"Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once" William Shakespeare
Very true JB- BUT! Did some one once say? "Better to be a Live Coward, than a Dead Hero" Sometimes I sits and Wonders, Sometimes I just Sits Now! I just Wonder :( Jack P. :o
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. John Lennon
as the saying goes..."He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day" An old friend of mine from my youth,. upset some people and I gave him that advice....sadly about two years later as a Doorman he was stabbed and fatally wounded.
John Lennon! :( Sorry to here about your friend JB, maybe another Lyrical Quote, from a Great man, should be, and listened to by others; " LET IT BE!" Jack P.:(
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. - John Steinbeck
'Do you spell it with a ''V'' or a ''W''?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord,' replied Sam [Weller]. -Charles Dickens 1812-70: Pickwick Papers (1837)
"The whiter the bread the sooner your're dead" John Robbins in his book, 'Healthy at 100'. If interested, this is what he has to say about it, comparing white flour to wheat flour. John Robbins says in his reference "Healthy At 100": Eat an average of seven servings of vegetables a day, seven servings of whole grains a day, two servings of soy products a day, and fish two or three times a week. Eat almost no meat or dairy products. Eat very little sugar or added fats. WHITE FLOUR He also discusses the danger of consuming white bread, in a section entitled: "THE WHITER THE BREAD, THE SOONER YOU'RE DEAD" in which he dislays a table showing the percentage of nutrients lost when whole wheat flour is refined into white flour: Protein: 25 percent lost Fiber: 95 percent lost Calcium: 56 percent lost Copper: 62 percent lost Iron: 84 percent lost Manganese: 82 percent lost Phosphorus: 69 percent lost Potassium: 74 percent lost Selenium: 52 percent lost Zinc: 76 percent lost Vitamin B1: 73 percent lost Vitamin B2: 81 percent lost Vitamin B3: 80 percent lost Vitamin B5: 56 percent lost Vitamin B6: 87 percent lost Folate: 59 percent lost Vitamin E: 95 percent lost He further states: Whole grains clearly protect against cancer. But whole grains make up less than 1 percent of the average American diet. Note: I often buy natural "Ezekiel Bread" such as from Trader Joe's, Sprouts, and other quality health stores. SUGAR TIME Food manufacturers put such massive amounts of refined sugars in foods for a simple reason: to stimulate appetite. People whose appetites are stimulated eat more food. This is good for sales, but it is also why excess sugar consumption is so strongly linked to obesity. People eating highly refined and processed foods typically consume 25 percent more calories than those on a more natural diet. Thanks to the roughly $4 billion a year in federal subsidies handed to corn growers in the US, high-fructose corn syrup has become so cheap that it can now be found in almost every processed food, even ones like soups and salad dressings that didn't used to be sweetened. Some studies indicate that corn syrup is even worse than cane sugar. A single 12-ounce can of soda pop has about 13 teaspoons of sugar in the form of high- fructose corn syrup. Today, the average American drinks about 55 gallons of soda pop a year. Ten to 15 percent of all calories consumed by American teenage girls come from soft drinks. Many US schools today actually have more soft drink machines than water fountains. The result isn't pretty. We've got a lot of overfed and overweight people who are always hungry and are actually undernourished. Despite the excessive number of calories they are eating, their cells are not getting the nutrients they need. So, essentially, if you want to become malnourished, obese, and toothless, then foods high in refined sugar and corn syrup are your ticket. Reference: John Robbins (2006), "Healthy At 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples", Random House, ISBN 1-4000-6521-6.
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. - William Makepeace Thackeray: 'Sorrows of Werther' (1855)
"Hitler didn't want unions. Stalin didn't want unions. Mubarak didn't want independent unions. These autocrats in history don't want independent unions." Sherrod Brown on Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 in a speech in the Senate