Quote from Phyllis McGinley

Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank.Economy uses it only on important occasions,for fear of loss.Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure,but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.-Phyllis McGinley

Quote from Mark Nepo

Instead of Breaking

The glass blower knows:while in the heat of beginning,any shape is possible.Once hardened,the only way to change is to break.-Mark Nepo

Quote from Martin Luther King Jr

Darkness cannot drive out darkness:only light can do that.Hate cannot drive out hate:only love can do that.-Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote from Flannery O'Connor

Be properly scared and go on doing what you have to do.-Flannery O'Connor

Quote from Tennessee Williams

 There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.

           And then you accept it.Or you kill yourself,or you stop looking in mirrors.-Tennessee Williams

An obscure song from 1965 that I like

 Baby I Miss You(1965)-song by The Popsicles

Obscure song from 1964 that I like

 Wild and Wonderful(1964)-song by The Murmaids

Three semi-obscure,underrated songs from Jay and The Techniques that I like

 1.Keep The Ball Rolling(1967)-Jay and The Techniques

2.Stronger Than Dirt(1967)-Jay and The Techniques

3.Baby Make Your Own Sweet Music-Jay and The Techniques

Quote from Walter Cronkite on war

 War itself is,of course, a form of madness.It's hardly a civilized pursuit.It's amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.-Walter Cronkite

Insightful quote from Edward Said

 The power to narrate,or to block other narratives from forming and emerging,is very important to culture and imperialism,and constitutes one of the main connections between them.-Edward Said

Quote from Franz Kafka

 Books are a narcotic.-Franz Kafka

Quote from Seneca

 What progress,you ask,have I made?I have begun to be a friend to myself.-Seneca

Hyperthymesia

 Only 25 people are known to have Hyperthymesia.A condition that allows them to remember every detail of their lives.

Quote on writers

 Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.-Charles Bukowski

Quote from Marcus Aurelius

 The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say.Or think,or do.Only what you do.-Marcus Aurelius

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

 Those who can not change their minds can not  change anything.-George Bernard Shaw,playwright.

Quote from Miles Davis

 Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.-Miles Davis

The importance of Ukraine

Ukraine is a very important geopolitical player.In terms of territory Ukraine is half the size of continental Europe in 2021.Ukraine also provides 40% of the world's grain production.

                                   Ukraine is the bread basket of Europe.

Quote from Zadie Smith

Time is how you spend your love.-Zadie Smith

Quote from Henry Miller

Everybody says sex is obscene.The only true obscenity is war.-Henry Miller

Another quote from Anne Tyler

There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof,if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.-Anne Tyler,THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST.

Quote from Anne Tyler

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.-Anne Tyler(born 1941),American novelist.

Quote from Anne Tyler

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.-Anne Tyler(born 1941)

Quote from Fred Rogers

Often when you think you're at the end of something,you're at the beginning of something else.-Fred Rogers

Quote from Wallace Stevens

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.-Wallace Stevens

Quote from Czeslaw Milosz

Calm down.Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.-Czeslaw Milosz

Quote from Charles Bukowski

Sadness is caused by intelligence,the more you understand certain things,the more you wish you didn't understand them.-Charles Bukowski

Quote from Ken Kesey

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.-Ken Kesey

Quote from James Baldwin

Now,it is true that the nature of society is to create,among its citizens,an illusion of safety,but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion.Artists are here to disturb the peace.-James Baldwin

Quote from John Lithgow

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.-John Lithgow

Quote from Adam Smith

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.-Adam Smith

Quote from Shirley Maclaine

The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.-Shirley Maclaine

Quote from Kurt Vonnegut

If people think nature is their friend,then they sure don't need an enemy.-Kurt Vonnegut

Quote from Robert E.Howard

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.Civilization is unnatural.It is a whim of circumstance.And barbarism must always ultimately triumph.-Robert E.Howard

Spring water bottle

I rarely,rarely drink spring water from plastic bottles.But I was thirsty and did not too long ago consume a Kirkland Spring water plastic bottle.(I feel guilty for using plastic-but it was only the first time in the year).Of course,I recycled the plastic bottle afterwards.

Quote from Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

In youth we learn;in age we understand.-Marie Von Eschenbach

Quote from Sammy Davis Jr.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.-Sammy Davis Jr.

