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preferred libation

Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner' likes Scotch and Soda.

"the product of a more forgiving environment"

Here.

the greatest competitive advantage?

"Happiness."
- Shawn Achor

about the ride

"The joy we feel growing towards our potential."
- Ancient Greeks on happiness 

on appeasement

"When will they simply learn that you cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth?"
- Sir Winston Churchill

on gold medals

"If you're not enough without it, you're not enough with it."
- Cool Runnings

"orchid kids"

"We can't change our genes, but we can change the environment."
- UC Berkeley

Monoamine oxidase A

"5% of men are responsible for 60% of all violent crime."
- Dunedin Longitudinal Study

a night out with Caligula

"Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we shall die."
- Roman Axiom

landfill

"40% of the food produced is wasted."
- Chef Dan Barber, Blue Hill

comedy as therapy

“You stop playing when you get older – everything becomes serious business – but (improv) releases a lot of pressure ... It opened me up to being a better version of myself.” Full article here.

move!

"The true course in conducting military operations, is to make no movement until the preparations are complete."
- General George McClellan, who was ousted by Lincoln for inaction and replaced by alcoholic, last in his West Point class Ulysses S. Grant who won the Civil War

"Quick to hurt."

"Always looking to be offended."
- The aggrieved Newfoundland axiom

Rules for Happiness

“Something to do, someone to love, something for which to hope.”

- Immanuel Kant

mash-up

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

on advertising

"You don't persuade the people through the intellect; you persuade them through passions ... sitting by yourself and getting an idea is more important than all the technology in the world."
- Bill Bernbach

"Who do you know ...

... even when they're right in front of you?"
- Jim Carrey

found art

Robert Rauschenberg anticipated the modern art movement.

spiritual street philosophy

"5% know the truth; 10% control it; 85% are deaf, dumb and blind."
- Talib Kweli

on underestimation

"Don't mistake my kindness for weakness."

suffragist

"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

in light of current events

"Not all men are idiots and not all women are pure and virtuous," according to this growing, controversial outfit of by-choice single men, whose philosophy originated in Japan where like the West birth rates continue to plummet:

https://www.mgtow.com/about/

A credible resource needs to verify that "80% of all men never had kids. We are the product of the 20% with the financial means and physical attributes."

skepticism

"When I see perfect beauty, I always wonder what is this hiding?"
- A persistent concern

founding dictum

"Better Together."

short, stocky, slow-witted, bald man

George Costanza

                   ... it’s not a lie if you believe it.

on the fallacy of algorithms

Here.

we make our future

John Connor:

                The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.

on risk

(Image of a sky aircraft carrier)

"The day you stop making mistakes is the day you're not on the frontier."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

true and false

Ronald Spiers:

You wanna know if they're true or not. The stories about me? Did you ever notice with stories like that, everyone says they heard it from someone who was there. Then when you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. It's nothing new really. I bet if you went back two thousand years, you'd hear a couple centurions standing around yakking about how Tercius lopped off the heads of some Carthaginian prisoners.

Carwood Lipton:

Well, maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tercius deny it.

Ronald Spiers:

Maybe that's because Tercius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest sonofabitch in the whole Roman Legion.

the fortune of misfortune

"I've made a thousand mistakes, but I wouldn't change anything as they brought me to this place."
- Willie Nelson

rip it out

work while you still have the light

“Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.” 

- Marcel Proust

on reality

"I am considerably sobered by what goes down in history."
- Jeremiah Tower

who the hell is Jim Carrey?

buy, donate, caffeinate

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paraphrase

"Renoir produced a lot of garbage too."

- Artistic process

french polish

Alcohol takes the finish off furniture and people.

sensitivity is overrated

"Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right."
- Ricky Gervais

genius

"I.Q. tests are like golf where the lowest score is best."

maturation

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."

- 1 Corinthians 13:11

one finger salute

"The reason that our sport isn't popular in America is that fans can't afford a hotdog or bathroom break as results can change instantly, determitavely given low scores."
- Billionaire Bernie Ecclestone, former Formula 1 chief, who insists that his successor needs to be a very good used car salesman.

weasle ferret face

Major Frank Burns:

                                "I'm going to sue all of you!"

Hawkeye:

                               "For Definition of Character? " (later) "I have no doubt he remembers it that way."

abracadabra

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
- Joan Didion

widely applicable

"He lied so much he don't even know the truth anymore."
- Jeff Ross

definition

"Farce: It's funny to everyone else but you."
- John Cleese

"You think you know me."

Rembrandt, Self Portrait

The significance of the freehand perfect circle was in answer to critics who dismissed him for not having the skill of classical artists. 

Nut Jobs

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels. The trouble makers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them … because they change things, they push the human race forward.

While some may see them as “the crazy ones”, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world – are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

no nerves

"I think about nothing. I've done all the training, so there's nothing left to do but execute."
- Michael Phelps on the starting block

discord

"War? War is an organized bore."
- Justice Holmes

poached eggs

Where you might find David Chilton, author of The Wealthy Barber:

gut

“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”
- Maya Angelou

"courage gives you optimism"

"It is exhilarating to be shot at without result."
- Winston Churchill

everything?

"You are responsible for everything that happens to you."
- Scientology