Bohemia F.D.

[Unregistered14]

6 Officers Resigned.

Now The Chief Also?

Who Is Running The Ship

[Unregistered f-up]

6 Officers Resigned.

Now The Chief Also?

Who Is Running The Ship

Comm. VAN JONHSON of CORAM he's F-up CORAM F.D.

[Bohemia Volly]

6 Officers Resigned.

Now The Chief Also?

Who Is Running The Ship

Who are you?

[Unregistered777777]

as usual, the commisioners are running the ship.z They don't know how to let a chief do their job.z As soon as they feel threatened by any member, whether it be an officer or just a firefighter, they black list them.z It is ridiculous how a board of fire commissioners can go 7 months with out a chief of the dept.z Ecspecially when the two assistant chiefs are not active at all or have any clue what they are doing.z The leaders of this dept need to start listening to the membership and what they want instead of listening to a small group of the dept and stop being afraid of what this small group will say.

[Unregistered98]

Lets face it.... That dept hasn't even close to hit bottom yet........... The membership needs to voice their opinionsl. From my understanding, there is a very small group in that dept that feel threatened as soon as someone questions them. That group is on their way out........ and they need to realize that And we all know loosing their 30 wasn't a catastrophe. Hehad know clue what he was doing and was carried for many many years. Its amazing what happened when he was left to do a job but there was no one there to back him up....SHAME ON THE ASSTS.

[LOLhemia]

no officers, no chiefs to run the show....and then the 1st asst. chief throws 2 class B exchiefs in charge????? that place is falling apart! call a surrounding department if you want a place that can actually put a fire out...a department that knows how to lay out hose and not charge a bed! And if you can get your hands on the "commisioners book" as some of the bonehemia comms. call it....im sure you can find a way to toss their asses out of office.

[LOLhemia]

Who are you?



Bet your one of the commisioners boy's, diggin for dirt from the members!

[bohemia2000]

Hopefully this is rock bottom. I don't think it can get much worse. Dept. county drill with 5 class A fireman showing up and no probies??? I wonder if any of the "coordinators" or chiefs will be calling the probies and asking them why they didn't show up for mandatory training, or if their will be any reprocussions. On 2nd thought, I know the answer to that.

[Unregistered777777]

Its funny..........chiefs sons and commissioners grandchildren get caught drinking underage and stealing beer from refrigerator on memorial day and here it is almost 3 weeks later and nothing is done............hilariousnn guess they are on the good list and not the black list.nn their 31's head is so big that it isn't even funny..........he forgets he only one by one vote and is sure to loose if anyone runs against him next year

[Unregistered31230]

Doesn't everyone realize that certain ex chiefs in that dept can't give up thier power. I will not argue that they have def dont the dept good in the past. However, the membership has changed and the members want to step up but certain ex chiefs won't let them........... WORD FOR THE WISE>..... LISTEN TO WHAT THE MEMBERS WANT,,,,,,,, strauss, audet, fagan, behonek, schaffer you all say you do whats best for the dept but in fact you divide the dept more.... you represent your views and not the views of the members.......... believe it or not you guys views are not the always the right views... times have changed......... change with times..................... put a 30 in there that can get this dept back on track and train the officers the right way...... 31 def cant do that or should i say mr. october

[HOUSTON909]

If you guys know what is right for Bohemia Fire why don't you run to become an officer or chief so you can make the changes??????

[Unregistered31230]

IF you knew what was going on in Bohemia, you would nt be asking that....... The members voted in a 1st asst chief, which he won by a large margin against two other members and recieved ten less votes than the chief of the dept, who ran unopposed, but since he was not one of the commissioners boys, the commissioners turned him down....yes this member made a mistake over a year ago (which was blown out of proportion) and served his punishment (which was excessive). Its funny how the commissioners forget what they did when they were chiefs or what they do now as commissioners (jus ask audet and his hookers).............the commisoners need to get off their high horses like their shit don't stink....... guarnanteed each commissioner faces oppostion the next 5 years. bet you we won't see have of them run because they know they will loose........

[rain rain go away]

hell of a rain storm. There was almost as much rain as bullshit on this site

[Unregistered31230]

No bullshit............all legitimate!!!!!!!!!!! Commissioners can do no wrong

[111j]

gHey 31 don't get to comfortable in your new office just yet.

[111j]

Well boys lets not forget that we have an election comming up for commish. lets start with behonek and work our way down the list FAGAN AUDETT GRACE WILIHMY, (next time audett stands up at the dept meeting with another one of his answers on how great the board is) let him know how we feel about him). thats the only way we could start the change. As someone stated earlier no loss with 30 leaving, and lets not forget the wonderful cordinators CLASS B FIREMAN STRAUSS, CLASS B FIREMAN AUDETT and always a fan favorite DICK the boys at county must be so proud of you on your promotion. lets not forget SCHAFER all we could hope for is that you quit how many years are you here way to act X-CHIEF.

[Unregistered678]

All audet does is lie....... its funny how the board always speaks at dept meetings but as soon as the dept wants to know why there isn't a special election for 30.... the board decides to stand up and say nothing. way to go BOFC .... leave the position for 30 vacant for 7 months and leave a guy who has only been back in the chiefs room for 5 months in charge......we won't even mention how 31 only comes around during election time and believes he knows everything.......32 just doesn't have the time for the job............. but the board decides to leave these two in charge. As the board would say "we're doing whats best for ourselves and not the dept or community"

[bohemia2000]

31 tells the dept that he is not going to suspend an ex chief for disobeying an order because it happened under the former chief and that too much time had passed (3 weeks). Now he suspends a former capt that is running for re-election on Monday for an incident that happened 4 weeks ago under the same former chief. Am I missing something here?? Somebody please tell me what I am missing? Could the supsension be to keep him from being eligible for the election on Monday? Does 31 think we are that stupid or is he just too arrogant? Maybe both!

[bohemia2000]

15 days suspension for under age drinking for probies during a fire dept. function. I guess there are priveleges for having family members in the chiefs office and board of fire commissioners.

What's the suspension going to be for driving apparatus while drinking....20 days?

.

[Unregistered678]

Guess the commissioners and the chiefs never heard of the "social" law for underage drinking....... 15 days for not only breaking dept rules but also state law????????????????? Chiefs state that they had to "look" into the kids drinking, meanwhile 32 caught them drinking, told them to quiet down and let them continue drinking........... even more of a reason to put a 30 in there that knows what they are doing.............. 31 suspending a member almost 4 weeks later what a joke.........

[bohemia2000]

As long as we have dedicated members who still get out for 3am AA's we'll get back to where we want to be. It will take time. It will be embarrasing for the dept though when we have that next 3am AA that actually turns out to be a 13-35 and the Chiefs are home sleeping as usual. Unfortunately the entire dept. will pay the price for the type of attention that would bring.

Volunteer depts should be transparent. Bring back posting the Chiefs points...

[Unregistered 55555]

How do you not post cheifs points? What are they trying to hide?? I thought the Chiefs were supposed to be among the most dedicated members?

[lolhemia]

Stone Cold Said So!

[Unregistered98]

throw out 31 and 32.........the board should intervene they are ruining the dept............. have a special election for all chiefs

[Unregistered892]

Why do you think were in this mess:

Fagan
Audett
grace
wilamy
behonek
strauss
schafer

[Unregistered31230]

Guess the commissioners and the chiefs never heard of the "social" law for underage drinking....... 15 days for not only breaking dept rules but also state law????????????????? Chiefs state that they had to "look" into the kids drinking, meanwhile 32 caught them drinking, told them to quiet down and let them continue drinking........... even more of a reason to put a 30 in there that knows what they are doing.............. 31 suspending a member almost 4 weeks later what a joke.........