Quote from Mae West

Don't keep a man guessing too long-he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.-Mae West

Quote from Howard Zinn

War itself is the enemy of the human race.-Howard Zinn

Provocative quote from H.L.Mencken

 When a private citizen is robbed,a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift;when the government is robbed,the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before.-H.L.Mencken (1880-1956)

Quote on Vermont

 Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.-Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Quote from Oscar Wilde

 Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty.But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting.It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.-Oscar Wilde

Coffee prices

 Coffeeflation-Inflation in the price of coffee.

Breadflation

 Breadflation-Inflation in the price of bread.(The way bread prices are rising,going gluten-free or being a gluten-restricted diet is only an advantage).

Quote from Oscar Wilde

 Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise.The rich harp on the value of thrift,the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.-Oscar Wilde

Quote from Jim Rohn

 We must all suffer from one of two pains:the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.-Jim Rohn

Quote from Sonia Sabnis

 Always remember,you won't be able to heal unless you distance yourself from what's causing you pain.-Sonia Sabnis

Quote on stillness

 Stillness.One of the doors into the temple.-Mary Oliver

Quote from Mae West

 Every man I meet wants to protect me.I can't figure out what from.-Mae West

Quote from Lindy West

 We're all building our world,right now,in real time.Let's build it better.-Lindy West

Quote from Leo Buscaglia

 Too often we underestimate the power of a touch,a smile,a kind word,a listening ear,an honest compliment,or the smallest act of caring,all of which have the potential to turn a life around.-Leo Buscaglia

Quote from Gertrude Stein

 If you are too careful,you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over everything.-Gertrude Stein

Quote from Anne Wilson Schaef

 Good health is not something we can buy.However,it can be an extremely valuable savings account.-Anna Wilson Schaef

Quote from Richard Dawkins

 Complex,statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple,statistically probable things.-Richard Dawkins

Quote from George M.Cohan

 Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye.-George M.Cohan

Quote on racism

 Racism is taught in our society,it is not automatic.It is learned behaviour toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.-Alex Haley

Quote from Mary Tyler Moore

 Take chances,make mistakes.That's how you grow.Pain nourishes courage.You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.-Mary Tyler Moore

Quote on arithmetic

 Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.-Carl Sandburg

Quote from John Ashcroft

 If necessity is the mother of invention,it's the father of co-operation.-John Ashcroft

Song by Macy Gray that I love

 I Try-song by Macy Gray

Quote from Ann Tyler

 People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.-Ann Tyler

Quote from Barry Commoner

 Environmental pollution is an incredible disease.It can only be prevented.-Barry Commoner

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

 I never resist temptation,because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote from Letitia Elizabeth Landon

 Nothing so soon assembles the inhabitants of a house as a loud and sudden noise.-Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Quote from Mark Gough

 Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.-Mark Gough

Quote from Emmanuel Macron

 When politics is no longer a mission but a profession,politicians become more self-serving than public servants.-Emmanuel Macron

Quote from Bertolt Brecht

 Art is not a mirror to hold up to society,but a hammer with which to shape it.-Bertolt Brecht

Quote from Ann Hood

 Grief soesn't have a plot.It isn't smooth.There is no beginning and middle and end.-Ann Hood

Quote on creativity

 Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.Art is knowing which ones to keep.-Scott Adams

Quote from Robertson Davies

 The world is full of people whose notion of a satisafactory future is in fact ,a return to the idealized past.-Robertson Davies

Quote from John Maynard Keynes

 If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble,competent people on  a level with dentists,that would be splendid.-John Maynard Keynes

Quote on family

 Family is not an important thing.It's everything.-Michael J.Fox

Quote from Bertrand Russell

 Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?-Bertrand Russell

Quote from Adlai Stevenson

 That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.-Adlai B.Stevenson

Quote from Dwight Eisenhower

 I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,only as one who has seen its brutality,its stupidity.-Dwight Eisenhower

Quote from Giannina Braschi

 If you want to know what love is,have a child.If you want to know what pain is,bury him.-Giannina Braschi

Quote from Marcus Garvey

 A people without the knowledge of their past history,origin and culture is like a tree without roots.-Marcus Garvey

Quote from John Maynard Keynes

 The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift,but profit.-John Maynard Keynes

Quote from Raj Patel

 The opposite of consumption isn't thrift.It's generosity.-Raj Patel

Quote from Robert Lembke

 Thrift:a way to spend money without having the least bit of pleasure from ité-Robert Lembke

