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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. -- John Kenneth Galbraith ---------------------------------------------- An organization called SCROOGE was formed in 1979 in Charlottesville, Virginia. The acronym stands for the "Society to Curtail Ridiculous, Outrageous and Ostentatious Gift Exchanges."
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French toast isn't French. It comes from a Roman cookbook, dating back to 1000 or 2000 B.C., and titled "Apicius on Cooking."
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
-- Christopher Morley
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The Earth moves in its 585-million-mile orbit around the Sun ( Read more... ) -
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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At least 100,000 different chemical reactions occur in the normal
human brain every second.
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark TwainPres. Franklin D. Roosevelt served hot dogs and beer to King George VI in 1939. Not to be outdone, Queen Elizabeth II served hot dogs at a royal banquet for the American Bar Association. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan also ( Read more... ) -
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
-- Arthur SchopenhauerThe world's first iron bridge, built at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England in 1782, was the product of three generations of Darbys. Abraham Darby I developed the use of coke; his son ( Read more... ) -
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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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A racehorse averages a weight loss of between 15 and 25 pounds during a race.
RANDOM STAR WARS SILLY.... ( STOLEN OF MISS JADE)
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"
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Anthropologists believe that people have been making and wearing shoes for more than 10,000 years. The Egyptians wore sandals woven from papyrus leaves.
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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
-- Clive James
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In 1995, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration employee bought six plastic owls at Wal-Mart to protect the space shuttle from woodpeckers.
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