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Ringo almost quit being a drummer in the early 1960s (before the Beatles) to become a hairdresser. Paul almost quit the Beatles early on to get a stable job (his dad wanted him to). Paul’s first girlfriend was pregnant in 1961 and they almost got married but then she had a miscarriage. Stuart Sutcliffe, early member of Beatles, sudden death from brain haemorrhage. Beatles toured in 2 hotel rooms (2 twin beds per).

“most of us voted for Vice President Edward Jay Smith. None of us wanted an empty man like Smith in the White House, but even a man without an idea in his head is better than a man who means to lash us all back to his particular God…”

"In natural systems there is no guilt or virtue, only success or failure, measured by survival and nothing more. Time is the judge. If you manage to pass on what you have to the next generation, then what you did was right."

Is philanthropy ethical if the money was obtained doing unethical things, like causing the opioid crisis or selling tobacco? Using intentionally duplicitous practices?

The importance of keeping an open mind, not pre-defining the problem, welcoming those afflicted to join the solution generating team

95% of farmland is owned by whites in the US. Farm workers are not protected by labor laws.

Billionaires want to go live on Mars but aren’t brave enough to set foot in the Bronx.

“Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges.”

“People shouldn’t be allowed to live so far away. What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It’ll catch up with you anyway.” (Postman delivering mail)

So far: star-nosed moles can smell underwater! And tentacled snakes take advantage of a fish’s C-start flee response to snag them in their jaws.