Quote from George Eliot

 It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.-George Eliot

Quote on gardening

 A garden is a grand teacher.It teaches patience and careful watchfulness;it teaches industry and thrift;above all it teaches  entire trust.-Gertrude Jekyll

Quote from Oscar Wilde

 To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.-Oscar Wilde

Quote from Bette Davis

 Love is not enough.It must be the foundation,the cornerstone-but not the complete structure.It is much too pliable,too yielding.-Bette Davis

Quote on hatred

 Hatred is the anger of the weak.-Alphonse Daudet

Quote from Malcolm X

Usually when people are sad,they don't do anything.They just cry over their condition.But when they get angry,they bring about change.-Malcolm X

Two famous people died

 Q.Which actress died on the same day as singer Michael Jackson on June 25,2009?

Answer.Farah Fawcett

Quote from Harriet Tubman

 If you hear the dogs,keep going.If you see the torches in the woods,keep going.If there's shouting after you,keep going.Don't ever stop.Keep going.If you want a taste of freedom,keep going.-Harriet Tubman

Quote from James Baldwin

 You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you,not with its idea of you.-James Baldwin

Two Eileen Rodgers songs that I like

 1.I'm Alone Because I Love You-Eileen Rodgers

2.I'm Not Afraid Any more-Eileen Rodgers

First nuclear-powered submarine

 Nautilus-the first functional nuclear submarine.

Quote from Maya Angelou

 I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me" I love you."There is an African saying which is:" Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."- Maya Angelou

Quote from Sylvia Plath

 Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything ,it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.-Sylvia Plath

Quote on architecture

 Architecture is inhabited sculpture.-Constantin Brancusi

Some relatively little known Bobby Vinton songs that I like

 1.Serenade of the Bells(1968)- Bobby Vinton

2.Little Barefoot Boy(1968)- Bobby Vinton

3.Shangri-la(1968)- Bobby Vinton

4.College Town(1967)- Bobby Vinton

5.Theme from  the 1965 film "HARLOW"(Lonely Girl)'- Bobby Vinton

Quote from Marcus Aurelius

 Why should we feel anger at the world?As if the world would notice.-Marcus Aurelius

A Bobby Vinton song that I like

 Clinging Vine(1964)- song by Bobby Vinton.

Quote from Rae Mariz

 The world is a giant squinty eye,peeking in through the skylight spying.-Rae Mariz

A Bobby Vinton song from 1967 that I like

 Sweet Maria(1967)- song by Bobby Vinton.

Some old songs by Eileen Rodgers that I like

 1.Miracle of Love(1956)- Eileen Rodgers 

2.The Wall(1957)-Eileen Rodgers

3.Unwanted Heart(1956)- Eileen Rodgers

4.I Cry By Night(1960)- Eileen Rodgers

5.Older and Wiser(1960)- Eileen Rodgers

6.Crazy Dream(1957)- Eileen Rodgers

7.Wabash Blues- Eileen Rodgers

8.Third Finger Left Hand(1952)- Eileen

 Rodgers

9.The Phone Call- Eileen Rodgers

10.You Better Decide- Eileen Rodgers

11.That Ain't Right(1957)- Eileen Rodgers

12.Happy Love (1957)- Eileen Rodgers

Quote from Sylvester Stallone

 I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind,furious optimism.-Sylvester Stallone

An old Eileen Rodgers song that I like

 Careful Careful(Handle me with care)- song by Eileen Rodgers.

A song from 1967 that I like

 Sweet Maria(1967)- song by Billy Vaughn singers.

An obscure old song by Eileen Rodgers that I like

 The Nightingale Who Sang off key - song by Eileen Rodgers

Quote from Steven Wright

 I installed a skylight in my apartment--- the people who live above me are furious.-Steven Wright

Three underrated songs by Dee Clark that I like

 1.Nobody But You- Dee Clark

2.Just Keep It Up- Dee Clark

3.I'm Going Back to School(1962)- Dee Clark

Quote from Edward Shepherd Mead

 Not even computers will replace committees because committees buy computers.-Edward Shepherd Mead

Quote from John Cleese

 Why write about the past?Well,there's  more of it.-John Cleese  

Quote from John Cleese

 Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.-John Cleese

Some instrumental songs by Roberto Delgado that I like

 1. Sugar Sugar-Roberto Delgado

2.Wet Dream-Roberto Delgado

3.Yankee Dollar-Roberto Delgado

4.Paloma Blanca-Roberto Delgado

5.Pata Pata(1968)-Roberto Delgado

Quote from John Cleese

 If you want creative workers,give them enough time to play.-John Cleese

Quote from Mikhail Bakunin

 The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.-Mikhail Bakunin

Quote from Arnold H.Glasow

 One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.-Arnold H.Glasow

Quote from John Galsworthy

 A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.--John Galsworthy

A song from 1970 that I like

 We're All Playing In The Same Band(1970)- song by Bert Sommer.

