玩偶姐姐

No one cares and nothing matters

"The purpose of life is to discover your gift.听 The work of life is to develop it.听 The meaning of life is to give your gift away."

听 -- David Viscott, L.A.'s tough-love radio psychotherapist

Try to be brave, but when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout....

If you can keep your head when all about you
听 听 Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
听 听But make allowance for their doubting too....

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
听 听If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
听 听And treat those two impostors just the same....

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it
听 听And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!

听 -- Rudyard Kipling, from the poem 'If -- '
听 听 听 (written c. 1895)

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you
more than he loves himself.

听 听 听 听-- Josh Billings, 19th century humor writer and lecturer

A photo of Billings with fellow humorists Mark Twain and
Petroleum V. Nasby can be seen near the top of Billings's
Wikipedia page.听 All three names are pseudonyms.

鈥淭here is always some madness in love
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 But there is also always some reason in madness.鈥�
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(15 October 1844, R枚cken, Saxony, Prussia
鈥� 25 August 1900, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach,Germany)

Jack Benny famously guarded his money, an impression he liked to portray for comic effect on his radio and television programs.

Approached by an armed robber, Benny stood stoically.

"Well, which is it, buddy," asked the robber, "your money or your life?"

Benny:听 "Hold on a minute.听 I'm thinking!"

I have often had different parts of the poem "Desiderata" come to my mind, when needed.

"Be yourself"
"Especially, do not feign affection
Neither be cynical about Love
For in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
It is as perrenial as the grass",

The entire poem is worth memorizing, I believe.

Goodman, Jack

In 1930, Babe Ruth signed with the New York Yankees again, this time for $80,000 for a year.

The slugger was asked if he thought he deserved more money than President Herbert Hoover.

"Why not!" said the Sultan of Swat.听 "I had a better year than him."

Give my your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
听 yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

听 -- Emma Lazarus in a sonnet that became famous
听 听 听 听 听inscribed onto a bronze plaque inside the pedestal
听 听 听 听 听of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

听 -- Hockey great Wayne Gretzky

Can't anybody here play this game?
听
听 -- Manager Casey Stengel of the 1962 New York Mets

Stengel's quote showcased the ineptitude of the
less-than-amazin' Mets in their inaugural year .. and
became the title of a book by journalist Jimmy Breslin
chronicling the '62 Mets' 40-120 season.

Be who you are and say what you will because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.听 听 听 听 Dr. Seuss

This one is very topical (it is, of course, the famous quotation from Tolstoy that starts Anna Karenina):

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Indeed, he's right: many families are very unhappy... but rarely do they chop their kids up into little pieces! I may have to re-assess and decide my dad was not so bad after all. :-)



"An Iranian couple have been arrested for drugging, murdering and dismembering their film-maker son, Babak Khorramdin, 47, and also confessed to killing their daughter and son-in-law in the same way years earlier."

鈥淟aws are like cobwebs,
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听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听but let wasps and hornets break through.鈥�

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Profession: Writer
Nationality: Irish
Born: November 30, 1667
Died: October 19, 1745

Covid quote....

This pandemic has magnified every existing inequality in our society -- like systemic racism, gender inequality and poverty.

听 -- Melinda Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
听 听 听September 2020

Covid quote....

Be safe, be smart, be kind.

听 -- Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
听 听 听 听 听 Director General of the World Health Organization,
听 听 听 听 听 in the first few months of the pandemic

The actor Andr茅 De Shields, at age 73, sharing the three cardinal rules of his "sustainability and longevity"...

One, surround yourself with people whose eyes light up when they see you coming....
Two, slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be.
And three, the top of one mountain is the bottom of the next.
So keep climbing.

听 -- De Shields was dropping "a truth bomb" on his audience as he accepted a Tony award in 2019.听 The mini-lecture went viral, boosting the longtime performer's fame to greater heights than he had achieved over the decades for his stage work in Hadestown, Ain't Misbehavin and The Wiz.听 (Margaret Sullivan in the Sunday New York Times)

It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.听 The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... who at the best knows the triumph of high achievement (and) who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

听 听 -- Theodore Roosevelt (U.S. president 1901-09).听 TR was delivering a wildly successful speech to thousands in an audience gathered at the Sorbonne in Paris the year after his presidency concluded.

Creativity is all about connecting things听 - Steve Jobs

You'll never get rich by diggin' a ditch,
You're in the army now!

听 -- Old Army saying.
听 听 听 In 1941, Fred Astaire revived his flagging career and
听 听 听 Rita Hayworth became a star in the movie
听 听 听 You're In the Army Now.听 A magazine photo of the
听 听 听 "Love Goddess" kneeling on a bed became a supercharged
听 听 听 pinup for thousands of G-I's during World War II.

You're always one decision away from a totally different life - Mark Batterson.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving a new one - Dolly Parton.

