http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/Quotes and sayings that should arouse intellectual curiosity. Quips that underlie all our lives and daily dealings. A quote, or saying, may be mine or any other author whose expression impresses. When it is mine, I will clearly state. If I can identify the author who penned what I say, I will give him, or her, credit. On occasions, when no one is identified, the assumption should be made that such quote is NOT mine.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/582917I like them all, but especially the first. And Frost is one of my favourite poets. Read his, The Road Less Traveled. It is a masterpiece. An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. - Nicholas Chamfort...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/582025There is a number of Bloggers on this board who hail from, or are descendants of, India. Let me take this opportunity to say that I hope that you did not suffer the personal loss of friends or family in the despicable actions of those at Mumbai. If you did, you have my condolence. I have many...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/581576As shown on Google's Home Page Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. - Robertson Davies Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. - George Bernard Shaw...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/581459A friend just emailed me this admonition. It should be good for all who read. "Remember....live every day to the fullest. Each minute is a blessing from God. And never forget....the people who make a difference in our lives are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/579628Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. - Frank Zappa It is better for civilization to be going down the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/579300We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. - John Dewey Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. - Jules Renard Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams Stay...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/578587The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - George Bernard Shaw Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/578378I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. - Jack Handey An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton The best...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/577303On Wednesday next, when we awake, the world will have changed. What happens thereafter will be watched intensely by every other country in the world. One way or the other, our expectations will change. And the world will go on. May I suggest that no matter what the outcome - certainly some of us...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/EX_TURPI1596/575859We, the creatures on this earth have a symbiotic relationship. Yes, none of us can survive without the other. The plants provide us food and clean the air so we may breathe and create. The other animals provide us pleasure, transportation, and food. We maintain the earth so they may not be...