Keyboard warriors

 Keyboard warriors spout off anonymously on the internet.

Two songs from Ray Stevens that I like

 1.Unwind(1968)- Ray Stevens

2.Sunday Mornin' Comin' (1969)- Ray Stevens

A song from 1956 that I like

 Stop Laughing At Me(1956)- song by Beverly Ross.

An instrumental song from 1965 that I love

 Peanuts(La  Cacahuata)(1965)- song by Sunglows.

Meatflation

 Meatflation-Inflation in the price of meat.

Two old songs from Jo Stafford I like

 1.You Belong To Me(1952)-song by Jo Stafford

2.No Other Love-Jo Stafford

Wonton humor

 I asked my friend to spell wonton backwards.

                 He said not now.-Rosalie Toleno,Greater Humor Club,FACEBOOK,February 9,2022.

Quote from Frank Leahy

 There are no shortcuts in life-only those we imagine.-Frank Leahy

Quote from Angela Duckworth

 There are no shortcuts to true excellence.-Angela Duckworth

Quote from Seth Godin

 Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.-Seth Godin

Quote from Gary Busey

 If you take shortcuts,you get  cut short.-Gary Busey

Quote from Stephen Covey

 You always reap what you sow,there is no shortcut.-Stephen Covey

Quote from Seth Godin

 Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours.-Seth Godin

Quote from Charles Buxton

 To make pleasures pleasant,shorten them.-Charles Buxton

The great Fauja Singh

Fauja Singh(born 1911),a British citizen, started running when he was 89 to cure his depression after his son Kuldip was killed in front of him in 1994 in a construction accident.

                              Fauja Singh is a vegetarian.Just before turning 102,he ran the Hong Kong Marathon in 1:32:28 as the world's oldest marathon runner.

                               Ironically as a child his legs were weak and thin and he could hardly walk long distances.He only started walking at the age of 5.

                                 What a remarkable man!

The far-sighted Ben Franklin

Benjamin Franklin left $2,000 to Boston and Philadelphia to help young people in those cities.But he stipulated in his will that the cities could not draw the balance for 200 years.In 1980,it was worth $6.5 million.The money has been used to fund scholarships,women's health,and help firefighters and disabled children.

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor;he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me.The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.-George Bernard Shaw,playwright.

Quote from Julie Burchill

Fact is,famous people say fame stinks because they love it so-like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.-Julie Burchill

Quote from Murray Rothbard

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.-Murray Rothbard

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Caroline Corr

Actually,I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.-Caroline Corr

Quote from Friedrich Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.-Friedrich Nietzsche

Holland,Michigan

The city of Holland,Michigan has 168 miles of tubing coiled underneath its streets circulating hot water in order to melt any snow on the ground.

Quote from Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.-Carl Jung

Quote from Jane Jacobs

You can't rely on bringing people downtown,you have to put them there.-Jane Jacobs

Quote from Jack White

People talk about wanting amenities-downtown is the amenity.-Jack White

Quote from Andy Warhol

Uptown is for people who have already done something.Downtown is where they're doing something now.I live uptown but I love downtown.-Andy Warhol

Quote from Larry Gelbart

One doesn't have a sense of humor.It has you.-Larry Gelbart

Song by Bruno Mars I like

Uptown Funk-song by Bruno Mars

A song by Phil Collins I like

Do You Remember-song by Phil Collins

A song from 1970 that I like

Lay A Little Lovin' on Me(1970)-song by Robin McNamara.

Quote from Reese Witherspoon

There's no bad consequence to loving fully,with all your heart.You always gain by giving love.-Reese Witherspoon,actress.

