cannot squander.-Walter Savage Landor

Quote from Oscar Wilde

Don't squander the gold of your days,listening to the tedious,trying to improve the hopeless failure,or giving away your life to the ignorant,the common,and the vulgar.-Oscar Wilde

Quote on hypochondriacs

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.-Mortimer Collins

Quote from Wynonna Judd

Silence is refreshment.-Wynonna Judd

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

In God,every end is converted into a new means.Thus the use of commodity,regarded by itself,is mean and squalid.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from George Orwell

Lack of money means discomfort,means squalid worries,means shortage of tobacco,means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all,it means loneliness.-George Orwell

Quote from Margaret Thatcher

You don't tell deliberate lies,but sometimes you have to be evasive.-Margaret Thatcher

Quote from Marie Von Ebner -Eschenbach

Do not fear the ones who argue,but rather those who are evasive.-Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Quote from Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is,the shorter the range of his interests.-Ayn Rand

Quote on happiness

Happiness is in the quiet,ordinary things.a table,a chair,a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages.and the petal falling from the rose,and the light flickering as we sit silent.-Virginia Woof,THE WAVES.

Quote from Christian Bovee

Doubt whom you will,but never yourself.-Christine Bovee

Quote from Alan Watts

All moral preaching is confusion.-Alan Watts

Quote from Josiah Stamp

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities,but we cannot dodge the consequence of dodging our responsibilities.-Josiah Stamp

Quote from E.Bucchianeri

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.-E.Bucchianeri

Quote from Vanilla Ice

Anything less than the best is a felony.-Vanilla Ice

Quote from Margo Kaufman

I think bad taste should be a felony.-Margo Kaufman

Quote from Robert Benchley

Drinking makes such fools of people,and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.-Robert Benchley

Quote from Bill Murray

The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their icecream.-Bill Murray

Quote from Noam Chomsky

 The world is a very puzzling place.If you are not willing to be puzzled,you just become a replica of someone else's mind.-Noam Chomsky

Insightful quote from Lillian B.Rubin

 For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives,the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.-Lillian B.Rubin

Interesting quote on normality

 Normal is a word invented by boring people to make them feel better about being boring.-Lauren Oliver,REPLICA.

Quote from Jodi Picoult

 The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark.It's more fragile and unreal,a replica of the one every one else inhabits.-Jodi Picoult

Gamblers

 Recreational gamblers and occasional gamblers gamble small amounts of money.

                But problem gamblers and gambling addicts gamble not only for the money but also for the excitement and the adrenalin rush.They want to show how smart they are.Problem gamblers do not know when to walk away and cut their losses,unlike occasional gamblers and recreational gamblers.Gambling addicts cannot stop.

                       Problem gamblers continue to gamble after losing money because they want to show how smart they are;they believe that by spending more money they can recoup lost money and win an even greater amount.

                         

Gambling addiction

Gambling addiction is a hidden addiction unlike alcohol addiction or drug addiction.You can't see it in their eyes and can't smell it on their breath.

                      Men are more prone to developing gambling problems than women because men are bigger risk takers.

Quote on artists

Artists are here to disturb the peace.-James Baldwin

Quote from William James

The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-is our national disease.-William James