Those members put the dept in harms way...........That is a huge liability. Shame on 32 for not correcting the problem when he was faced with it. Ecspecially his own kids. Then his drunk father goes after another member and nothing happens to him because he is a commissioner and he apologized a week later.... Wake up and take care of the problems as they happen. And someone please get 32 a GPS. How long has he lived in Bohemia and how big is it

[scratchy]

give 32 a break on his sense of direction. He only responds to about 15 alarms a month so there are still a lot of streets he hasn't been down yet.

[unregistered0000]

Get your facts straight and stop pointing the finger...

P.S. - Major errors in spelling and grammar...
5th grade education required.

[Unregistered98]

all facts are straight..........

[Unregisteredwrong]

give 32 a break on his sense of direction. He only responds to about 15 alarms a month so there are still a lot of streets he hasn't been down yet.

32 responds a lot more then that...maybe if you actually got on a truck and didnt sneak by and sign the sheet you would know

[Itchy]

That response must be written by one of the elite commishners who hides in their office when the alarm goes off and comes out after the 25!!!!

[Unregistered31230]

If 32 was brian derrik and not a commissioners son, his car would have been taken away, just like derriks was. he def responded to more alarms than the current 32. doesn't everyone like how 31 aka mr. october is active for 3 weeks then disappears after the election and reappears for memorial day. Both chiefs knew the kids were drinking and should also be disciplined. Suspending members 3 -4 weeks after the incident is ridiculous. Put a chief in there that knows what they are doing and replace both 31 + 32. 31 went around saying were in a state of emergency, but can wait over a month to put out special elections for line officers. some emergency. The only state of emergency we are in, is when 31 took over and his head got even bigger than it is..

[Unregistered00000]

What we need is for people to stop questioning authority and to start following it. This fire dept has been run for 115 years the same old way, and it’s going to be run another 115 years with or without you. If you don’t like it, GET OUT! No one recruited you.

[Unregistered0123]

OK Bob Strauss

[99999999999]

What we need is for people to stop questioning authority and to start following it. This fire dept has been run for 115 years the same old way, and it’s going to be run another 115 years with or without you. If you don’t like it, GET OUT! No one recruited you.

You mean the authotity as in the chiefs/commishiners that dont go to alarms/drills and grant class A status to their X-chief buddies just because they can. or the chief that has almost been tossed out of the department because he was low on points twice in the last 10 years (31). the same authority that can't get the new radio system up and running. shall I keep going.

[Unregistered98]

lets see... 31 suspends members for underage drinking a day after its posted on here now he comes out to an alarm after 11, (WHICH HE USUALLY HASN'T IN THE PAST) a day after its posted on here,,, who is he trying to kid acting like he is super active

[Unregistered20006]

This website is full of crap. Most people go on a blog to try and discuss certain situations and resolve them, all you guys are doing is prolonging the bad times.

- This is neither an ex-chief or commissioner nor present chief, this is a member who is pissed off and embarrassed to be in the same fire dept as the people making this crap up.

[Unregistered0123]

ok wanna be exchief kopf....... if you dont want to read it don;t

[Unregistered20006]

Nope not him.

[Unregistered220]

This website is full of crap. Most people go on a blog to try and discuss certain situations and resolve them, all you guys are doing is prolonging the bad times.

- This is neither an ex-chief or commissioner nor present chief, this is a member who is pissed off and embarrassed to be in the same fire dept as the people making this crap up.

you want the bad times to stop. 31 & 32 resign now and have elections for all 3 chief spots immeadiately.

[read the bylaws]

you want the bad times to stop. 31 & 32 resign now and have elections for all 3 chief spots immeadiately.


yo, have you ever read the bylaws???? If you hold election for the chiefs LOOK AT WHOSE ELIGIBLE. 30 is all exchiefs, 31, 32, and Tommy, 31 is the SAME THING right now. and 32 the only new names are dick rich and don....so what...you gonna throw the two of them out and get stuck probably with the same batch of people. good thinking moron. come down and get on a truck and dont just sign the sheet.

[Unregistered989898]

And put you in?! The bad times will stop when people like you learn some respect. Remember we had a 31 before he got suspended.

[read the bylaws]

And put you in?! The bad times will stop when people like you learn some respect. Remember we had a 31 before he got suspended.

listen..i am basically as far away from the exchiefs as you can possibly be, what are we gonna do, throw them all out? We need to look at the crop of people availible for 30 and say thats the one we want. And all members should be able to pick him out without any trouble...and if you cant, you haven't been coming around

[Unregistered989898]

Yes I agree I was disagreeing with post #40

[Unregistered989898]

We all know who wants to go in as a possible 31 right now, don’t forget he was suspended once and never apologized he'll do it again. We need to be making strides forward right now, not strides backward. Our chiefs are not the problem, nor the commissioners. The problem is that guys don’t understand when they’re not in charge one must follow orders.

-Written by a member

[Unregistered1616]

31 that got suspended will do what again???nn bust his ass and work for the dept and the members like he did in the past.n When he was a chief, at least there was always a chief at a general alarm in the middle of the night.n And might I add, very rare did the other 2 chiefs come out in the middle of the night.n You can't say that guy didnt work his ass off for this dept from the time he took office as lt all the way up.n So what, he messed up (and it was not as big as the commissioners made it to be).n he served his time and the dept elected him again.n Sounds like the dept moved on and a select few in the back room didnt'.nnn at least we know he knows how to do the job.n No one bitched about the job he did as chief nor did the commissioners.n You're going to tell me that the current 32 that knowingly allowed to let underage drinking occur, didn't put this dept at a huge risk or when bob strauss was chief "mooned" people outside the bus window on the way home from a function.n The guy did his time, has respect of most of this dept and has nothing to do with this issue of what is going on.n Might I add, he also beat the current 31 by a huge margin.n I think that tells us who the membership wants

[Unregistered45]

We also had a 31 before wilson resigned because he couldnt work with gerry

[Unregistered??]

We also had a 31 before wilson resigned because he couldnt work with gerry

are you a moron?

[Unregistered999999]

Yeah it wasn't a big deal?! The fire dept was disgraced, newsday ripped us a new asshole and it wasn't a big deal? This is who the members want in supposedly?!

[Unregistered??]

Yeah it wasn't a big deal?! The fire dept was disgraced, newsday ripped us a new asshole and it wasn't a big deal? This is who the members want in supposedly?!

when did newsday ripped us a new asshole? Do you know exactly what went on? He carried an election with 40 votes out of 76 people who voted. Last time i checked that 40 is more then half of 76.

[Unregistered000000]

Where was it in newsday? And yes the members support him and I bet would still support him. however that is not the issue here. The issue here is that the board needs to put out a special election for the spot of 30. I think we all know what member would be elected. He could at least show 31 +32 the right way of doing things.

MEMBER and EX-CHIEF

[Unregistereda1a]

Where was it in newsday? And yes the members support him and I bet would still support him. however that is not the issue here. The issue here is that the board needs to put out a special election for the spot of 30. I think we all know what member would be elected. He could at least show 31 +32 the right way of doing things.

MEMBER and EX-CHIEF

well theres only one ex chief who would post something like that...

