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Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Processed foods are the 'tobacco' of today." - Robert Lufkin

"Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions." - Tim Ferriss

"Please know that it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you." - Derek Sivers

"We are whatever we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Corporate Media really has the knives out for Robert Kennedy Jr. I'll add that I think in reality RFK Jr. is probably polling at much higher than 20%. I wish I put more money down when I had him at +$600.

- Niall Ferguson - American still leads the world, but its allies are uneasy. Longish read but worth it.

- Matt Taibbi on Kurt Vonnegut and in particular Harrison Bergeron. Vonnegut is a personal favorite of mine.

- NASA finally admits climate change due mostly to changes in Earth's rotation around the sun. To be kind maybe they just learned not to argue with stupid people much earlier than most. [EDIT: this article came out in Aug 2019]

 Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Kurt Vonnegut's letter to school children just a few months before his death.

- Elon Musk reveals "secret" Twitter labels still causing shadowbans on conservatives. Guessing Elon has a crack team going through the code line by line. 

- My personal favorite version of America the Beautiful

- Gabe Kaplan to retire as High Stakes Poker commentator. What a versatile guy. Standup comedian, TV star, expert poker player, and perhaps the best poker commentator ever. Also was a heck of a pick-up basketball player when younger.

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"When science becomes big, it stops being science." - Peter Thiel

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." - Kurt Vonnegut

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you're not seeking approval, they have no power." - Shane Parrish

"The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest." - Unknown

"Keep your attention focused entirely on what is your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours." - Epictetus

"We are here on Earth to fart around." - Kurt Vonnegut

I've seen this letter before but reading anew gave me such joy. God Bless You Mr. Rosewater Vonnegut.

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"Adam and Eve saw that they were naked, and they became afraid. Unconscious denial of their animal nature set in very quickly... They began to disassociate from their body. They now saw themselves as having a body, rather than just being it." - Eckhart Tolle

"You can reduce your stress by not having a strong opinion about everything." - Vala Afshar

"If tobacco companies get in trouble for selling products that give people cancer, then universities should get in trouble for selling student debt to students with worthless degrees." - Naval Ravikant

"Another flaw in human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." - Kurt Vonnegut

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"There's only one rule that I know of babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Kurt Vonnegut

"The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is." - Eckhart Tolle

"It turned out that the first big lesson we learned was that there was much, much more business out there in small-town America than anybody, including me, had ever dreamed of." - Sam Walton

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon." - Napoleon

July is American Beer Month. Here are some beer related quotes I hope may resonate with you. 

"Beer is proof God loves us." - Benjamin Franklin

"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer." - Dave Barry

"God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as clearly as he loves vegetation." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise." - Kurt Vonnegut

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." - Henny Youngman

"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." - Dave Barry

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"When everything is going terribly, and I have no reason to be confident, I just decide to be." - Kurt Vonnegut

"I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority." - Ronald Reagan

"Opulence - I has it." - Hunter Biden

"We must love them both, those whose opinion we share and those whose opinions we reject." - Thomas Aquinas