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The Best Quote of 2006

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:27:46 GMT

Best Quote Of 2006?
By Chris Rock
2-28-7

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy,the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick, and Colon. --Comedian Chris Rock

Tags: chris rock, comedy, joke, jokes, humor, quote, quotes

Great Google Search Tips

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:33:12 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Useful tips if you're into researching anything. More on site

Clip Source: blog.outer-court.com

Google Search Tips 2005

Here are some search syntax basics and advanced tricks for Google.com. You might know most of these, but if you spot a new one, it may come in handy in future searches.

A quote/ phrase search can be written with both quotations ["like this"] as well as a minus in-between words, [like-this].

You can find synonyms of words. E.g. when you search for [house] but you want to find “home” too, search for [~house]. To get to know which synonyms the Google database stores for individual words, simply use the minus operator to exclude synonym after synonym (they will always show as bold in the SERPs, the search engine result pages). Like this: [~house -house -home -housing -floor].

Google has a lesser known “numrange” operator which can be helpful. Using e.g. [2000..2005] (that’s two dots inbetween two numbers) will find 2000, 2001, 2002 and so on until 2005.

Google has some exciting back-end AI to allow you to find just the facts upong entering simple questions or phrases like [when was Einstein born?] or [einstein birthday] (the answer to both of these queries is “Albert Einstein – Date of Birth: 14 March 1879”). This feature was introduced April this year and is called Google Q&A. (See some of the various working Q&A sample queries to get a feeling for what’s possible.)

Sometimes, Google warns you about its results, especially when they might seem like promoting hate sites (of course, only someone misunderstanding how Google works could think it’s them promoting hate sites). Enter [jew], and you will see a Google-sponsored link titled “Offensive Search Results” leading to this explanation.

For some of the more popular “Googlebombed” results, like when you enter [failure] and the first hit is the biography of George W. Bush, Google displays explanatory ads titled “Why these results?”.

Tags: google, research

Buddha quote

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:35:30 GMT

clipped by: crazyken33

Clip Source: www.meaninginmylife.com

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." -Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha), 563-483 B.C.

Tags: buddhism, philosophy, religion, truth

Words That Changed You - iVillage Top 10

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:28:56 GMT

clipped by: Xeneri
clipper's remarks: "Has anyone ever said something to you — a piece of advice, a word of comfort, a bit of inspiration — that you've just never forgotten?" From inspiring mantras to heartfelt expressions of empathy and encouragement, here are just a few of the amazing nuggets of wisdom iVillagers have taken to heart. They might change you too.

Clip Source: health.ivillage.com

Words That Changed You

"Wise choices often mean rough going." My uncle told me this last year when I was going through a difficult time, and he was absolutely correct: While I knew I'd made the best decision for myself, it didn't mean I had removed all obstacles. His words gave me hope and strength to continue.

I was at work one day feeling depressed, and a legal assistant I work with (she was a Polish refugee) looked at me and said, "The only one who is going to take care of you is you." It was an aha moment. I think I was waiting for someone to step in and help me when really, no one was able to — or going to.

"Let go or be dragged."

Advice from the iVillage boards: "Our feelings may not be entirely in our control, but our responses are our choice. You have to choose to be happy, choose to be the bigger person, choose not to let someone impact your life in a negative way."

"The only way out is through." It's a phrase that stuck in my mind throughout a bad breakup.

After my husband's death, a church acquaintance wrote me a letter to say that her husband died at the same young age and under nearly identical circumstances. She then finished with, "I cannot imagine what you are going through." That filled me with the most incredible relief and warmth. Obviously she'd gone through the same thing, obviously she must have shared some of my own feelings, but she had the grace not to presume what they were.

"Don't let people rent space in your head." It was an important realization for me at a time when I was really obsessing about my ex.

"If a man tells you he doesn't know what he wants, he doesn't know what he's got."

A quote that I have on my office wall and read daily: "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."

My mother's mantra: "If the problem is something you cannot change, then you must change your attitude toward it."

Tags: relationships, quotes, wellbeing, health, wellness, wisdom, inspiration, life, love

Einstein on Buddhism

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:35:10 GMT

clipped by: venezolano

Clip Source: ravingatheists.com

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein

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I Am My Own God

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:50:17 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Wow. The beer bit is really profound!

Clip Source: www.quotationspage.com

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski
US (German-born) author & poet (1920 - 1994)

Tags: cbgc, beer, quote

Einstein Quote

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:22:23 GMT

clipped by: bunnicula
clipper's remarks: I like this one.

Clip Source: quoteworld.org

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

Tags: albert einstein, einstein, quotes, genius

Einstein said....And I quote!'

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:34:47 GMT

clipped by: PspMistress

Clip Source: rescomp.stanford.edu

Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Tags: quotes, einstein

Why The Loudest are Often the Most Wrong

Sun, 06 May 2007 03:37:49 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: This classic paper by Kruger and Dunning, Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, examines the psychological reasons for the unfortunately common correlation between ignorance and confidence.