[Unregistered112369852]

Who?

[Unregistered1616]

Fagan, Audet, Bones, Grace, and Wilemly ...oh wait, hes not an exchief..someone has to tell him that ......lol

[Unregistered1]

I agree there should be a 30, but 31 and 32 should remain. There is no just reason why 31 and 32 should be removed. Don't forget 31 won by one vote maybe so, but that one vote makes the difference, he had the member’s support (It doesn’t take a blow out). The previous 30's haven't showed any desire at all, so now that our current 31 and chief shows some passion and discipline, all of a sudden some members can't handle it? Ever think we've forgotten how a fire dept should be run?

[Unregistered1]

I agree there should be a 30, but 31 and 32 should remain. There is no just reason why 31 and 32 should be removed. Don't forget 31 won by one vote maybe so, but that one vote makes the difference, he had the member’s support (It doesn’t take a blow out). The previous 30's haven't showed any desire at all, so now that our current 31 and chief shows some passion and discipline, all of a sudden some members can't handle it? Ever think we've forgotten how a fire dept should be run?

nice try joey.

[Unregistered1]

Once again wrong. You really have no idea that alot of members are not happy with the way things are turning out right now.

[Unregisteredhmm]

shouldn't you guys be our running to ems alarms and not transporting? WASTE OF TAXPAYERS MONEY

[Unregistered4444]

Well that was a waste of a few types and an enter.

[HOUSTON909]

This is in respone to the ones that are bitching and complaining about what is wrong with the Bohemia FD, Chiefs, and the Commissioners. If you are so freaking smart and know what is best for the department why don't you run for 30,31, or 32, or run to become a commissioner. If not why don't you shout the hell up because you are all talk and no action. You and bitch and complain what is wrong and do nothing about it. You are blowing enough hot air that you fill up the GoodYear blimp and and they are going to boats so they wont have to step in the BS that you are shoveling.

[Unregistered989898]

I couldn't agree more.

[Unregistered0606]

NO bs here. All is true. The members elected a member to serve a position and a group of a select few thought they knew better. What happen to democracy in this dept. Now you have 31 supposidly going to the board and telling the board that he doesn't want to fill the 30 spot. More than the majority of this dept wants a 30 in there and 3 chiefs. Again what happened to the democracy in this dept? Mr. october is doing what is best for him and now what is best for this dept or what this dept wants. Shame on the commisoners for going along with it

exchief

[Unregistered989898]

We will never move on with people who feel the way you do. Time to end it now. If your an ex-chief you've served your time in office, now it's time for new people to rise up. I'm willing to give 31 a shot.

Member

[Unregistered31230]

We will never move on with people who feel the way you do. Time to end it now. If your an ex-chief you've served your time in office, now it's time for new people to rise up. I'm willing to give 31 a shot.

Member

You are really messed up in the head then.... Must be one of his relatives

[Unregistered1996]

We will never move on with people who feel the way you do. Time to end it now. If your an ex-chief you've served your time in office, now it's time for new people to rise up. I'm willing to give 31 a shot.

Member

so am I lets support our cheifs and move in the right direction.

cb

[Unregistered1996]

You are really messed up in the head then.... Must be one of his relatives

sorry tommy not me, but i do support that quote

not affraid to let people know how i feel!!!!!



cb

[Unregistered989898]

This is the situation at hand let's make the best of it. We don't need new people sprouting up claiming they’re the answer, we have the answer with the chiefs we have now, let's support them.

Member

[Unregistered31230]

sorry, not tommy....nice try....do you realize that the chiefs have very little support in what they are doing.... going after people personally after 4 weeks because he doesn't like them. Put real leaders in there that would actually have the respect of the dept.

[Unregisteredstandup]

if you guys have such a big problem with whats going on...stand up at the meeting? or are you guys just hiding behind this board? don't worry, you guys can hang your balls in the ready room.

MEMBER

[Unregistered97]

Don't you know, you are takin into the chiefs room after you stand up at the dept meeting? Just ask Cardillo.. Or if you say something the board doesn't like, the board makes up names for you, ask audet, a commissioner that calls a member names because he doesnt agree with what is said

[Unregistered12]

Thats because people use guys like cardillo to air out their dirty laundry, it's not right.

[Unregistered12]

If someone had something to say last meeting was it, but everyone was quiet. I'm tired of the rumors and everything else that is going on, but there's always someone willing to keep the ball rolling.

[Unregistereduse him?]

Thats because people use guys like cardillo to air out their dirty laundry, it's not right.

he isn't a puppet like gerry was, no ones makin him dance. hes got more balls the celtics locker room.

[Unregistered989898]

he isn't a puppet like gerry was, no ones makin him dance. hes got more balls the celtics locker room.

He is a puppet, the guy has been in this dept for two years, and seems to have this whole situation figured out. You get someone who doesn't have the balls to stand up at a dept meeting, what better way than to prime a young member for a fall. It's just not right.

Member

[Unregistered00]

I don't think Cardillo is wrong in what he said at all. You're going to tell me when he stood up at the dept meeting and asked why the chiefs havent been around and active, he wasn't right? He is a 40 something year old man that thinks and acts on his own. Even members that are with us only a few years see how messed up it its.

[Unregistered17]

I'll be honest with you, I don't care that the chiefs weren't around for a few night time alarms. They can't make them all, they make what they can, and that’s all we -the members - expect of them. I felt that at that time, it was not an important issue. For the time I've been in this dept we all know that young member's are seen and not heard, especially standing up at a dept meeting and voicing their opinion. Whether they’re in their 40’s or not a two year member should have nothing to say. This relates to my last post (priming the younger member’s to do the dirty work).

[Unregistered000000]

If younger members don't voice their opinion, know one will know what direction this dept wants to go. We are in this postion because of people like strauss voicing their opinion and its his view only. And he is not the voice of what the members want

[Unregistered33333]

It's not strauss's view that only matters, what position is he in; nothing he's just like us. He has every right to voice his own opinion, he's been here a long time, but you shouldn't take what he has to say to heart..I don't. I have a tramendous respect for strauss, it doesn't mean though that I'm going to make the rest of the members' lives shitty because i feel that way. The two people as of right now that we only should listen to are our chiefs, but the thing is some guys can't seem to do that which is why we're in this rut we're in.

[Unregistered000000]

Who hasnt' listend to the chief? His sons and other probies when they were drinking and told to keep it down, but the chief let them continue to drink and break dept rules and state law? But since his sons and probies continued to drink they got busted. So please tell me what members havent listened to the chiefs.

[Unregistered?]

Who hasnt' listend to the chief? His sons and other probies when they were drinking and told to keep it down, but the chief let them continue to drink and break dept rules and state law? But since his sons and probies continued to drink they got busted. So please tell me what members havent listened to the chiefs.

you know what the difference between suffolk county social host law and nassua county social host law is. One word, Suffolk ads knowingly. And if the chiefs didn't know then they didn't know. Your gonna take what you hear from every other member in the department. There are only like 2 or 3 guys other then the younger guys who were drinking? why don't ask any of them?

[Unregistered121212]

Once again the fact's regarding the young kids drinking are wrong. You need to stop listening from other members and start finding for yourself from the people that were there, you weren't. It's awkward how this whole blog is stemming from that one incident, and most of the allegations are wrong.

[suicidesquad]

You need them now!

