"A people that values its privileges above its princoples soon loses both".
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Think again before you hit the post button".
July 7 1928
Sliced bread sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. Described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.
By 1928, Rohwedder perfected a bread-slicing machine with Bench as the only investor and he marketed the sliced bread to the public. The patented machine not only sliced bread with multiple blades but also wrapped the bread efficiently.
Bench's Bakery sold their Kleen Maid sliced bread beginning on July 7, 1928.
By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom "greatest thing since sliced bread".
@MissAdventurous I do not live too far from Chillicothe (less than 45 minutes). The town now specializes in pre-cut meth.
@MissAdventurous Love those kind of history lessons.
A personal favourite quote of mine "There's no point driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad, you may as well give in and save your sanity for later."
@MissAdventurous You just reminded me of Beaver Fever for the first time in maybe years.
"We're bigger than sliced bread." Outrage from sliced bread fans ensues
"You twine around the people you love. And when they are gone, you grow around their absence instead. It is just another way they shape you." -Jaheira, Baldur's Gate 3
"The true horror of existence is not the fear of death, but the fear of life. It is the fear of waking up each day to face the same struggles, the same disappointments, the same pain. It is the fear that nothing will ever change, that you are trapped in a cycle of suffering that you cannot escape. And in that fear, there is a desperation, a longing for something, anything, to break the monotony, to bring meaning to the endless repetition of days."
— Albert Camus, The Fall
“The love you find within yourself will be yours forever.”
– BIANCA SPARACINO
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Graphic designer and illustrator Seymour Chwast reminds us that working harder may not be the answer:
"If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help."
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“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”
– HANK AARON
"At one time I thought air was free. Then I bought a bag of chips".
@gem7 Reminds me of a stand up comedy bit... A French guy sat one day and said, "you know how dumb I think the Americans are? I think we could sell them bottled water."
“So when installing the update it says to keep the car running. What if the car won’t start?”
"It doesn’t matter how successful or unsuccessful you are right now. What matters is whether your habits are putting you on the path toward success. You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results." - James Clear.
"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." - Mae West
"We like to think that we are in control. The truth, however, is that many of the actions we take each day are shaped not by purposeful drive and choice but by the most obvious option" - James Clear.
“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” – Desmond Tutu
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“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” – DOUGLAS PAGELS
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"Listen to the wind It talks, Listen to the silence It speaks, Listen to your heart, It knows.
Native American Proverb.
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