Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

–Will Rogers

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

–H.L. Mencken

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a Judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”

–Albert Einstein

Scientists at the University of Leeds say that humans flock like sheep and birds, subconsciously following a minority of individuals.

“Results from a study at the University of Leeds show that it takes a minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd’s direction – and that the other 95 per cent follow without realising it.”

I see that phenomenon at my local Walmart all the time….

Read more here.

Words of Wisdom!

“Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over. So, if I find that some particular thing is causing me to have stress, that’s a warning flag for me. What it means is there’s something that I haven’t completely identified perhaps in my conscious mind that is bothering me, and I haven’t yet taken any action on it.

I find as soon as I identify it, and make the first phone call, or send off the first e-mail message, or whatever it is that we’re going to do to start to address that situation — even if it’s not solved — the mere fact that we’re addressing it dramatically reduces any stress that might come from it. So, stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn’t be ignoring, I think, in large part. ”

—Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder

Read the full interview here; did you know he was apparently a Quant b4 Amazon (i.e. late ’80’s, early 90’s–so don’t blame him for the ‘08-’09 meltdown!)?

Here’s a favorite site I’ve been using for years for printing free calendars (hearkens back to the early days of the internet–lots of geeky, free things). Why buy a calendar when you’ve got printfree.com?

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