[Its Me 2008]

Can we make time go faster? December is to far away. At that point we can get ride of the chiefs we don't like or want and elect new ones in, As long as the commissioners agree. We had a good 31, he just made a few bad choices that the board over looked for a couple of years and all of a sudden they don't want to deal with it anymore. Shames on them for letting it go on for so long. Lets get a 33 back in office so that maybe in the future we will have a chief that has time to make sure he knows everything he needs to know. I personally blame some of the EX chiefs for letting this department get this way because they did not show the baby chiefs coming up behind them the right way. They still want full control of the department. As someone said early on, you guys did a great job years ago when you were chief but its time to let go and help the newer members become what you once were.

[Unregisteredyesir]

The past two ex 30's are mostly to be held accountable.

[Unregisteredyesir]

As for our present chiefs, they should be left alone to try and correct the problems that have piled up the past few years. I agree that our old 31 was a great chief, but he really messed up and showed no signes of sympathy. I don't know if I agree with bringing the 33 back, but as for now, we - the members - just need to back our chiefs.

Member

[Unregistered888555]

Is The BFD really this screwed up? How far is there to go for some positive change? I feel most of the problems that are going on are orchestrated from the commissioners office. Although Joe and Jeff are no balls of fire, the membership did elect them to there positions so its only fair to give them this term to start this ship in the right direction. But the membership is to blame also. Regardless of the situation, this dept. is ripe for a new group to take control. And its not going to happen by not showing up for alarms and training. After all isn't that why most of us join? To be firemen? Morale needs to be built, so why not do it in spite of the chiefs!

As for the commissioners...they need to live up to the responsibility the have to the public. Put a new 30 in office. As a newer member mentioned to me, The taxpayers of the district deserve a full slate of first responders. By having one less chief respond, 1/3 of the people who are normally on scene first, be it fire or EMS, are not there. We have departments that are applauded by Newsday for the inovation of getting a CPR qualified individuals to the scene with Defibrillators and we are cutting our contingent? Stop worrying about who is going to be the new 30 and do what is right for the district. That would obviously help the department also, what a novel idea. Time for the commissioners to come out of the closet and do what is right, don't be scared of the future. I'll be when they were young and up and coming members they had some senior members show them the way, time to do the same.

[Its me 2008]

Have no fear the same 8-12 guys will always come down and do what needs to be done no matter who the 30,31 or 32 is. They care about the people of Bohemia not the B.S. of the department. Incase something big comes in we always can count on the Hero's to come out as well.

[Its Me 2008]

You need them now!

This is part of the Problem here. The suicidesquad is dead. This is 2008 not 1980 something. I believe that is when the squad died.

[Unregistered989898]

The current chiefs will pull us out of these bad times and make it right; it's only a matter of time. I agree there should be a 30, but regardless of what happens we should back our chiefs and give them all the support they need. I believe the biggest problems we face are the few guys from the membership who just simply can't take orders, or just have something to say about everything.

Member

[theywereproud]

This is part of the Problem here. The suicidesquad is dead. This is 2008 not 1980 something. I believe that is when the squad died.

Can you say that? Still got a ladder hanging in your back building, put it up and try it some time.

[Its Me 2008]

Can you say that? Still got a ladder hanging in your back building, put it up and try it some time.

I'm not saying there not proud. Its just ashame we live in the past and not now. I didn't sell the race truck, nor probably did you. I'm just saying this is 2008 and we need to do now, not then. I would be proud and defiantly be able to do the same with a ladder that they did, but we will never have that chance. I’m also sure there are others that could raise a ladder and lift buckets and connect a hose. I guess you are trying to say that you were better than use when you were young. This is part of the issue you believe that you are better than all of the members that came in after you. Let go of the past. You and I could die today and guess what Bohemia F.D. will survive.

[Unregistered0000000000000]

Ex-Chief Kopf ressigned from the department? What a shame he would be better than the other ass running for that position.

[Unregistered7878]

19's for softball, but no 19s for dept trainings, inspections, ect. HILLARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Unregistered989898]

Once again someone has something to say about everything. Would you have been there anyway? Doubt it.

[Unregistered1]

19's for softball, but no 19s for dept trainings, inspections, ect. HILLARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't belive they do training in that Department. They are to good for it.

[Unregistered7878]

Something to say about everything? Where are the priorites? We can do 19s 2 days ahead of time for softball, but we can't do 19's for dept inspections? which do you think is a little more important? And by the way, I was there

[Unregistered989898]

When you become a member of this dept, inspections are understood - meaning don't play dumb if you missed them and say there were no 19's- I knew they were today. So if it's not one thing it's another, it will never end with the same people starting this shit up to keep the ball rolling.

[Unregistered7878]

blah, blah, blah, because people don't have other things going on in their lives and need reminders... learn what you are talking about rookie

[Unregistered??]

blah, blah, blah, because people don't have other things going on in their lives and need reminders... learn what you are talking about rookie

we can definately tell your alzheimers kicked in. except for the last two months.....It's been the 3rd sunday for as long as I been in, which is the 90's.

[Unregistered989898]

blah, blah, blah, because people don't have other things going on in their lives and need reminders... learn what you are talking about rookie

Yes other people do have other things going on in their lives just like 31 and 32. So when they're home sleeping knowing they have to get up early in the morning for a long day, and miss a very minimal amount of 3am AA's as you call them, they get an earful from the shit stirrers? blah blah blah, keep the ball rolling.

[Unregistered7878]

a minimal amount? You need to start getting up and seeing how many they miss

[Unregistered989898]

Just in the past week I've counted about six ems and one mva, all the others for the past..oh...five months we got nothing, those seven total are extremely rare. So those "3am AA's" that amount to about 3 in a 5month period, that what you talkin about? You need to move on with your life, you guys just keep bouncing from one topic to the next every time one of your arguments gets the shit kicked out of it, you try and find something else that's not worth the time nor thought.

[Unregistered1]

Just in the past week I've counted about six ems and one mva, all the others for the past..oh...five months we got nothing, those seven total are extremely rare. So those "3am AA's" that amount to about 3 in a 5month period, that what you talkin about? You need to move on with your life, you guys just keep bouncing from one topic to the next every time one of your arguments gets the shit kicked out of it, you try and find something else that's not worth the time nor thought.

I'm Glad I am not related to you and the family of 31. Open your eyes look past the last couple of months. You are correct it has been quit for the 3 am runs, but you can't tell me the chiefs have been active. The person that put the 3 AM runs was also being nice, lets see how long we see the chiefs past 10 PM. P.S. I’m sure most of the members need to go to work in the AM so I guess they should all stop waking-up after 10PM. Do you really believe all the B.S. you are trying to defend?

[Unregistered999888]

Yes other people do have other things going on in their lives just like 31 and 32. So when they're home sleeping knowing they have to get up early in the morning for a long day, and miss a very minimal amount of 3am AA's as you call them, they get an earful from the shit stirrers? blah blah blah, keep the ball rolling.

The difference is that they ran for the position. These guys should be expected to do alot more than the average Joe. They are no longer volunteers in my eyes.

[Unregistered1]

The difference is that they ran for the position. These guys should be expected to do alot more than the average Joe. They are no longer volunteers in my eyes.

You are correct, Most other local departments have the points posted of there chiefs and officers and there % rate is higher then the regular FF. In other words they are excpeted to have more than others. Leadership by exaple, If you don't have the time, don't be an officer or a chief. No one will look any different at you.

[Unregistered01]

Ex-Chief Kopf ressigned from the department? What a shame he would be better than the other ass running for that position.

