Will Pearson
Will Pearson
William E. Pearsonis the co-founder of mental floss, a bi-monthly magazine, which he started with Mangesh Hattikudur when both were students at Duke University. Pearson graduated from Duke in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Describing himself, Pearson noted his penchant for eating two M&M's at the same time, on different sides of the mouth, "making both sides of the mouth equally happy". Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur met as freshmen at Duke University and in their...
association way pleasure
I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
cat sight hands
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.
winning waste gains
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
peace clever war
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
powerful one-day groups
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
stupid skills political
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
today groups individual
Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
mistake people political
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
hockey games leafs
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.
form medieval planes
Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.
grandma grandmother law
I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
perspective week
I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.
wise people enough
It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
simple play three
When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.