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Mistakes involving $100 are better than mistakes involving $100,000. 7. My all-time favorite Warren Buffett quote: "We like things that you don't have to carry out to three decimal places. If you ...
Image credits: TheGoodJudgeHolden #3. Literally just learned about the snipping tool on Windows today. Up to this point I had done a screenshot, then paste into paint, then crop my selection from ...
Image credits: dumbinternetstuff #17. People aren’t equal. I don’t mean by race. Racism is nonsense. Some people are good looking nice smart and athletic and had the right upbringing.
One might also say that an unlikely event will happen "on the 32nd of the month". To express indefinite postponement, you might say that an event is deferred "to the [Greek] Calends" (see Latin). A less common expression used to point out someone's wishful thinking is Αν η γιαγιά μου είχε καρούλια, θα ήταν ...
Jack Robinson is a name present in two common figures of speech. When referring to Jack Robinson, it is used to represent quickness. In contrast, the phrase "(A)round Jack Robinson's barn" has the opposite connotation, implying slowness, as it is often used to refer to circumlocution, circumvention, or doing things in roundabout or unnecessarily complicated ways.
Moderation in all things; Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living, and a child that is born on the Sabbath day is fair and wise and good and gay
Larger-than-life things are hardly anything new as they’ve been around since ancient history. But absolute units as a specific pop culture idea are 7 years old. The idea is fairly straightforward.
Fear isn’t rare—we all have things we’re scared of, whether that’s heights (hey!), spiders, open water, snakes, or, well, anything and everything. A phobia you may have heard a little less ...