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“It was a disease ridden, starvation plagued, alcoholic age, and Christians like Arthur Guinness—as well as monks and even evangelical churches—brewed beer to offer a healthier alternative to the poisonous waters and liquors of the times.”
“None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.”
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
“[T]he state fair is … . like junk food Christmas.”
sac-eats in Your State Fair Dining Guide-Part 1
“Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.”
“The difference between rising at five and seven o’clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to ten additional years to a man’s life.”
“Yunece 61 serves Southern style barbecue with a Korean flair.”
“Irregardless is not a word. Use regardless or irrespective.”
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“[T]he best hamburger out there … is the next one that you eat that will satisfy both your soul and your hunger.”
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“O germ! O fount! O word of love!
O thought at random cast!
Ye were but little at the first,
But mighty at the last.”
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“There is nothing that requires so strict an economy as our benevolence. We should husband our means as the agriculturalist his fertilizer, which if he spread over too large a superficies produces no crop, if over too small a surface, exuberates in rankness and in weeds.”
“America is a lot bigger than I thought. It takes longer to get from one place to another and people are different in different parts of the country. Some places are almost like their own isolated countries, and I’ve met people who I never ever would have met and been exposed to ideas that I wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise.”
“[C]hildren are a blessing, even when they’re noisy and unruly and … some day they will grow up to pay for your social security and medicare and possibly defend our homeland, and, even better, display God’s glory in whatever vocation God calls them to.”
“Everything has been said, but not everything has been said superbly, and what has been said superbly has to be said again and again.”
Danny Meyer Thinks About Italian Food and Neighborhood Restaurants : The Feedbag
This is about Italian restaurants but it could apply to many things. via @Atlantic_Food
This is about Italian restaurants but it could apply to many things. via @Atlantic_Food
“According to her calculation, it takes 7 to 10 steps to check a voice mail message versus zero to 3 for an e-mail. “If you left a message, I have to dial in, dial in my code,” Ms. Cheong said. “Then I mess up and redial. Then once I hear the message, I need the phone number. I try to write it down, and then I have to rewind the message to hear it again,” she added, feigning exhaustion.”
For Some, Voice Mail Is Losing Its Allure - NYTimes.com
This is a great description of why I hate voicemail. It’s nice the NYT is finally catching up. Also why I love YouMail and Google Voice!
This is a great description of why I hate voicemail. It’s nice the NYT is finally catching up. Also why I love YouMail and Google Voice!
