Quotes #25: Jalonick, Barrett, Twain, Renoir, Bowman, Whyte, Shaw, Savage, Peres, Deal
Iceland's combination of strong social policies and extensive use of renewable energy demonstrates that living within our environmental means doesn't mean sacrificing human well-being. --New Economics Foundation
The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period congressional investigators say. --Mary Clare Jalonick
There's no real evidence that children benefit from playing with their parents, according to Utah State anthropologist David Lancy. --Jennifer Barrett
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. --Mark Twain
My own form of madness has been to spend my whole life putting color on canvas. --Pierre Auguste Renoir
Of all the forms of wanton self-destruction, there is none more pathetic than that in which the human individual demands that in the vital relationships of life he be treated not as an individual but as a member of some organization. --A.A. Bowman
It is the price of progress that there can never be consensus. All creative advances are essentially a departure from agreed-upon ways of looking at things, and to over-emphasize the agreed upon is to further legitimatize the hostility to that creativity upon which we all ultimately depend. --William H. Whyte, Jr.
The problem with communication is the illusion it has been accomplished. --George Bernard Shaw
Most of the anger, frustration, misery, and despair in this world come from people clinging to past hurts and problems. The more you turn them over in your mind, the worse you’ll feel and the bigger they’ll look. Don’t try to fight misery. Let go and move on. Do that and you’ve removed just about all its power to hurt you. --Adrian Savage
All those in disagreement with me, signify by saying "So long, gainful employment." --Buddy Hickerson in the Quigmans
The study, which followed a large group for more than three decades, found that a person's chances of becoming obese increase dramatically after a close friend or relative fattens up. The same happens when someone close slims down. --Judy Peres
We are all animals and the price we pay for not being a rock or a beach is our mortality. --Jack D. Deal