Quote on modern capitalism

Everything supposedly impressive about modern capitalism is underwritten by brutal,obscured coercion of working people.-Matt Lech@MattLech

Quote from Dave Cullen

The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations;in nonhostage crises,it's to lower emotions.-Dave Cullen

Quote on leaders

Leaders must embrace those they need the most versus holding them hostage.-Curt Coffman

Quote from Wayne Dyer

You can either be a host to God,or a hostage to your ego.It's your call.-Wayne Dyer

Quote on silence

Silence is pure and holy.It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.-Nicholas Sparks,THE NOTEBOOK(THE NOTEBOOK,=1)

Quote from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Too many of us treat guns with genial familiarity.Guns should give us the heebie-jeebies.They are killing machines.That is all they are.We should dread them the way we dread cancer and cyanide and electric chairs.-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Song by Mary J.Blige that I like

Family Affair-song by Mary J.Blige

Song by Daze that I used to like

Superhero Lover-song by Daze

Provoactive quote on religion

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses,it's the cyanide.-Tom Robbins

Quote from Kevin Ashton

But sales+ customers= Nothing Broken is a formula for corporate cyanide.-Kevin Ashton

Quote from Emil Cioran

I believe in the salvation of humanity,in the future of cyanide.-Emil Cioran

Quote from Frank Zappa

Hey ugly folks,go get some cyanide and die.-Frank Zappa

Quote from Alan Bradley

If poisons were ponies,I'd put my money on cyanide.-Alan Bradley

Quote from Les Brown

Forgive yourself first.Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind.Don't become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes.Don't remind yourself of what should have,could have or would have been.Release it and let it go.Move on.-Les Brown

Quote from Dean Koontz

When we love someone,we're held hostage by fate,because if we lose that person ,then we,too are lost.-Dean Koontz

Quote from Jim Harrison

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of Earth.-Jim Harrison

Quote from Mark Ruffalo

The working class folks and the poor,and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare.There is a lot to learn from them.-Mark Ruffalo

Quote from Ann Wertz Garvin

I think people should get married at the courthouse without a single person present and no fanfare whatsoever.Then if the couple makes it to ten years,they should have a big party.The whole shebang,white dress,flowers,cake of their dreams.After ten years they'd deserve it.-Ann Wertz Garvin

Quote from Jeff Guinn

Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare.Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you.An illusion is what needs all the bells and whistles to make itself appear grander than it really is,which is just a trick that can be explained.-Jeff Guinn

Quote from Tennessee Williams

With age comes the realization that nothing is as erotic,attractive,rare,or calming as kindness.-Tennessee Williams

Quote on hate

Hate,in the long run,is about as nourishing as cyanide.-Kurt Vonnegut

Quote from Duke Ellington

Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.-Duke Ellington

Quote on greatness

In most cases,true greatness is a silent and lonely affair,unaccompanied by the trumpeted fanfare of acclaim.-Richard Paul Evans

Quote from John Updike

The universe is a pointless,self-running machine,and we are insignificant byproducts,whom death will tuck back into oblivion,with or without holy fanfare.-John Updike

Busiest border crossing between Canada and the U.S.

The Ambassador Bridge is the busiest border crossing between the U.S. and Canada in 2021;it connects Detroit to Windsor.

Vancouver's historic black community

There has been a historic erasure of Vancouver's black community.

                                       Hogan's Alley in Vancouver's Eastside was once the home of the black community in Vancouver.In the 1960s as Vancouver expanded the city expropriated the land in Hogan's Alley;homes in Hogan's Alley were demolished and its residents were displaced.

Bandwagon

Some people jump off a bandwagon before it goes off a cliff.

Quote on pets

Your pet is not your friend.It is your hostage.-Scott Dikkers

Quote from Steven Wright

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide,is that considered a hostage situation?-Steven Wright

Quote from Neal A.Maxwell

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.-Neal A.Maxwell

Quote from Terri Guillemets

The color of springtime is flowers;the colour of winter is in our imagination.-Terri Guillemets

Quote from Elizabeth Galbut

Don't let rejection create self-doubt.The founder of Starbucks was turned down by 217 of the 242 investors he initially spoke with.-Elizabeth Galbut

Quote on newspapers

Newspapers,of course,need both news and fanfare.A blending of gossip and truth.-Paul Tobin

Quote from Chris Brogan

Celebrate small victories often.Mourn failures quickly.Do what's necessary without fanfare.-Chris Brogan

Quote from Jacques- Benigne Bossuet

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.-Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Quote from Thomas Shadwell

The haste of the fool is the slowest thing in the world.-Thomas Shadwell

Quote from Thomas Fuller

All doors open to courtesy.-Thomas Fuller

Quote from Dave Eggers

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos.I'd lose my mind.-Dave Eggers,A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS.

