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Brendan I. Koerner has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in…
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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York…
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept…
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the…
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Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,…
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Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a…
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The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and…
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Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can…
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American…
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Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending…
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Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are…
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How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
— Gerry Spence
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the…
— Tecumseh
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Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by…
— Elsa Schiaparelli
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You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb…
— Ray Charles
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The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering…
— Gautama Buddha
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The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot…
— Marshall McLuhan
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And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean…
— Donald Miller
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If you are not living with a whole heart now, the end of the world poses no threat; your life is already…
— Alan Cohen
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Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a…
— Jim Rohn
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Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However,…
— Ernie J Zelinski
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If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter…
— Frederick Lenz
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