25. Purchase fine art, and know at least one notable artist from each period.
“When I was a child, my mother said to me, “If you become a soldier you’ll be a general. If you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” -Pablo Picasso
26. Buy all your high school yearbooks, one from kindergarten one from 5th and 8th grades as well.
27. Grooming is important. Waxing, threading, shaving, all necessary evils.
28. Keep a journal and try to write in it everyday. LISTEN TO The Ataris “In This Diary”
29. Always smile in pictures. 
30. Learn to speak another, if not two foreign languages.
La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoin ce qu’on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
31. You must see Europe in three ways, lavishly alone, poorly with friends, and in love at any value. LISTEN TO MC Solaar “La Belle et le Bad Boy”
32.Always have a firm handshake
33. Carry business cards starting the day you declare a major.
34. It is always better to be under dressed than over dressed, but best to be dressed as requested.
35. Boys: when it comes to 3-button suit jackets remember Sometimes|Always|Never
36. If you own a truck you will be the ‘moving friend’ accept your role courteously.
37. Learn to play tennis, singles and doubles.
38. Indulge in Broadway plays, original cast if you can. LISTEN TO Original Broadway Cast of WICKED “Defying Gravity”
39. Subscribe to at least one local magazine, so that you may stay abreast of local society.
40. Girls: don’t bite your nails. 
41. Take summer vacations, rejuvenation is key to survival.
42. Stay politically aware, but do no buy into factions.
43. Never salt your food before you’ve tasted it, and if you’re at a dinner party don’t salt it at all.
44. When out to eat, he who suggested the meal pays the bill. Although I’m always keen on men footing, I will not make it a ‘rule’.
45. Know your history. Your grand-parents and great-grand parents are better than any history book.
46. Grasp the importance of 1.20.2009 and 11.4.2008. 
This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
~President Barack Obama
47. Keep your eyes open on a rollercoaster.
48. Never ask for directions in New York City. LISTEN TO Billy Joel “New York State of Mind”
49. Get your clothes professionally tailored. Especially evening & formal wear.
50. If you own a dog, walk it everyday.
I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that. ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth
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