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Speaker 1 (February 18 is National Thumb Day)

· No matter where you are in the world, the moon is never bigger than your thumb.

· Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream. Linus VanPelt

· My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view. Fred Ale

Speaker 2

Speaker 2 (February 18 is National Thumb Day)

· You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone’s thumb.

· As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish. Craig Brown

· I’m a gardener, I have a big green thumb, and I can take care of these plants because they are all fake. Liza Koshy

Speaker 3

Speaker 3 (February 18 is National Thumb Day)

· If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can’t get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

· I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. Adam Hughes

· Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so we could send text messages. Diane Lane

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Speaker 4 (February 18 is National Thumb Day)

· If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it’s not nice, but it’s not the end of the world. Julian Baggini

· Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self-indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb. Courtney Love

· It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20’s. As if Mother Nature was giving me a big thumbs up.

Speaker 5

Speaker 5 (February 18 is National Thumb Day)

· You don’t need a great green thumb in order to make something look nice. A lot of times it’s just about cleaning up the weeds and trimming back the shrubs. Jonathan Scott

· My entire book was typed with three fingers and a very confident space-bar thumb. Sarah Millican

· They’re either going to fire you or they’re not. They can only fire you. That’s all they can do. They can’t take away your thumbs. Ron Livingston

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Speaker 6 (February 18 is National Thumb Day)

· Riches consists of being able to thumb your nose at things you don’t want to do. Josephine Tey

· Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard. Kristin Armstrong

· I’ve always been proud to be different, I’ve always stood out like a sore thumb and I always have not given a dam. Cree Summer

Speaker 7

Speaker 7 (February 18 is National Thumb Day)

· Where I come from, people lie so much that the truth stands out like a sore thumb. Easy-E

· My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our family restaurant on Cape Cod. Rachael Ray

· Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs, and the brainpower to build a space program. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Speaker 1

Speaker 1 (February 18 is National Battery Day)

· I once gave my kids batteries for Christmas with a note that said, “Toys not included.” – Bernard Manning

· Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running. – Bill Watterson

· I love walking alone. It’s therapy. One needs to be alone to recharge one’s batteries. – Grace Kelly

Speaker 2

Speaker 2 (February 18 is National Battery Day)

· Keep your friends close, and your charger closer.

· A dead battery can’t jump a dead battery. Get away from people who can’t charge your spirit when you need a jump.

· Life has no auto-settings, no batteries…you gots to wind it up! – Jeb Kickerson

Speaker 3

Speaker 3 (February 18 is National Battery Day)

· When life gives you lemons, construct a crude electrochemical battery.

· We want better batteries, but we’re wary of investing in them. We need a technology push and a market pull. – Donald Sadoway.

· My mood changes as the battery on my phone changes.

Speaker 4

Speaker 4 (February 18 is National Battery Day)

· Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or break but batteries….they die. Demetri Martin

· Smile is the electricity and life is the battery.

· Life is a battery test of character: your only break is sleep, you’re only done when you’re dead. – Brian Fabular

Speaker 5

Speaker 5 (February 18 is National Battery Day)

· Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go buy a DieHard – DieHard advertisement

· Everything on your phone becomes interesting when the battery hits 2%.

· If time doesn’t wait for you, just remove the battery from the clock and enjoy life.

Speaker 6

Speaker 6 (February 18 is National Battery Day)

· Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell. – Tom Robbins

· The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, so either the battery is dead or the hose is on fire. – Don DeLillo

· Why do we press harder on the remote control button when we know the battery is dead? Steven Wright

Speaker 7

Speaker 7 (February 18 is National Battery Day)

· Belief is a source of energy, like a battery which one clips to an idea to make it run. J.M. Coetzee

· Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device. – Ken Auletta

· Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives. – Donald Miller

Speaker 1

Speaker 1 (February 18 is National Drink Wine Day)

· I googled my symptoms… It turns out I need a bottle or three of wine.

