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When the great lakes were formed they were covered with a layer of ice more than two miles thick. Today they are becoming shallower as the earth’s crust springs back toward its original shape like the surface of a rubber ball.

‘What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk? and after you’re real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lay down and go to sleep.’

‘If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.’ - Voltaire

One man’s brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many … — Anthony Chevins

Chicken-man Frank Perdue’s slogan, ‘It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken,’ got terribly mangled in another Spanish translation. A photo of Perdue with one of his birds appeared on billboards all over Mexico with a caption that explained ‘It takes a hard man to make a chicken aroused.’