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Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #politics #sarcasm #trickery #voting

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#bet #bets #daily #diversified #helps

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#childhood memories #come #eat #grill #guess

Don't underestimate the importance of having enough room to work. Grilling is much more relaxing when you are not trying to juggle a whole collection of plates and bowls as you do it. If your grill doesn't have enough workspace - and they almost never do - set up a table right next to your grill. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#bowls #collection #enough #grill #grilling

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#heat #just #like #source #stove

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#dish #go #heavy #main #main course

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#grill #grilling #jersey #jersey shore #lobster

I spin around and give him the finger down low, hoping Monsieur Boutin can't see. St. Clair responds by grinning and giving me the British version, the V-sign with his first two fingers. Monsieur Boutin tuts behind me with good nature. I pay for my meal and take the seat next to St. Clair. "Thanks. I forgot how to flip off the English. I'll use the correct hand gesture next time." "My pleasure. Always happy to educate. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#flipping-off #hand-gesture #education

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#education

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority. ↗

— Walter Karp

#homeschool #learning #school #education