· Stop drinking only water and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illness. – 1 Timothy 5:23

· If a glass of wine is good for you…imagine what a whole bottle could do!

Speaker 2

Speaker 2 (February 18 is National Drink Wine Day)

· That’s what I do. I drink wine and I know things. – Tyrion Lannister

· A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. – Louis Pasteur

· I tired cooking with wine. Didn’t go so well. After 5 glasses I forgot why I was in the kitchen.

Speaker 3

Speaker 3 (February 18 is National Drink Wine Day)

· I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food. – W.C. Fields

· In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. – Benjamin Franklin

· Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. – Joan Collins

Speaker 4

Speaker 4 (February 18 is National Drink Wine Day)

· Wine improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

· We are all mortal until the first kiss, and the second glass of wine. – Eduardo Galeano

· If I ever go missing, I want my picture on a bottle of wine instead of a milk carton. That way my friends will know I’m missing.

Speaker 5

Speaker 5 (February 18 is National Drink Wine Day)

· Drink wine: it isn’t good to keep things bottled up.

· In victory, you deserve Champagne; in defeat you need it. – Napoleon Bonaparte

· Spilling a glass of wine is the adult equivalent of letting to of a balloon.

Speaker 6

Speaker 6 (February 18 is National Drink Wine Day)

· I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I’m in love and when I’m not. – Coco Chanel

· Beer is made by men. Wine by God. – Martin Luther

· So, who is this “Moderation” everyone tells me to drink with?

Speaker 7

Speaker 7 (February 18 is National Drink Wine Day)

· Wine is the answer. I just don’t remember the question.

· A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. – Clifton Fadiman

· I do yoga to relax. Just kidding, I drink wine in my yoga pants.

Speaker 1

Speaker 1 (February 18 is Pluto Day)

· I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a “Save Pluto” campaign. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

· I’m just a Pluto in your vast solar system. – Rahul Pahwa

· A truth can exist for decades and in a moment vanish. Just ask Pluto. - R.J. Intindola

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Speaker 2 (February 18 is Pluto Day)

· There is a planet named Pluto, but we don’t have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies. – George Carlin

· I refuse to accept Pluto’s resignation as a planet. – Amy Lee

· I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moon in the solar system bigger than Pluto. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Speaker 3

Speaker 3 (February 18 is Pluto Day)

· A planet of extremes, it’s light as hard to penetrate as its darkness. Rock and ice – tough stuff Pluto’s made of. – Germaine Shames

· Neptune controls Pluto’s orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

· In the time it took scientists to discover Pluto, label it a planet, un-label it, then say it might be a planet again, it never made a full orbit around the sun.

Speaker 4

Speaker 4 (February 18 is Pluto Day)

· If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate the ice and it would grow a tail. Now that’s no kind of behavior for a planet. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

· No, a rose by any other name would NOT smell as sweet… I want my planet title back. – Pluto, Former 9th Planet

· Dear NASA, your mom thought I was big enough. – Pluto

Speaker 5

Speaker 5 (February 18 is Pluto Day)

· Some people like Pluto, and if it doesn’t exist then they don’t have a favorite planet, right? Please right back, but not in cursive because I can’t read cursive. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

· Pluto is not a planet, but I am. – Shaquille O’Neal

· Did you know that Pluto is so far away that from its surface the sun just looks like a regular star? – Corey Long

Speaker 6

Speaker 6 (February 18 is Pluto Day)

· No other country has an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

· Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto. – Dave Eggers

· We sat in silence looking at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished I was on that machine. – Elizabeth Chandler

Speaker 7

Speaker 7 (February 18 is Pluto Day)

· Pluto roams unloved and helpless. Unable to contemplate its fate, it searches for a black hole to put an end to the misery. – Rajesh

· “Dwarf Planet”? Might just as well call me a Pla-NOT. – Pluto, Former 9th Planet

· Pluto keeps revolving around the sun the same way it has been doing for billions of years. Pluto doesn’t care what others think about it. Be like Pluto!