Quote from Chris Hayes

What you cannot conquer,circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle,because concrete does not sympathise.-Chris Hayes

Quote from Tom Clancy

We can not fail to win unless we fail to try.-Tom Clancy

Quote from Zora Hurston

If you are silent about the pain they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.-Zora Hurston

Quote from Carl Rogers

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am,then I can change.-Carl R.Rogers

Not drunk

 You're not drunk until you have to grab onto the grass to keep from falling off the earth.-from the Facebook page of  Mark Bootman,January 22,2022.

A song by Prince that I like

 Kiss-song by Prince and the Revolution.(This song contains the line 'You don't have to be rich to be my girl')

Quote from Kenneth E.Boulding

 Physicists only talk to physicists,economists to economists-worse still,nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and to econometricians to econometricians.One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblance of walled-in hermits,each mumbling to himself words in a private language,that only he can understand.-Kenneth E.Boulding,ILLUSTRATING ECONOMICS:BEASTS,BALLADS AND APHORISMS(2017),page 149,Routledge.

Quote from Anais Nin

 Love never dies a natural death.It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.It dies of illness and wounds;it dies of weariness,of witherings,of tarnishings.-Anais Nin

Cotard's Syndrome

Cotard's Syndrome is also called Walking Corpse Syndrome or Cotard's Delusion.

                  Cotard's Syndrome comprises any one of a series of delusions that range from a belief that one has lost organs,blood or body parts,to insisting that one has lost one's soul or is dead.Cases have been reported in patients with mood disorders,psychotic disorders and medical conditions.

Quote from Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.-Alan Watts

Fregoli Syndrome

Fregoli Syndrome is the delusional belief that one or more familiar persons,usually persecutors following the patient,repeatedly change their appearance.

Ataxophobia

Ataxophobia-The fear of disorder or untidiness. Someone who has an exaggerated sense of orderliness?They keep all their belongings in an order.

Disposophobia

Disposophobia is the fear of losing things or an intense fear of getting rid of stuff.

Betty the flamingo

Betty ,a flamingo at the National Zoo in Washington died at age 67 in February 2022.Sad news.

Flamingos

Flamingos are monogamous;they mate for life.

Quote from Elizabeth Gilbert

Ruin is a gift.Ruin is the road to transformation.-Elizabeth Gilbert

Quote from A.E.Housman

The saviours come not home tonight; Themselves they could not save.-A.E.Housman

Quote from Paul Collier

Without an informed electorate,politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities,rather than promoting real transformation.-Paul Collier,THE BOTTOM BILLION(2007),page 12.

Quote on elections

Elections determine who is in power,but they don't determine how power is used.-Paul Collier,THE BOTTOM BILLION:WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT,page 147.

Quote from Paul Collier

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.-Paul Collier

Quote from Paul Collier

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws.Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.-Paul Collier,THE BOTTOM BILLION(2007),page 139,Oxford University Press.

Interesting book on danger in the Himalayas

Lost In The Valley of Death:A Story of Obsession and Danger in The Himalayas(2022)-Book by Harley Rustad.

           Parvati Valley in the Himalayas is nicknamed 'The Bermuda Triangle of The Himalayas' and 'Valley of Death'.Many tourists have mysteriously disappeared or died in Parvati Valley.

                         Parvati Valley reputedly offers the best hashish in India and is the centre of a thriving drug trade.A hidden,nefarious trade happens in Parvati Valley in the Himalayas.

                           Many foreigners visit Parvati Valley in the Himalayas;they bathe in holy hot springs there and meditate in mountain temples.Foreigners often go there to seek spiritual enlightenment or find a higher power.

                        A very large number of the tourist disappearances in Parvati Valley have never been solved.