Did he really qiut.

[nopethinkaboutit]

I'm not saying there not proud. Its just ashame we live in the past and not now. I didn't sell the race truck, nor probably did you. I'm just saying this is 2008 and we need to do now, not then. I would be proud and defiantly be able to do the same with a ladder that they did, but we will never have that chance. I’m also sure there are others that could raise a ladder and lift buckets and connect a hose. I guess you are trying to say that you were better than use when you were young. This is part of the issue you believe that you are better than all of the members that came in after you. Let go of the past. You and I could die today and guess what Bohemia F.D. will survive.

Learn from the past don't repeat it make the future your own. You would probably be a million times better than me or us as a group in the eighties at the time. Don't need a truck, ground events work fine Copaigue did it for years in motorized competitions and actually got on the track one day and looked at each other and said "what do we do now"? Came down in a pickup borrowed from one of the spectators. Chiefs and commissioners come and go.
Pride my boy, pride....

[Unregistered1]

Learn from the past don't repeat it make the future your own. You would probably be a million times better than me or us as a group in the eighties at the time. Don't need a truck, ground events work fine Copaigue did it for years in motorized competitions and actually got on the track one day and looked at each other and said "what do we do now"? Came down in a pickup borrowed from one of the spectators. Chiefs and commissioners come and go.
Pride my boy, pride....

I have tons of pride. Its just hard to keep your chin up with all the B.S. around this place.

[Unregistered989898]

I'm Glad I am not related to you and the family of 31. Open your eyes look past the last couple of months. You are correct it has been quit for the 3 am runs, but you can't tell me the chiefs have been active. The person that put the 3 AM runs was also being nice, lets see how long we see the chiefs past 10 PM. P.S. I’m sure most of the members need to go to work in the AM so I guess they should all stop waking-up after 10PM. Do you really believe all the B.S. you are trying to defend?

Yes I do. It's far from bs. I stay behind my arguments unlike 95% of you people who just hop from topic to topic, once you get shit canned.

[Unregistered 33]

Bohemia Fire Dept Wins softball game against Lakeland FD 30-0 with a 1 hit shutout. Great game by all.

Scott Thompson

[Unregistered989898]

Hell yeah great job boys.

[Unregistered23]

The difference is that they ran for the position. These guys should be expected to do alot more than the average Joe. They are no longer volunteers in my eyes.

No, they're still volunteers.

[000111222]

Yes I do. It's far from bs. I stay behind my arguments unlike 95% of you people who just hop from topic to topic, once you get shit canned.

Way to stay on Topic Eddy. Nothing is thicker than BLOOD.

[Unregistered032]

Not eddy.

[Unregistered2347]

I'm Glad I am not related to you and the family of 31. Open your eyes look past the last couple of months. You are correct it has been quit for the 3 am runs, but you can't tell me the chiefs have been active. The person that put the 3 AM runs was also being nice, lets see how long we see the chiefs past 10 PM. P.S. I’m sure most of the members need to go to work in the AM so I guess they should all stop waking-up after 10PM. Do you really believe all the B.S. you are trying to defend?

Most of the men have families in this dept. Our number one priority is to provide for our families, and if someone can't make all of those "3 am AA's" well; family comes first. As a member of this dept who hasn't been around for a long time, but knows which priorities come first; I will stand by that forever. Support the chiefs.

Member

[Unregistered 33]

Everyone attending tonight’s Engine 2 meeting or Wednesday’s H&L meeting please be aware that it could be a long one according to what’s been posted on this board. Some unregistered people have a lot to say. Meeting registration starts at 6:45 pm. Make sure you bring an extra seat cushion and stay hydrated it could get heated. And don’t be afraid to say what’s on your mind. And if all else fails we can turn the lights off and disguise the voice of any “unregistered member” who needs it.

Scott

[houston 909]

If you would just look at the calenders that are sent out can you see and find out what is going on in the dept

[wompwaaa]

If you would just look at the calenders that are sent out can you see and find out what is going on in the dept

do you turn you pager on? I bet you at least 10 guys went down last thursday and said OH the drills canceled?

[Unregistered 72]

Scotts comments are the best of all for one reason. He put his name on it. Thats the problem with sites like this. You can write anything you like and there is no accountability. If you have a problem with how things are run, than speak up (publicly) and take an active roll. I will never again waste my time in looking at this site again.

And by the way, nice job to all to went to this weekend's mva's. There might not have been much we could do but we showed up when called and we did our job. That's why we are here.

Sterling

[Unregistered567]

Scotts comments are the best of all for one reason. He put his name on it. Thats the problem with sites like this. You can write anything you like and there is no accountability. If you have a problem with how things are run, than speak up (publicly) and take an active roll. I will never again waste my time in looking at this site again.

And by the way, nice job to all to went to this weekend's mva's. There might not have been much we could do but we showed up when called and we did our job. That's why we are here.

Sterling

Sorry about the suspension, the facts on this sight are very wrong but I'll take it like a man. Great job on the mva. Once again sorry for what happened.

Dan B.

[Unregisteredso?]

whose the new officers in exchief company 2?

[Unregisteredaasdf]

same clown brigade...dont worry they'll resign soon enough

[Houston909]

If you think that the officers of Engine 2 are the clown brigade, Why didn't you run to become an officer of Engine 2 so you can share and give your perfect wisdom of what is wrong?????????????????????????

[Unregisteredbb]

If you think that the officers of Engine 2 are the clown brigade, Why didn't you run to become an officer of Engine 2 so you can share and give your perfect wisdom of what is wrong?????????????????????????

wrong company, why didnt you?

[Unregisteredhaha]

This site is still going? Wow enough already.

Dan B.

[Unregistered6789456]

Now that theres 6 line officers again. Why not fill the chiefs spot........

[Unregistered123]

Nice to see we took another 10 steps backwards last night with the new H & L capt. what the heck happened there guys.

[Unregistered555555]

First of all, I would like to congratulate all the new officers of H & L and Engine Co. I have faith that you will lead us into a positive direction. In addition, let's also support our cheifs.....they have a challenging road ahead of them.

To unregistered 123.........it take a lot of guts bash a newly elected captain without leaving your name. To our members.....do not even bother responding to this jerk off. By responding you will probably make his vagina moist.

Joe A. 84

[houston 909]

wrong company, why didnt you?
excuse me mister observent and tell me that posting #121 dosen't say engine 2 officers

[Not One of the Boys]

Take it from someone who is not on the good list. You can do everything you possibly can for the department and still get kicked in the can. Just because you are not one of he department ALL STAR they walk all over you.

[Unregistered000000]

You have to be favorite, or if youre not ..........you are a piece of garbage and don't know anything...... just look at what happened with one of their newer members...... and ex chief, also a commissioner, who happened to be drunk at the time (amazing), verbally attacks a member and his family........ now that member resigns,,,,,, maybe the exchief should resign

[Unregistered0001]

I couldn't agree more that the commish/x-chief should be thrown out if the dept for his behavior. and how could 31 let an active member resign from the dept based on the actions of a commishiner. remember this when it comes election time.

[Unregistered1]

throw him out? why..?

remember there was a chief who got arrested (felony) , and nothing was done.

remember there was a chief who couldnt keep his hands to himself at a dinner, was arrested, and he wasnt thrown out.

remember there was a fireman who made remarks to a female member of the ambulance co. that were explicit, and nothing was done.