To avoid criticism: say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

zik79 wrote:

Creativity is all about connecting things听 - Steve Jobs

"Creativity means not copying"

听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Jacques Maximin
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 (March 3, 1948 - Rang-du-Flies, France)
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 - French Chef -

Quotes from Vince Lombardi...

Practice does not make perfect.听 Only perfect practice makes perfect.

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

听 -- Lombardi was a New Yorker from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, who coached
听 听 听for the NFL's New York Giants .. and attained tremendous fame by leading
听 听 听the Green Bay Packers to victories in the Super Bowl even before
听 听 听it was called the Super Bowl.

Cynic wrote:

Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

kittycat1 wrote:

zik79 wrote:

Creativity is all about connecting things听 - Steve Jobs

"Creativity means not copying"

听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听Jacques Maximin
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 (March 3, 1948 - Rang-du-Flies, France)
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 - French Chef -

" Good Artist copy, Great Artist steal "
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听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 (25 October 1881 Malaga, Spain 鈥� 8 April 1973 Mougins, France)
听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer

"Dont try to fix whats not broken" . Gary busey in the movie warrior

A series now running on Netflix, Kim's Convenience, pokes fun
at the Korean grocer Mr. Kim.

In the series premier, Kim (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) cluelessly deals
with his Toronto neighborhood customers during a gay pride week.

He demurs when approached in his store by two gay pride promoters
who want to put up a sign in the store announcing a gay pride parade...

"I have no problem with the gay, but I have problem with the parade.
Traffic and garbage and noise.

"If you is the gay, why can't you be quiet, respectful gay?
Like Anderson Cooper, no?, and Neil Patrick Harris, you know.
They is all the gay but they don't yelling to me they's the gay....

"Some people don't like the Korean.听 But we don't make a big parade
yelling at the people 'We's the Korean, We's the Korean!'"

If you want to make a new influenza vaccine using traditional methods, you have to isolate the virus, learn how to grow it, learn how to inactivate it, and purify it.听 That takes months.听 With RNA, you only need the sequence.

听 -- Drew Weissman, an infectious disease expert at Penn Medicine, quoted by CNN in an article about how medical advancements from combating covid are showing that mRNA vaccines research may lead to victories over cancers and many other diseases.

At :听 The article "Now proven against coronavirus, mRNA can do so much more"

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything.

I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

听 -- John Wooden (1910-2010), famed UCLA men's basketball coach
听 听 听 听 听 听 听and motivational speaker.

Wooden's Bruins won ten NCAA championships in 12 years,
including an unprecedented seven titles in a row.

Wooden was the first person ever inducted into basketball's
Hall of Fame as both a player (for the Purdue Boilermakers,
inducted 1960) and as a coach (for UCLA, inducted 1973).

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.鈥擫es Brown

In what country is the following just posted about its top-rated 24/7 cable news network?

Instead of devoting time to the day's top news stories, (CNews) hosts tend to prefer dissecting microscandals that are more or less indecipherable to audiences outside the country, with chyrons capturing guests' provocations seconds after they are uttered.听 As on Fox News, the themes covered often reflect conservatives' anxieties about a changing nation:听 the size of the foreign-born population, the supposed excesses of political correctness, the state of Islam and a wounded sense of national pride.

And as with Fox News, CNews often sets the country's agenda.听 Many of the news items obsessively covered by the channel have evolved into full-blown national debates.听 Among them are the bullying of a teenager on social media after she called Islam a "religion of hate" on Instagram; a push from the Green Party mayor of Lyon to serve meat-free meals at school cafeterias... and the acceptance by the president's party, En Marche, of a candidate who wears the Islamic veil....

听 -- An opinion 'guest essay' by the France-based journalist Cole Stangler in The New York Times, titled France Is Becoming More Like America.听 It's Terrible.

Any platform, whether it's FaceBook, Twitter, any other platform that is disseminating information to millions of Americans has a responsibility to crack down on disinformation, to crack down on false information...

We learned a lot from ... the former president over the last couple of years about how he uses these platforms.听 It seems pretty unlikely that the zebra's gonna change its stripes over the next couple of years.

听 -- Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, responding to FaceBook's decision to extend its ban against 'the former guy' until 2023.

Quotes from John Wayne...

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.听 Comes into us at midnight very clean.... It hopes we learned something from yesterday.


Life dates for John Wayne, born Marion Robert Morrison... 1907-1979.

'Do good to people on your way up as you may meet them again on your way down'

Over 400 years ago William Shakespeare used the words:

"What is past Its prologue".

The world is full of good people. If you cant find one. Be one.

We think too much and feel too little.

听 -- Charlie Chaplin

If you practice kindness, patience and generosity all day, and to everybody, you will recognize that you are already in heaven.

听 -- Jack Kerouac, novelist, in a letter to his first wife
听 听 听 听 听and lifelong friend, Edie Parker.