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Things my mother taught me

My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE . 'If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.' My mother taught me RELIGION . 'You better pray that will come out of the carpet.' My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL . 'If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!' My mother taught me LOGIC . ' Because I said so, that's why.' My mother taught me MORE LOGIC . 'If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me.' My mother taught me FORESIGHT . 'Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident.' My mother taught me IRONY . 'Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about.' My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS . 'Shut your mouth and eat your supper.' My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM . 'Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!' My ...

Spot The Fake Smile

Most people are surprisingly bad at spotting fake smiles. One possible explanation for this is that it may be easier for people to get along if they don't always know what others are really feeling. Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they are actually slightly different, because they are brought about by different muscles, which are controlled by different parts of the brain. Fake smiles can be performed at will, because the brain signals that create them come from the conscious part of the brain and prompt the zygomaticus major muscles in the cheeks to contract. These are the muscles that pull the corners of the mouth outwards. Genuine smiles, on the other hand, are generated by the unconscious brain, so are automatic. When people feel pleasure, signals pass through the part of the brain that processes emotion. As well as making the mouth muscles move, the muscles that raise the cheeks – the orbicularis oculi and the pars orbitalis – also contra...

Quotable quotes on Marriage

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming with LOVE 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2. Whenever you're right, shut up. (Quoted By: Anonymous ) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. Hemant Joshi By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. Dumas The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want? Sigmund Freud I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Anonymous "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays....