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The Platinum Rule and Other Contrarian Sayings: The First 60 Years

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Tuchy Palmieri appears to have a bottomless well filled with quotations thoughts and pithy comments. His new book "The Platinum Rule and Other Contrarian Sayings - The First 60 Years" contains a diverse sampling of these thoughts. Many of Tuchy's books are directed at specific topics, problems or groups of people but, this one can be of benefit to all.

Many of these sayings like:
- Most people are satisfied with their unsatisfaction. Or;
- Just because the path is straight and narrow does not mean it's the right one for you to take. are contrarian in nature as the title indicates. These are most useful after you sit and contemplate them for awhile.

Other sayings are strait forward and obviously true:
While it is true that you can win a battle and lose the war it is equally true that you cannot
win the war without winning a battle.

Overall this is a very good collection that you can sit and contemplate and learn from.

In Tuchy Palmieri's book The Platinum Rule and Other Contrarian Sayings - The First 60 Years - Tuchy brings together another wonderful group of sayings / quotations. This collection has points to ponder, words to live by and thoughts that can be inspirational.

This work contains over 500 thoughts and sayings and the vast majority are different from those in Mr Palmieri's other books. I found the quotes/ comments to be enlightening and encouraging. There is inspiration on every page.

I feel that the book can be used to provide quick pick-me-ups for people and to provide thoughts to ponder and words of advice. I can see that this collection will be useful and inspiring to all people that are coping with life's trials and tribulations.

This is book represents Tuchy Palmieri creating literature designed to help us find the positive aspects in life.

I like to consider myself a wordsmith and have written many poems and short stories and I absolutely love books like this one. There are so many interesting and true words spoken in the pages of this book, I truly enjoyed reading it from beginning to end. Words of wisdom to live by, interesting observations, I was impressed and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys getting a nice look into the thoughts of intelligent human beings. I will be referring back to this book and memorizing a few things to say that I feel merit repeating to my friends and family! I will be telling everyone where I got the phrase from, too! I give this one five stars!

I always enjoy Touchy's book because just when I think he has run out of stuff he comes out with another thought provoking book. His books are really collections of thoughts, quotes, or proverbs that have long been around yet he always puts a new twist to them. He gets the reader to think differently about even the quotes and sayings they have heard throughout their lives, and I appreciate that ability. His stuff is a little bit of everything, any day of the week you pick it up you will find something, whether it be motivational, heartwarming, inspiring, or just plain interesting.

"The Platinum Rule and Other contrarian Sayings- The First 60 Years" is another quote book by Touchy covering a variety of topics and kind of all over the place and covering everyday life encounters. As always his quotes are great to sit down and read and ponder over coffee...even longer sometimes. Touchy appears to never run out of wisdom or insight and can reach the heart and mind of everyone willing to pick up the book. This one would be a great introductory to Touchy is a reader has never read a book of his because it has it all. There is organizational categorization to the book that can allow you to read on a specific topic if wanted.

"The Platinum Rule..." is a collection of quotes in various topics with a unconventional point of view; they encourage the reader to think out-of-the-box. Carl "Tuchy" Palmieri has given us a wonderful book full of wisdom and insight, that many will cherish and look back on through life. Because the topics in this book vary so widely, this book is applicable to everyone. It would make a great addition to anyone's library, and would be a great gift idea for the thinker in your life.

Over the course of many years, Tuchy Palmieri has collected a wide variety of quotations on many topics with a contrarian view of many proverbs and teachings that we grew up with. He offers a different point of view and challenges us to think of the "other side" of things. It is a very inspiring read, filled with gems of wisdom like "In life it is not doing the right thing, nor in doing things right that is important, what's important is doing the right things right."

This book is filled with quotes-some motivational, some just interesting. I really enjoyed reading through these and I think this will be one of my "go-to" collections of quotes. There are a few that are reworded and given to us twice, but they are still insightful in both versions.

The randomness of the quotes is nice for just browsing, but at the same time if they had been categorized by subject that would be helpful for looking for a quotation on a certain subject.

When you think of a saying or proverb do you ever think about the opposing point of view? Well that is what Carl "Tuchy" Palmieri did in his book "The Platinum Rule and Other Contrarian Sayings: The First 60 Years". The book is a true delight to read. The author provides plenty to think about by including 522 sayings, aphorisms, quips and quotes. I definitely recommend this book to anyone that wants a lighthearted, enjoyable book that you can read time and time again.

Carl "Tuchy" Palmieri has once again given us a book to be enjoyed over and over again. "The Platinum Rule and Other Contrarian Sayings: The First 60 Years" is fun to read from cover to cover and then keep on a shelf to pick up, open to random pages and enjoy the sayings you find. The book contains more than 500 sayings, quotations, proverbs, quips and truisms that will make you smile. Each of the sayings are followed with one that gives the opposite point of view to make you really stop and think about the subject. A great read that you are sure to enjoy!