[Unregisteredohhhyeah!]

remember there was a chief who couldnt keep his hands to himself at a dinner, was arrested, and he wasnt thrown out.


OH I FORGOT! you were one of the people there with him you should know what happened!

there were 2 firemen that left just minutes before this happened? why weren't they asked what happened? what they saw?

and you were there on the other 2 occasions? wow you are everywhere! why don't you get your head out of your own ass and actually ride the rig? or will General Joe let you get by cause we know hes telling people to Knock this person down so he don't run come december

[Unregistered12]

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[Unregistered12]

In Genesis 4, Adam and Eve’s two sons bring their offerings to God. God accepts Abel’s and rejects Cain’s. In his anger, Cain strikes and kills his brother. God discovers Cain’s violence and banishes him for life while also protecting him with some sort of divine mark. Doesn’t this show that even God does not favor executing murderers?

One way to explain Cain’s survival is that the law against murder wasn’t given by God for another 1,600 years after Noah’s flood. Even the Old Testament wasn’t written by Moses for another 900 years after that. But this response fails since there is the punishment of banishing. If it wasn’t a crime because the law hadn’t been given yet, there would have been no punishment at all. Also, Cain clearly expected to be punished by God and men. Thus, his severe but non-capital banishment demands explanation, and the only biblically plausible answer is that this wasn’t murder.

Nothing in the text indicates that Cain intended Abel’s death. Not only are there hundreds of ways to strike a man and kill him unintentionally, but it’s even possible, as the first homicide in history, that Cain didn’t even understand the consequences of his assault. Furthermore, even if Cain did intend to kill Abel in a moment of rage, it’s not clear this would legally qualify as pre-meditated. God’s penal system distinguishes negligent homicide from murder. Thus, one might say we know it wasn’t murder precisely because God merely banished him.

Religious Objection: What about King David?
In 2 Samuel 11, King David sees Bathsheba bathing on a rooftop near the palace, commands her to be brought to him, commits adultery with her, discovers she is pregnant, fails to trick her husband into sleeping with her to cover the pregnancy, and then has him killed through a complex military conspiracy. How does God respond? He sends Nathan the prophet to chastise David, who repents for his crimes and goes on living, but God condemns the bastard child to death.

If God is for capital punishment, why doesn’t David get executed? Both adultery and murder were capital crimes in Israel, and this must have been the worst-kept secret in the Mediterranean. There were even witnesses for every part of the conspiracy (a necessary component of Old Testament capital law). So why the leniency?

I believe it’s because David was King of Israel, anointed by God Himself through the prophet Samuel. Though this will sound strange to our ears which have been trained by the concepts of law as king, the rule of law, and equality before the law, David was above the law. No matter what the anointed of God does, he is still holy because of the anointing and cannot be touched. David demonstrated this by refusing to kill King Saul, who deserved it many times over. Moreover, when David learns that an aide assisted Saul’s suicide in battle, David immediately executes him for touching God’s anointed.

So David was spared a doubly-deserved death only because he was king. Nevertheless, a life penalty was still taken: the child. Thus, the Bible gives one precedent to explain why David wasn’t killed and also a reason to think that the murder still required the compensatory death of a human. It’s certainly a difficult passage, but it’s also certainly not a clear repudiation of the death penalty.

Religious Objection: What about the woman caught in adultery?
In John 8:1-11, the Pharisees bring Jesus a woman caught in the act of adultery to see if He will authorize her execution. After He famously says, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her,” they all depart. Jesus proceeds to send the woman on her way, saying, “Neither do I condemn you; go your way; from now on sin no more.” Of all passages in the Bible, this one most clearly shows that Jesus opposed capital punishment, right?

[Unregistered12]

First, we should note that this passage is textually dubious. The best manuscripts don’t include it, and both its placement and style controvert its authenticity. Even so, the Christian community has long considered this an iconic story of Jesus’ mercy. So, to merely throw it out would be inappropriate. Besides, it may well be a legitimate story, just not one included in the John manuscript. Hence, an interpretation would be more helpful than a dismissal.

The trouble is that most people wildly misunderstand this story. The Pharisees’ only reason for bringing this woman to Jesus was to put Him in a dilemma. On the one hand, Jesus couldn’t call for her execution since Roman law prohibited anyone other than a Roman court from doing this. The Pharisees proved they knew this when they later brought Jesus to Pilate rather than killing Him themselves. On the other hand, He couldn’t oppose her execution because this would have proven He was a false prophet for contradicting God’s Law. The passage even explains this in verse 6, “… they were saying this, testing Him, in order that they might have grounds for accusing Him.”

So, the Pharisees wanted to make Jesus a heretic for opposing capital punishment, but He evaded their trap. The tremendous irony is that now, 2,000 years later, people who claim to love Jesus teach that He was precisely the heretic His enemies wanted to paint Him as. If Jesus was in fact repudiating capital punishment in this story, then He was neither the divine Son of God nor a true prophet. As I’m apparently more reluctant than others to embrace this conclusion, I can’t interpret Jesus as rejecting the Old Testament here. Had He been, His enemies would have left jubilant rather than ashamed. There are many theories on the meaning of this story, but the one thing we must not do is use it to say Jesus overturned God’s Word as His enemies intended.

What we see with the above examples is that even the difficult Bible passages don’t undermine the validity of capital punishment.

Conclusion
The religious and the secular arguments agree: capital punishment is purposeful, rational and pleasing to God. If you have read all eleven of these columns, I thank you for your persistence and your patience and trust they have been useful.

[Unregistered12]

The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous."

-Psalm 19:7-9



"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever."

-Psalm 23



"The LORD reigns forever; He has established his throne for judgment. He will judge the world in righteousness; He will govern the peoples with justice. The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you."

-Pslam 9:7-10



"God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?""

-Hebrews 13:5-6



"The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe."

-Proverbs 18:10



"LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken."

-Psalm 16:5-8



"Test me, O LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind; for your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth."

-Psalm 26:2-3



"Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD."

-Psalm 25:4-7



"The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. The LORD is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one. Save your people and bless your inheritance; be their shepherd and carry them forever."

-Psalm 28:7-9



"Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen."

-1 Timothy 1:15-17



"It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great. You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn."

-Psalm 18:32-36



"One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock."

-Psalm 27:4-5



"Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me; O LORD, be my help. You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever."

-Psalm 30:10-12



"Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him."

-Daniel 2:20-22



"Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses. In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time--God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen."

-1 Timothy 6:12-16



"Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace -- the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit."

-Charles H. Brent



"Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man."

-Proverbs 3:3-4



"The LORD is my light and my salvation- whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life- of whom shall I be afraid?"

-Psalm 27:1



"He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful. "

-1 Corinthians 1:8-9



"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."

-Matthew 5:8



"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. "

-Matthew 5:11-12



"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."

-Proverbs 3:5-6



"Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called."

-1 Timothy 6:12



"Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life."

-Proverbs 16:31



"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."

-Proverbs 13:12



"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you?"

-1 Corinthians 3:16



"I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone-- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness."

-1 Timothy 2:1-2



"I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me. I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side."

-Psalm 3:5-6



"This is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance (and for this we labor and strive), that we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe. Command and teach these things. Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."

-1 Timothy 4:9-12



"The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies. The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me. The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears."

-Psalm 18:2-6



"Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed."

-Proverbs 16:3



"The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior! He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me, who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent men you rescued me. Therefore I will praise you among the nations, O LORD; I will sing praises to your name."

