Nuggets Misc
Miscellaneous Nuggets
By Jim Humberd
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A great wit is a terrible thing to waste. A terrible wit is a great thing to waste.
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A picture is worth a thousand words. A visit is worth a thousand pictures. The video is priceless.
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A scene from the mid-1930s, on a video, shows Amelia Earhart sitting at our desk, or at least an exact copy of our desk.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr said: �There is always a little thrill one gets from saying things well.�
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My tennis partner, Bob, said, �In 1944 I flew my B-24 bomber 35,000 feet over Melk, Austria, on the way to bomb Vienna. Melk was marked on our map, we must not bomb!�
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Breathes there a man with soul so dead � That he is not gratified by another's appreciation of his home, his city, and his country.
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Four blond haired, sleeping Amish children were sitting in the horse-drawn buggy, in an arrangement that can be best described as a �baseball diamond� - home-plate and the three bases. Our camera was in the trunk.
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Dorothy Parker said: �The cure for Boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for Curiosity.�
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Each and every Nugget is true, we lived them all, wrote each and every word.
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G'son John opened a package containing a colorful striped T-shirt. He happily threw it into the fireplace. It looked just like the colored gift paper others threw in the fire.
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Health costs could be reduced if the doctor did not prescribe a medical procedure or a pill that the patient can not pronounce.
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Health costs in this country are so high, because a $5,000 funeral is delayed by an expensive medical procedure.
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If you cut a tree, plant a tree. If you dig a hole, fill a hole.
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If you want to see an antique, just look in the mirror.
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If you were not busy, you would not be worth talking to.
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It ain't what you got, it's what you do with it that counts.
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It is just as important to know what you are against, as it is to know what you are for.
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Justice Thomas said: �This job is easy for those who have never done it.�
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My Uncle Jesse�s house was �wired� for lights. In each room there was a wire dangling from the ceiling where he could hang a kerosene lamp.
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People complain about the idle-rich, and the idle-poor. The one because they are idle. The other because they are rich.
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No one makes a penny cutting down a tree, building a house, or drilling an oil well. They make money when someone wants to buy a house, a newspaper, or a tank of gasoline.
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On our first cruise ship, at one meal I asked for two Filet Mignon, just to see what would happen. So they brought me three.
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On the Island of Saipan, we visited Garapan Prison where Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan had been held prisoner.
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People often referred to him as �Sweet Old Bob.� Usually that phrase was abbreviated.
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Remember all the time you spent on frivolous things like eating and sleeping, when you could have been hugging and kissing.
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Roosevelt said, "There is nothing to Fear but Fear itself." Obama said, "There is nothing to Change but Change itself. I said, "We have no need for Fear or Change, we need IMPROVEMENT."
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Since my mother was named Anna Marie, the Great-Granddaughter was named Joanna Marie.
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The ambiance of the outdoor buffet on one Cruise Ship, was �early High School,� and the buffet food came in only one �flavor.�
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The drunken four man Ohio State Guard Band jam-session spectacular, dramatic musical arrangement of TAPS required a fifth - of liquor the next morning. Even then, they could not repeat the wonderful sounds of the night before.
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The very pretty nurse could cause problems in a Heart Hospital. The patient might wake up and see her, and think he had died and gone to Heaven.
The eye can see and the heart can love, what the word cannot describe.
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The Main Stream Media consists of Scribblers and Babblers.
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The local newspaper on the Island of Truk said, �We are caught between the Coca Cola can and the Coconut tree.�
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THE RIGHTS, THE DUTIES, AND THE PRIVILEGES PROTECTED AND GUARANTEED BY THIS SOCIETY, DO NOT (AND MUST NEVER) INCLUDE THE RIGHT TO DESTROY THIS SOCIETY!
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The teacher thought some lucky boy might see Mary Ellen's panties reflected in her shiny patent leather shoes.
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There should be a plaque, or an award of some kind presented to the Island of Bikini, for excellence in swim suit design.
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There was a murder in the street right in front of our apartment in Palm Desert. We didn't know either party.
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We felt safe when we found that one of Betty Ford's Secret Service agents was spending a lot of nights with one of our neighbors.
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We said the �rookie� Custom's man, at the Los Angeles harbor, might have thrown us in jail if we grumbled. His boss said it was his first day on the job, and he was just doing each and every, and he meant every, thing they taught him in training.
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We, poor people, scheduled to fly to Europe in a few weeks, did not want to be marooned on the South Pacific Island of Saipan.
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What makes you think doing something worthless, is better than doing nothing at all?
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What is the difference between a cane and a walking stick? Answer then, �Twenty years.� Answer now, �Twenty Seconds.� I also call it my �Sympathy Stick.�
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When people say the US is ��one nation, indivisible �� consider the few similarities and the many differences between the Maine lobster trapper and his home and way of life, with the cowboy in Montana, and with the people who live on the mountain-side above Beverly Hills in Southern California! Not major differences that would make the people incompatible and contentious, but a shade of difference, that adds character and interest to both the people and their land.
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What a fascinating place for these people to live! What a fascinating place for us to visit!
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Wouldn't you rather trust everyone all of the time and be wrong once in a while, than trust no one at any time, and be right once in a while. I applied that in my business.
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You must demand some reasonable association between effort and excitement.
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Your adaptability can make the difference. Plans may be changed by factors outside your control.
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