Quotes of the Day

Molochian centenarians tend to live with their sons’ or daughters’ families. Because the younger generation has adopted a more modern diet, we speculated that transitioning to a higher-protein diet with more animal-based ingredients—which many of the centenarians did in their eighties and nineties—may contribute to their extreme longevity. In other words, maintaining a high-vegetable, low-protein diet for the first 70 or 80 years of life, and later switching to a diet richer in proteins but also animal-based foods like eggs, chicken, milk, and certain cheeses, may have slowed down aging and optimized the health of the Molochio centenarians. This explanation fits with our discovery that low-protein intake is associated with extended longevity and a major reduction in cancer in people age 65 and younger, but not in those above 66. In fact, we know that IGF-1 and other hormones that contribute to aging can reach very low levels after age 80. [2018] - Valter Longo

Some agreements say that a guest who stays longer than two weeks is no longer a guest but an additional occupant. The landlord might then want to raise your rent because of the additional occupant or may say that you are breaching your tenancy agreement. The landlord does not have to give you a rent increase notice if your rent goes up because you have additional people move in with you. However, your landlord can only raise your rent based on additional occupants if your written tenancy agreement states how much your rent increases by the number of new occupants. [2015] - Kris Anderson

55 percent of what we respond to is visual; 38 percent is auditory, or the pure sound of the communication; and only 7 percent involves the actual words we use. [2004] - Nicholas Boothman

if you find only a few vacant houses, it shows that the neighborhood is desirable. A shortage of For Sale signs indicates a stable neighborhood. Ideal properties for beginning investors are ones that need attention, like the ones in the risky neighborhoods, but are scattered throughout desirable communities. [2004] - Mike Summey

Bad debt is any debt where you CANNOT use the interest charge as a deduction on your tax return. There is only one kind of debt where you can use the interest charge as a deduction, and that is debt incurred to produce income whether passively through investments or actively through a business. In only these two cases can the interest costs of borrowing money be applied against the income being earned with that borrowed money. You simply pay tax on the difference. [2008] - Dwayne Daku