kaleidoscopic imagination

"An inventor needs an enemy."
- Thomas Edison on Alexander Graham Bell; the importance of competition.

not that low a bar

"My barometer of success is affording orange juice with pulp in it."
- John Oliver

synonym infinity

"There are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe."
- Diego Rasskin-Gutman

fake news

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
- George Orwell

actor on Buddhism

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preferred libation

Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner' likes Scotch and Soda.

"the product of a more forgiving environment"

Here.

the greatest competitive advantage?

"Happiness."
- Shawn Achor

about the ride

"The joy we feel growing towards our potential."
- Ancient Greeks on happiness 

on appeasement

"When will they simply learn that you cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth?"
- Sir Winston Churchill

on gold medals

"If you're not enough without it, you're not enough with it."
- Cool Runnings

"orchid kids"

"We can't change our genes, but we can change the environment."
- UC Berkeley

Monoamine oxidase A

"5% of men are responsible for 60% of all violent crime."
- Dunedin Longitudinal Study

a night out with Caligula

"Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we shall die."
- Roman Axiom

landfill

"40% of the food produced is wasted."
- Chef Dan Barber, Blue Hill

comedy as therapy

“You stop playing when you get older – everything becomes serious business – but (improv) releases a lot of pressure ... It opened me up to being a better version of myself.” Full article here.

move!

"The true course in conducting military operations, is to make no movement until the preparations are complete."
- General George McClellan, who was ousted by Lincoln for inaction and replaced by alcoholic, last in his West Point class Ulysses S. Grant who won the Civil War

"Quick to hurt."

"Always looking to be offended."
- The aggrieved Newfoundland axiom

Rules for Happiness

“Something to do, someone to love, something for which to hope.”

- Immanuel Kant

mash-up

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

on advertising

"You don't persuade the people through the intellect; you persuade them through passions ... sitting by yourself and getting an idea is more important than all the technology in the world."
- Bill Bernbach

"Who do you know ...

... even when they're right in front of you?"
- Jim Carrey

found art

Robert Rauschenberg anticipated the modern art movement.

spiritual street philosophy

"5% know the truth; 10% control it; 85% are deaf, dumb and blind."
- Talib Kweli

on underestimation

"Don't mistake my kindness for weakness."

suffragist

"The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

in light of current events

"Not all men are idiots and not all women are pure and virtuous," according to this growing, controversial outfit of by-choice single men, whose philosophy originated in Japan where like the West birth rates continue to plummet:

https://www.mgtow.com/about/

A credible resource needs to verify that "80% of all men never had kids. We are the product of the 20% with the financial means and physical attributes."

skepticism

"When I see perfect beauty, I always wonder what is this hiding?"
- A persistent concern

founding dictum

"Better Together."

short, stocky, slow-witted, bald man

George Costanza

                   ... it’s not a lie if you believe it.