Quote from Kenneth E.Boulding

We make our tools,and then they shape us.-Kenneth E.Boulding

Quote on equilibrium

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.-Kenneth E.Boulding

Quote from Kenneth E.Boulding

The future is bound to surprise us,but we don't have to be dumbfounded.-Kenneth E.Boulding

Quote from Terence McKenna

Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.-Terence McKenna

Quote from Harry Shearer

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.-Harry Shearer(born 1943)

Quote from Reese Witherspoon

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes.It's bizarre.You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress.You can't get away from it.-Reese Witherspoon

Quote from Roxane Gay

I am not avoiding reality when I read fiction;I am strengthening my ability to cope with reality.-Roxane Gay

Quote from Zane Grey

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.-Zane Grey(1872-1939)

Quote from Zane Grey

I wrote for nearly six hours.When I stopped,the dark mood,as if by magic,had folded its cloak and gone away.-Zane Grey

Quote from Paul Collier

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men.-Paul Collier

Quote from Ada Calhoun

Dating is poetry.Marriage is a novel.There are times,maybe years,that are all exposition.-Ada Calhoun,WEDDING TOASTS I'LL NEVER GIVE.

Quote from Agnes Repplier

Cats,even robust,have scant liking for the boisterous society of children,and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it.Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.-Agnes Repplier

Czech singer dies of COVID -19

Czech singer Hana Horka died in January 2022 after catching COVID-19 intentionally,her son told the BBC.Hana Horka,57,was unvaccinated.

Quote from Johnny Galecki

It's that one thing that you're passionate about that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside.Passion is appealing and universal.-Johnny Galecki

Quote from Kenneth E.Boulding

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough,but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastophic.-Kenneth E.Boulding

Quote from Arthur Rimbaud

What if a piece of wood discovers that it is a violin?-Arthur Rimbaud

Quote from Hemmingway

Being against evil doesn't make you good.-Hemmingway

Quote from Rita Mae Brown

Life's too short to try to understand cold-blooded creatures.-Rita Mae Brown

Quote from Jess C.Scott

Killing animals to make a fashion statement= a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.-Jess C.Scott

Quote from Cory Doctorow

This is why I loved technology.If you used it right,it could give you power and privacy.-Cory Doctorow,LITTLE BROTHER.

Quote from Harry Shearer

If absolute power corrupts absolutely,does absolute powerlessness make you pure?-Harry Shearer

Quote on writing

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night,when every one has retired.-Zane Grey

Quote from Zane Grey

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.-Zane Grey

Quote on work

Work is my salvation.It changes my mood.-Zane Grey

Quote from Bryant McGill

In a sea of trouble your thoughts are your lifeboat.-Bryant McGill

Quote from Yann Martel

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.-Yann Martel

Quote on society

Society is based on discontent:people wanting more and more and more,being continually dissatisfied with their homes,their bodies,their decor,their clothes,everything.-Nick Harkaway

Quote on elephants

Elephants love reunions.They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild,boisterous joy.There's bellowing and trumpeting,ear flapping and rubbing.Trunks entwine.-Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Quote on resolutions

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them,but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.-Monica Johnson

Quote from Kenneth E.Boulding

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable,still using the forms of democratic government.-Kenneth E.Boulding(1910-1993)

Interesting song by Manhattan Transfer I like

Trickle Trickle-song by The Manhattan Transfer

A fabulous underrated disco song from 1979

Don't You Want My Love?(1979)-song by Debbie Jacobs

Another disco song I like

High On Your Love-song by Debbie Jacobs

Goat and sheep

A ''geep''is a cross between a goat and a sheep.

Disco song from 1979 that I love

Hot Hot(Give you all you got)(1979)-song by Debbie Jacobs

Disco song from Jackie Moore that I love

Helpless-song by Jackie Moore

Quote from Mason Cooley

Lechery is secretive,but must finally reveal itself to at least one.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Karen Marie Moning

I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats,I was in imminent danger of drowning.-Karen Marie Moning

Quote on pessimists

I like pessimists.They are always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.-Lisa Kleypas

Quote on family

Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.-J.K.Rowling

Quote from Reese Witherspoon

I get crazy in a bookstore.It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.-Reese Witherspoon(born 1976),actress.

Quote from Kenneth E.Boulding

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics.Unfortunately,it also brought mortis.-Kenneth E.Boulding,American economist.

Quote from Curtis Stone

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages.That's always a tourist trap.You want to eat where the locals eat.-Curtis Stone

Quote from Louise Erdrich

Sorrow eats time.Be patient.Time eats sorrow.-Louise Erdrich,La Rose.

Quote from science

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Song by Jefferson Starship I love

Miracles-song by Jefferson Starship

Quote from Nick Harkaway

The tree of nonsense is watered with error,and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.-Nick Harkway,THE GONE-AWAY WORLD,June 2008.

