Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Advertising

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    Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.Mark Twain

  • No cannibalism?

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    News this week about the Donner party to California, as reported by CNN, “Research: Donners didn’t resort to cannibalism” alleges that the Donners themselves did not resort to cannibalism during their fateful trip to the “Promised Land” of California, based on the fact that there were no burnt human bones found at the Alder Creek…

  • Firefights

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    People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.Abigail Van Buren

  • Help! I’ve lost my focus

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    This excellent article in Time about “Multitasking”, and the sidebar The Case for Doing One Thing at a Time, 16 January 2006, had some really good quotes from Suze Orman, the diva of personal finance:Personal-finance guru Suze Orman, despite an exhausting array of media and entrepreneurial commitments, utterly refuses to check messages, answer her phone…

  • Still no answer

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    No one has yet been able to tease out the precise mix of genetics, temperament and environment that makes one person a recreational user and another a lifelong addict, but clearly there is no single cause.Time, Balding, Wrinkled, and Stoned, 23 January, 2006

  • Teenagers

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    Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.J. B. Priestley

  • Mistakes

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    Mistakes are the portals of discovery.James Joyce