"Eating five smaller meals a day will help you burn more calories."

"Quickies can add some fun and passion to your relationship."

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." -Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is a rude nobility, like that of a barbarian king, in this unshaken confidence in himself and indifference to the wants, thoughts, or sufferings of others. In his whole works I find no trace of pity," wrote Stevenson of Henry David Thoreau in Familiar Studies of Men and Books. Stevenson paints Thoreau as a man of contrasts, a figure who deserves his place in history even if he seems to have stumbled tactlessly into it. "Thus this singularly eccentric and independent mind, wedded to a character of so much strength, singleness, and purity, pursued its own path of self-improvement for more than half a century."
 

"Competition against daunting opponents makes your own performance worse."

A study by Northwestern University appearing in the Journal of Political Economy investigated 11 years of Tiger Woods' records against various PGA opponents, and found that the simple fact that they were facing Woods made them worse golfers. His opponents tended to play more conservatively when competing directly against him, taking shorter, safer shots. The economist Jennifer Brown estimates that the influence of this effect made Woods an extra $6 million overall.

 

GOT A MATCH?

Three guys are convicted of a very serious crime, and theyre all sentenced to twenty years in solitary confinement. Theyre each allowed one thing to bring into the cell with them.

The first guy asks for a big stack of books. The second guy asks for his wife. And the third guy asks for two hundred cartons of cigarettes.

At the end of the twenty years, they open up the first guys cell. He comes out and says, "I studied so hard. Im so bright now, I could be a lawyer. It was terrific."

They open up the second guys door. He comes out with his wife, and theyve got five new kids. He says. "It was the greatest thing of my life. My wife and I have never been so close. I have a beautiuful new family. I love it."

They open up the third guys door, and hes slapping at his pockets, going "Anybody got a match?"
 

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