Quote from Nick Harkaway

I love you forever.I am sorry I cannot love you now.-Nick Harkaway

Song by Manhattan Transfer I love

Twilight Zone-song by Manhattan Transfer.

Beijing

Beijing is the first city to host both the summer Olympic games and the winter Olympic Games.

Quote from Charles Marion Russell

A pioneer destroys things and call it civilization.-Charles Marion Russell

Quote from Brownie McGhee

That's what I liked about hitchhiking.If a crowd wasn't big enough,I kepty walkin'.-Brownie McGhee

Quote from Christian Dior

Zest is the secret of all beauty.There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.-Christian Dior

Quote from Eva Hoffman

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers,we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex,sophisticated perceptions.-Eva Hoffman

Thelma Sutcliffe

Thelma Sutcliffe died in Omaha,Nebraska on January 17,2022 at the age of 115 years and 108 days.She was the oldest verified person in the U.S. at the time of her death,

                                  Sutcliffe had previously survived two bouts of breast cancer over the course of her life.

                                   Sutcliffe credited her long life to never having children,never smoking and 'never worrying about anything',she told AARP in May 2021.

                                   Prior to her passing,Sutcliffe's hearing and sight had significantly deteriorated;however,her mind was still 'very sharp' at the time of her death.

                               A remarkable woman.Truly sad to see her pass.

Interesting website on travel

www.smartertravel.com

Quote from Parmahansa Yogananda

You must methodize your life.God created routine.The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.-Parmahansa Yogananda

Quote on courage

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear;The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.-Meg Cabot

Quote from Harper Lee

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for.-Harper Lee,TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

Quote from Washington Irving

No man is so methodical as a complete idler,and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.-Washington Irving

Quote from Meg Cabot

You want a happy relationship?Don't ruin it by getting married.-Meg Cabot(born 1967).

Quote on ADHD

I hate that adhd is diagnosed mostly based on how inconvenient you are to the people around you instead of yknow-how difficult life is for you?-@pitxiedude

Quote from Meg Cabot

It is much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.-Meg Cabot(born 1967)

Rabbits

Rabbits are not scarfers;they don't scarf food down like dogs.Rabbits nibble;they nibble all day.They eat a decent amount of food over a long period.

Shooting oneself

Some people don't just shoot themselves in the foot;they blast both legs off.

Quote from Meg Cabot

Life's not easy for unicorns,you know.We're a dying breed.-Meg Cabot,Twitter post of Meg Cabot,January 30,2014.

Quote from Zane Grey

Love grows more tremendously full,swift,poignant,as the years multiply.-Zane Grey

Quote from Meg Cabot

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.-Meg Cabot(born 1967)

Quote on writing

Writing is a workout,just like going for a run!-Meg Cabot

Quote from James A.Garfield

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.-James A.Garfield

Quote on populism

Populism offers the headless heart;ideology offers the heartless head.-Paul Collier

Quote from Henry James

To kill a human being is,after all,the least injury you can do him.-Henry James

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is methodical and doeth her work well.Time is never to be hurried.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Kenneth Hildebrand

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes ;lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.-Kenneth Hildebrand

Quote from Ada Calhoun

All the couples therapy and communication seminars in the world won't save you if you aren't prepared to close your eyes and hug the mainmast through a storm.-Ada Calhoun

Quote from Kenneth Hildebrand

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.-Kenneth Hildebrand

Quote from Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Science depends on organized skepticism that is,on continual methodical doubting.Few of us doubt our own conclusions,so science embraces its skeptical approach by rewarding those who doubt someone else's.-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Quote on freedom

Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions.-Kenneth Hildebrand

Quote from Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal;it is a byproduct.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Great quote from Havelock Ellis

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.-Havelock Ellis

Quote from Randall Jarrrell

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical,but reality keeps breaking in.-Randall Jarrell

Quote from Cecil Purdy

Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration.-Cecil Purdy

Canadian missionary murdered in Belize

Brian Townsend,a Canadian missionary from Edmonton was murdered in Belize in January 2014.

                             His badly decomposed body was found just over the border in a Guatemala river and identified by police.Belize commanding officer Dinsdale Thompson added that the wounds sustained by Townsend showed that he was killed.

                                Townsend,64,had  been living and working in Belize for nearly a decade.

Quote from Meg Cabot

Whenever you feel like an outsider-for whatever reason-you spend a lot of time alone.-Meg Cabot