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Graveyards are full of indispensable people !

Don’t be pushed by your problems.
Be led by your dreams.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

When John Lennon wrote, "All You Need Is Love", he was a millionaire pop star by his mid-twenties... and taking a lot of recreational drugs.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

“The most terrifying words in the English language are:
I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

~ Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004)

Life is like a camera.
Just focus on what’s important
Capture the good times
Develop from the negative
and if things don’t turn out
just take another shot.

“Never miss an opportunity to make others happy
even if you have to leave them alone to do it.”

Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

There are only three things in life that matter, 1 Time, 2 How you spend it and 3 The people you spend it with.

To make perfect seafood needs thyme.


Snap Crackle & Pop :
When I was young it was the sound my breakfast cereal made
Now it's the noise I make getting up for breakfast.

Quote of the Day

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed,lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero , 55 BC

So, evidently we've learned nothing in the past 2,067 years.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. ~Robert Brault

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

A few today:

The Toltecs, Seventh-century native Mexicans, went into battle with wooden swords so as not to kill their enemies.


Peter the Great had the head of his wife's lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed


It costs more to send someone to reform school than it does to send them to Eton.


The great Russian leader, Lenin died 21 January 1924, suffering from a degenerative brain disorder. At the time of his death his brain was a quarter of its normal size.


During the seventeen century , the Sultan of Turkey ordered his entire harem of women drowned, and replace with a new one.


South American gauchos were known to put raw steak under their saddles before starting a day's riding, in order to tenderize the meat.


Fourteen million people were killed in World War I, twenty million died in a flu epidemic in the years that followed


During the Medieval Crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the
Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the bones with them.