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If we don't get enough sun, we'll sink into the deepest depths of despair, but if we get too much of it, our skin will dry and crinkle like crepe paper. We need sunlight for vitamin D, and to help regulate our sleep cycles, but it inspires people to go stand up paddle boarding, and then to tell you again and again about how you really have to try stand up paddle boarding.

--Madeleine Aggeler

NYT

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CPR can sometimes save lives, but it also has a dark side.

--Clay Dalton

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One of the lessons is that everywhere, all at once, all the time, we're all having a different experience, even when we share the same objective reality.

--Anil Seth

Following expensive art quote of the moment

There's a connection to someone who is now incarcerated. Something unusual is going on.

--Leila Amineddoleh

Backpack companion quote of the moment

Johnson's disappearance drew speculation on social media as the divorced mother of two was believed to have boarded a bus with only a bunny cage and a backpack.

--Kaitlyn Snook

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Darkness gathers around the light.

--Bono

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The names we gave each other were not merely to make each other laugh; but also to illuminate something of who were... Beyond those names given to us by our families at birth before our personalities were known. The names were supposed to describe the shape of your spirit as well as your physical characteristics.

--Bono

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U2's music was never really rock and roll, under its contemporary skin, it's opera.

--Bono 

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Prayers aren't always answered in the way you want.

--Bono 

Pick your enemies headline of the moment

Cheese Croutons, Bulgogi Burgers and Crispy Rice

--NYT

Funniest lede of the moment

I'm not exactly sure how the YouTube algorithm finds videos for me to watch, but now that I've stumbled into videos about people searching for gold, I can't stop.

--Rhett Allain

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I'm so use to being sarcastic in letters that everything I write sounds that way.

--HS Thompson

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Except on rare occasions, I cannot enjoy a date with a stupid girl.

--Hunter Thompson

Conversing headlines of the moment

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I am all the book remembers of itself.

--Mary Ruefle

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First your life is erased, then you are erased.

--Mary Rufle

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Not all ultra-processed foods are bad.

--Dr. Fang Fang Zhang

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Police even considered throwing pig carcasses with running shoes on their trotters into the sea to determine how shark behaviour or ocean currents could have played a role, the inquest heard.

--Tom Housden

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All sentimental people are betrayed, so many times.

--Earnest Hemingway 

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Everything is much simpler in the hospital; including the jokes.

--Earnest Hemingway 

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War in the mountains is the most beautiful of all war.

--Earnest Hemingway 

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I am the space that is big enough for all of this.

--Maureen Gallagher

Datum of the moment

Brazil is the world's largest exporter of chicken meat.

--BBC

Datum of the moment

About 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the United States each year, with 10 to 15 deaths.

--US FDA

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"An old man is a nasty thing."

--Character in an Earnest Hemingway short story

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Why, and for what purpose, is there all this horror?

-- Ivan Iyich

(Leo Tolstoy)

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I want people to understand that adolescence is not a disease, that adolescence is an amazing time of development.

-- Beatriz Luna

Article of the moment

https://soranews24.com/2023/05/20/our-lonely-reporter-goes-searching-for-japans-search-for-a-spouse-vending-machine/ 

Quote of the present...

... That sounds like it was from science fiction, 35 years ago...

"The Ukrainian president arrived in Hiroshima on a French government plane, after a stopover in Saudi Arabia."

--Tessa Wong

Hereditary quote of the moment

Something that's alive today can't be the ancestor of something alive today.

--Darrin Schultz

Headline of the moment

Pygmy hippo attacks, kills sitatunga at John Ball Zoo

--hollandsentinal.com

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Mutation Protected Man From Alzheimer's Disease, Hinting at Treatment

--NYT

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In the light of death, trivialities fall away.

--Mark Muesse 

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We're all champs when we're drunk.

--Hunter Thompson

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You will not be punished for for anger...

... You will be punished by your anger.

--Siddhartha Gautama

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We should give as we would receive. Cheerfully, quickly and without hesitations. There is no grace in the gift that sticks to the fingers.

--Seneca

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It's rather embarrassing to have given one's life to pondering the human predicament, and to find that, in the end, one has little more to say than, 'try to be a little kinder.'

--Aldous Huxley

Quotes of the moment

Hatred is a manifestation of our false self. It is not what we truly are.

Hatred is sure to cause is to suffer and is itself a manifestation of suffering.

--Mark Muesse 

Statistic of the moment

One in three stroke victims never calls 911.

--CDC

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Liz¹ is not a natural born leader; she is more of a zealot than a showman.

--William Evans

¹Elizabeth Holmes

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The story became this story that was totally snowballed away from what we were actually talking about.

--Elizabeth Holmes

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In person, Ms. Holmes is engaging, but she is also somewhat socially stunted. It's as if Rip Van Winkle fell asleep in his early 20s in a start-up and woke up a 32-year-old at Burning Man.

--Amy Chozick

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We walk past a family of caged orangutans and talk about how Ms. Holmes is preparing to go to prison for one of the most notorious cases of corporate fraud in recent history.

--Amy Chozick

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I think the 'associated' algorithm needs work...

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Walker Art Center

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You got somewhere by building that better reality.

--Michelle Obama 

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America is not a simple place.

--Michelle Obama

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In my life, I'd heard plenty of empty words coming from important people.

--Michelle Obama

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Happiness is the one thing we seek for itself and not as a means to something else.

--Aristotle

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I think that deeper human values and personal friends are the most important things in life.

--Dalai Lama 

Koan of the moment

Emptiness means that all things are interconnected.

Partial quote of the moment

...Accept a world in which some things are uncertain and attachment to security is an obstacle to well-being.

--Mark Muesse 

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Much of what we profess to know it's actually belief, opinion, conjecture and BS.

--Mark Muesse

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I have opinions of my own -strong opinions- but I don't always agree with them.

--George Bush

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Sometimes, you just need a slice of pizza, a cold can of Diet Coke or some milk and cookies, and that's OK, too.

--Julie Kendrick

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On any given day, hundreds of people live out of sight in a network of tunnels that run below the shining lights of Las Vegas.

--Alexis Fernandez

Datum of the moment

Presently, about 20% of the world's energy expenditure goes into refrigeration.

--SciShow

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Anytime's a good time to walk mindfully.

--Mark Muesse 

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Walking meditation has no destination but awareness.

--Mark Muesse 

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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

-- Frederick Nietzsche

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Unwholesome thoughts, which we can also call 'unskillful thoughts,' are connected to selfish desire, hatred or delusion.

--Mark Muesse

As your optimism rusts quote of the moment

Like other aspects of our physical and mental health, the brain becomes less responsive as we age. 

--Jillian Wilson

Data of the moment

The debt ceiling has been raised, extended or revised 78 times since 1960.

--BBC

Quote of the moment

The mosquito was on the canvas over his head. Nick moved the match quickly up to it. The mosquito made a satisfactory hiss.

--Ernest Hemingway

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Try to lose your McDonald's sensibilities.

--Dining car steward announcing Amtrak lunch on POR-PDX train

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Regulatory authorities are the enemy of progress.

--Liz Parrish

Headline of the moment

Why Researchers Turned This Goldfish Into a Cyborg

--NYT