-Psalm 18:46-49



"That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil-this is the gift of God."

-Ecclesiastes 3:13



"Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out."

-Proverbs 24:19-20



"For through me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life."

-Proverbs 9:11



"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men--the testimony given in its proper time."

-1 Timothy 2:5-6

[Unregistered12]

Firemen's Prayer




When I am called to duty, God
Wherever flames may rage
Give me strength to save a life
Whatever be its age.


Let me embrace a little child
Before it is too late
Or save an older person from
The horror of that fate.


Enable me to be alert
And hear the weakest shout,
and quickly and efficiently
To put the fire out.


I want to fill my calling
To give the best in me,
To guard my friend and neighbor
And protect their property.


And, if, according to your will,
I have to lose my life,
Please bless, with your protecting hand,
My family and my wife.

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EMT's Prayer

As I perform my duties Lord
Whatever be the call.

Help to guide and keep me safe
From danger big and small.

I want to serve and do my best,
No matter what the scene.

I pledge to keep my skills refined,
My judgment quick and keen.

This calling to give of myself,
Most do not understand.

But I stand ready all the time,
To help my fellow man.

To have the chance to help a child,
Restore his laugh with glee.

A word of thanks I may not hear,
But knowing is enough for me.

The praise of men is fine for some
But I feel truly blessed,
That you, Oh Lord have chosen me
To serve in EMS.

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Gone But Not Forgotten
Brother when you weep for me
Remember that it was meant to be
Lay me down and when you leave
Remember I'll be at your sleeve
In every dark and choking hall
I'll be there as you slowly crawl
On every roof in driving snow
I'll hold your coat and you will know

In cellars hot with searing heat
At windows where a gate you meet
In closets where young children hide
You know I'll be there at your side

The house from which I now respond
Is overstaffed with heroes gone
Those who answered one last bell
Did the job and did it well

As firefighters we understand
That death's a card dealt in our hand
A card we hope we never play
But one we hold there anyway
That card is something we ignore
As we crawl across a weakened floor
For we know that we're the only prayer
For anyone that might be there

So remember as you wipe your tears
The joy I knew throughout the years
As I did the job I loved to do
I pray that thought will see you through.

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The Littlest Firefighter

The 26-year-old mother stared down at her son who was dying of leukemia. Although her heart was filled with sadness, she also had a strong feeling of determination. Like any parent she wanted her son to grow up and fulfill all his dreams. Now that was no longer possible. The leukemia would see to that. But she still wanted her son's dreams to come true.
She took her son's hand and asked, "Billy, did you ever think about what you wanted to be once you grew up? Did you ever dream and wish what you would do with your life?"

"Mommy, I always wanted to be a fireman when I grew up."

Mom smiled back and said, "Let's see if we can make your wish come true."

Later that day she went to her local fire department in Phoenix, Arizona, where she met Fireman Bob, who had a heart as big as Phoenix. She explained her son's final wish and asked if it might be possible to give her six-year-old son a ride around the block on a fire engine.

Fireman Bob said, "Look, we can do better than that. If you'll have your son ready at seven o'clock Wednesday morning, we'll make him an honorary fireman for the whole day. He can come down to the fire station, eat with us, go out on all the fire calls, the whole nine yards! And if you'll give us his sizes, we'll get a real fire uniform for him, with a real fire hat - not a toy one - with the emblem of the Phoenix Fire Department on it, a yellow coat like we wear and rubber boots. They're all manufactured right here in Phoenix, so we can get them fast."

Three days later Fireman Bob picked up Billy, dressed him in his fire uniform and escorted him from his hospital bed to the waiting hook and ladder truck. Billy got to sit on the back of the truck and help steer it back to the fire station. He was in heaven.

There were three fire calls in that section of Phoenix that day and Billy got to go out on all three calls. He rode in the different fire engines, the paramedic's van and even the fire chief's car. He was also video taped for the local news program. Having his dream come true, with all the love and attention that was lavished upon him, so deeply touched Billy that he lived three months longer than any doctor thought possible.

One night his vital signs began to drop dramatically and the head nurse, who believed in the hospice concept that no one should die alone, began to call the family members to the hospital.

Then she remembered the day Billy had spent as a fireman, so she called the fire chief and asked if it would be possible to send a fireman in uniform to the hospital to be with Billy as he made his transition.

The chief replied, "We can do better than that. We'll be there in five minutes. Will you please do me a favor? When you hear the sirens and see the lights flashing, will you announce over the PA system that there is not a fire? It's just the fire department coming to see one of its finest members one more time. And will you open the window to his room? Thanks."

About five minutes later several engines and a hook and ladder truck arrived at the hospital. The truck extended its ladder up to Billy's third floor open window and 16 firefighters climbed up the ladder into Billy's room. With his mother's permission, they hugged him and held him and told him how much they loved him.

With his dying breath, Billy looked up at the fire chief and said, "Chief, am I really a fireman now?"

"Billy, you are," the chief said.

With those words, Billy smiled and closed his eyes one last time.

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For My Child For Dhylan
Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face and laugh when I feel like crying.

Just for this morning, I will let you wake up softly, all rumpled in your sheets and I will hold you until you are ready for the day.

Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear, and smile and say how perfect it is.

Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry, and pick you up and take you to the park to play.

Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.

Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off, and sit with you in the back yard and blow bubbles.

Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble, when you beg and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if it comes by.

Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what you are going to be when you grow up, or second guess every decision I have made where you are concerned.

Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won't stand over you trying to fix them.

Just for this afternoon, I will take you to McDonald's and buy us both a Happy Meal so you can have both toys.

Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a story about how you were born, and how much I love you.

Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry.

Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch and count all the stars.

Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours, and miss my favorite TV show.

Just for this evening, when I run my fingers through your hair as you pray, I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given. I will think about the parents who are searching for their missing children, the parents who are visiting their children's graves instead of their bedrooms, and parents who are in hospital rooms watching their children suffer, and screaming inside that they can't handle it anymore, and when I kiss you goodnight I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer.

It is then that I will thank God for you, and ask him for nothing, except one more day.

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Forgiveness is the process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution[1]. This definition, however, is subject to much philosophical critique. Forgiveness may be considered simply in terms of the person who forgives, in terms of the person forgiven and/or in terms of the relationship between the forgiver and the person forgiven. In some contexts, it may be granted without any expectation of compensation, and without any response on the part of the offender (for example, one may forgive a person who is dead). In practical terms, it may be necessary for the offender to offer some form of acknowledgment, apology, and/or restitution, or even just ask for forgiveness, in order for the wronged person to believe they are able to forgive.[1]

Most world religions include teachings on the nature of forgiveness, and many of these teachings provide an underlying basis for many varying modern day traditions and practices of forgiveness. However, throughout the ages, philosophers have studied forgiveness apart from religion. In addition, as in other areas of human inquiry, science is beginning to question religious concepts of forgiveness. Psychology, sociology and medicine are among the scientific disciplines researching forgiveness or aspects of forgiveness. The Prodigal Son[2] is a well known instance of such teaching and practice of forgiveness. Some religious doctrines or philosophies place greater emphasis on the need for humans to find some sort of divine forgiveness for their own shortcomings, others place greater emphasis on the need for humans to practice forgiveness between one another, yet others make little or no distinction between human and/or divine forgiveness.

