I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now only that place where the books are kept. - John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel...
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. - Marilyn French Fear is a mysterious...
"You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile." - Brian Tracy, business writer In...
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. - Margaret Halsey, novelist (1910-1997) A refusal to be defeated does not...
[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. - Thomas Dekker No one knows for certain why we need sleep. Obviously we need to rest our...
When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in...
The power to command frequently causes failure to think. - Barbara Tuchman, author and historian (1912-1989) While most of us could think of many examples of...
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Is it safe to be unpopular in western society today? ...
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin There is no way to couch this in cutesy, comfy language. The way you see the world around...
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961) Hemingway, who took his own...
One of the writer/reader services to which I post our daily Quote du Jour is called Scribd. Scribd was in beta for a long time, but has recently gone public,...
CONGRATULATIONS! You have worked so hard to get the word out -- and now it seems that it is working. Hope that all of this attention boosts sales of TIA and...
... it is working. Hope that all of this attention boosts sales of TIA and allows you to continue. Thank you, Marveen. I have just received an invitation from...
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with...
This is very good news, it keeps TIA right up there where a lot of people will get interested in it. Good luck Laurie ... traffic (one million page hits per...
One of my Quotes du Jour attracted a great deal of attention over the past two days. (about 127,000 reads within the first 46 hours on one site alone) That's...
This is a follow-up to my Quote du Jour of March 10, which came to be titled "Why Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy." It clarifies and enhances the...
If you are going to be interviewed by a US radio station (actually the west coast network of CBS radio), that bills itself as the "largest West Coast based...
... was that I was not speaking with an interviewer who was mentally stable. I intended to say that the interviewer was NOT mentally stable. Cheers Bill...
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag, author and critic (1933-2004) (or, what I see is not what you painted) This applies as...
Hi Bill, From your comments and the questions asked, I can only presume that the 'interviewer' had no interest in Canada, Canadians, or in your Book. What a...
... the 'interviewer' had no interest in Canada, Canadians, or in your Book. Adam didn't have anything against Canadians, Peter. I think he knew nothing about...
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. - Franklin D. Roosevelt,...
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. - Norm Papernick A sobering thought for...
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. - Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) I find the term...
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. - George Bernard Shaw Shaw was a negative person much of the time and his...
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. - Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963) It's an odd characteristic of human nature that we tend to accept...
The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. - Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward...
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. - Neil Armstrong There comes...
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