We argue that when people are incompetent in the strategies they adopt to achieve success and satisfaction, they suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it. Instead, like Mr. Wheeler, they are left with the mistaken impression that they are doing just fine. As Miller (1993) perceptively observed in the quote that opens this article, and as Charles Darwin (1871) sagely noted over a century ago, "ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

(PDF here.)

Clip Source: gagne.homedns.org

Abstract
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities.

Tags: ignorance, crank, cranks, troll, trolls, skill, psychology, learning, confidence, expert, study, science

What a Lady

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:42:04 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: I'd like to take credit for this clip, but someone sent it to me because it was their favorite quote. Someone who had a lot of great ideas that I'm looking forward to hearing more of in the future. Go for it honey.

Clip Source: www.quotedb.com

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Tags: social, change, is, difficult

A writer is a person who cares about words.

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:40:45 GMT

clipped by: mihla
clipper's remarks: When I was struggling as a freelance writer, this quote was my mantra. Often when I told people I was a writer, their response was, "What have you written?" Later, when I was conducting memoir writing and personal history, I used the quote again to convince my students they were writers.

Clip Source: www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com

Pinned up on a corkboard above my computer monitor, I've got this quote, printed on a piece of sky-blue cardstock:

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper. ~Ursula K. Le Guin

A writer is a person who cares about words. Not a person who is paid for writing, or is world-renowned for her books. To be a writer, you just have to care about words. And for the duration of this class, you're going to be a writer. Because you're going to be thinking and caring about words---what they mean and how to use them to say what you mean. You're going to be overcoming your journaling fears, quelling whatever "I can't write" demons you've got, discovering the happiness that is a well-wrought sentence. You're doing all this because you're thinking about your readers, whoever they are (yourself in the future, your daughter when she's all grown up, your son's not-yet-made great grandson, or even some random stranger), about how you can affect them. And as you go through this process of finding your hidden writer, you'll find yourself changing, too.

Tags: writing, writer, journaling, storytelling

Barack Obama on Iraq - 2002

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:14:33 GMT

clipped by: jmk432
clipper's remarks: I love this quote! And it was in 2002!

Clip Source: en.wikisource.org

Barack Obama's Iraq Speech

Delivered on 26 October 2002.

That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

Now let me be clear – I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity.

He’s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.

But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, that the Iraqi economy is in shambles, that the Iraqi military a fraction of its former strength, and that in concert with the international community he can be contained until, in the way of all petty dictators, he falls away into the dustbin of history.

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the middle east, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.

I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.

Tags: barack, obama, iraq

Are GM Crops Killing the Bees?

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:28:48 GMT

clipped by: quickstar
clipper's remarks: This is quite scary... especially the prediction by Einstein! It makes sense, though... no bees = no food. Read the full article for more.

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

Are GM Crops Killing Bees?

A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous.

The problem, says Haefeker, has a number of causes, one being the varroa mite, introduced from Asia, and another is the widespread practice in agriculture of spraying wildflowers with herbicides and practicing monoculture. Another possible cause, according to Haefeker, is the controversial and growing use of genetic engineering in agriculture.

As far back as 2005, Haefeker ended an article he contributed to the journal Der Kritischer Agrarbericht (Critical Agricultural Report) with an Albert Einstein quote: "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."

Tags: gm, gmo, genetics, food, health, science

Top 10 Rules of Punctuation

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:43:23 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: I; HATE! it when people: misuse simple, punctuations?!?!?!

Clip Source: listverse.com

10. Comma

Use commas to separate independent clauses in a sentence

The Oxford Comma

I love apples, pears, and oranges.

9. Period

There are stylistic differences here.

8. Question Mark

One thing to be careful of is to not include a question mark when it is not needed:

WRONG: I wonder how many people will come to the party?

7. Exclamation Mark

Two or three exclamation marks in a row is completely unnecessary.

6. Quote Marks

Punctuation with quotations

5. Colon

A colon should be used after a complete statement in order to introduce one or more directly related ideas

4. Semicolon

Use a semicolon to join related independent clauses in compound sentences.

3. Apostrophe

The apostrophe has three uses:

1) to form possessives of nouns
2) to show the omission of letters
3) to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.

2. Parentheses

Parentheses are occasionally and sparingly used

1. Dash

Hyphen

Use a hyphen with the prefixes

You should also use a hyphen to avoid confusion in a sentence:

He had to re-sign the contract

Tags: punctuation, grammar, english, language, writing

Great quote about Christianity and hatred

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:40:12 GMT

clipped by: Ravenlock
clipper's remarks: So many Christians just don't get this.

Clip Source: reddit.com

As Anne Lamott wrote, "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Tags: religion, politics