Tallest mountain under the ocean

The peak of Mauna Kea is 13,803 feet (4,207 m) above mean sea level but 33,476 feet (10,203 m) above its base on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It is the world's tallest mountain by this measure, taller than Mount Everest 29,029 feet (8,848 m) which is the highest mountain above sea level.

You're Fucked

won't fill the hole

"Thank God I didn't fuck over anyone for this."

- A 27 year old Matt Damon on winning the "Good Will Hunting" Oscar

revert to basic selves

"Everyone's got a plan until they're punched in the face."
- Axiom

ceaseless motion

"Marine limestone."
- Stephen Jay Gould on Mount Everest where the bottom became the top.

the clock has run out

America Ferrera speaks about the legal fund established to protect both women and men against sexual harassment, here.

chief strength

"We can live in the Arctic as well as the Amazon - we adapt."
- Chris Hayes

on objectivism

"Reality is a cloud of possibility, but people want to make a point."
- The Undoing Project

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"

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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