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In Buddhism, forgiveness is seen as a practice to prevent harmful thoughts from causing havoc on one’s mental well-being.[3] Buddhism recognizes that feelings of hatred and ill-will leave a lasting effect on our mind karma. Instead, Buddhism encourages the cultivation of thoughts that leave a wholesome effect. "In contemplating the law of karma, we realize that it is not a matter of seeking revenge but of practicing metta and forgiveness, for the victimizer is, truly, the most unfortunate of all.[4] When resentments have already arisen, the Buddhist view is to calmly proceed to release them by going back to their roots. Buddhism centers on release from delusion and suffering through meditation and receiving insight into the nature of reality. Buddhism questions the reality of the passions that make forgiveness necessary as well as the reality of the objects of those passions.[5] "If we haven’t forgiven, we keep creating an identity around our pain, and that is what is reborn. That is what suffers."[6]

Buddhism places much emphasis on the concepts of Mettā (loving kindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (sympathetic joy), and upekkhā (equanimity), as a means to avoiding resentments in the first place. These reflections are used to understand the context of suffering in the world, both our own and the suffering of others. In response to 9/11, Ajahn Jayasaro, a Buddhist monk, reminded his students, "When we give serious consideration to our companionship in birth, old age, sickness, and death with all other beings in the world, it gives us a fresh perspective..."

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The Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Churches teach that God's forgiveness is received through personal repentance in conjunction with the ministry of the Church, that is, the Body of Christ. In these churches, and in some Anglican communities it is customary to make formal confession of sins individually in the presence of a priest, and to obtain absolution as a formal expression by the church of God's forgiveness.

Most Protestant denominations teach that a believer receives forgiveness more directly through a sincere expression of repentance to God, and that the believer completes this in the act of forgiving others. Then confession and prayer by the forgiven is about healing(James 5:16). Protestant denominations generally place more emphasis on the need for private or informal repentance, and less emphasis on the need for formal or public repentance. This is supported by the direction to confess to God, since he is the only one who can forgive sins. However, even Catholics and Orthodox Christians cite scriptural support for a mediated confession through Jesus conferring upon the apostles: "whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained." Hence, the distinction that only God can forgive sins is cited by Catholics and Protestants alike.

It is taught by most denominations that the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus via the crucifixion is the vehicle through which God forgives the believer of his or her sins. The sacrament of communion is regarded as central to the reception of divine forgiveness in some Christian denominations.

Narrative Christian Theology understands forgiveness, not as a rule or spiritual duty, but as a form by which the people of God embody their mission to live as a people who are reconciled to God. Since the Church's very existence is formed by God's forgiveness it operates as a people of forgiveness, forgiven and forgiving, inextricably tied to peacemaking and justice. Philip D. Kenneson, associate professor of theology and philosophy at Milligan College, writes in his book Life On The Vine, "God's intent was not that this one divine act of forgiveness [in Jesus Christ] would itself magically transform the creation into God's intended paradise. Rather, this supreme act of forgiveness in Christ is the very large rock dropped into the middle of a pond. ... [I]f I refuse such forgiveness [for others] in the name of justice, is it possible that my view of justice falls short of God's view, where justice, shalom, wholeness and salvation are not opposing goals, but different names for God's singular desire?"

When Christian forgiveness is discussed, it is primarily within the context of God forgiving man. In his book Balancing the Scales of Justice with Forgiveness and Repentance, ex-lay prison minister Randall J. Cecrle makes the point that both forgiveness and repentance focus on the satisfaction of justice, each one side of the two-sided scales that addresses the human need to have justice satisfied. He writes that the means for humans to forgive other humans is the same means as God’s forgiveness of mankind, the substitutionary death of Jesus. When God through the Apostle Paul said “Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” (Colossians 3:13), he was giving clear instructions on how to forgive. The author goes on to say “Forgive as God forgave you. Forgive in the same way, using the same means and power that God used to forgive you and me. And God forgave you and me how? He forgave by accepting the blood of Jesus (death at the hands of the executioner) as the substitutionary satisfaction of His justice. To forgive those who have caused us harm, have injured us, caused us loss, we are likewise to: Accept Jesus’ Death as the Satisfaction of Justice!”

Key Biblical texts on the subject of forgiveness include (here quoted from the New International Version):

The Lord's Prayer - "Forgive us our [debts], as we forgive our [debtors]" (some versions have sin instead of debts, the Anglican Book of Common Prayer uses trespasses instead of debts)
"Peter came to Jesus and asked, 'Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?' Jesus answered, 'I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times (or seventy times seven).'" (Matthew 18:21-22)
This introduces the parable of the Unmerciful Servant, which concludes: "In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed. This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart." (Matthew 18:34-35)
"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins." (Mark 11:25)
This can be taken to imply that the exercise of forgiveness is part of that repentance through which the believer has access to the forgiveness of God.
"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." Luke 23:34. Uttered by Jesus Christ as he was put to death.
"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." (Ephesians 4:32)
For some of the principal Christian teachings regarding the forgiveness of sins by God, see Atonement.

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Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life. Hope implies a certain amount of despair, wanting, wishing, suffering or perseverance — i.e., believing that a better or positive outcome is possible even when there is some evidence to the contrary. [1]

Beyond the basic definition, usage of the term hope follows some basic patterns which distinguish its usage from related terms:

To wish for something with the expectation of the wish being fulfilled. [2]
Hopefulness is somewhat different from optimism in that hope is an emotional state, whereas optimism is a conclusion reached through a deliberate thought pattern that leads to a positive attitude. But hope and optimism both can be based in unrealistic belief or fantasy.
When used in a religious context, hope carries a connotation of being aware of spiritual truth; see Hope (virtue).
In Catholic theology, hope is one of the three theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity), which are spiritual gifts of God. In contrast to the above, it is not a physical emotion but a spiritual grace.
Hope is distinct from positive thinking, which refers to a therapeutic or systematic process used in psychology for reversing pessimism.
The term false hope refers to a hope based entirely around a fantasy or an extremely unlikely outcome.

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Altruism is selfless concern for the welfare of others. It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and central to many religious traditions. This idea was often described as the Golden rule of ethics. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness.

Altruism can be distinguished from feelings of loyalty and duty. Altruism focuses on a motivation to help others or a want to do good without reward, while duty focuses on a moral obligation towards a specific individual (for example, God, a king), a specific organization (for example, a government), or an abstract concept (for example, patriotism etc). Some individuals may feel both altruism and duty, while others may not. Pure altruism is giving without regard to reward or the benefits of recognition.

The concept has a long history in philosophical and ethical thought, and has more recently become a topic for psychologists (especially evolutionary psychology researchers), sociologists, evolutionary biologists, and ethologists. While ideas about altruism from one field can have an impact on the other fields, the different methods and focuses of these fields lead to different perspectives on altruism. Researches on altruism were sparked in particular after the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964,[1] who was stabbed during half an hour, with passive witnesses withholding themselves from helping her.

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Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude,
it is not self seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes
always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are
prophecies, they will cease; where there
are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will come to pass away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes,
the imperfect disappears.

When I was a child, I talked like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways
behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection;
then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part;
then I shall know fully, even as I am full known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.

NIV... I CORINTHIANS 13: 4-13

Faith

Faith begins by believing
in your heart that what is right
has a chance.

Faith is knowing in your heart
that good can overcome evil,
that the sun can shine
in a rainstorm.

Faith is peaceful
and comforting, because it
comes from within
where no one can invade
your private dreams.

Faith is not something
you can demand or command;
it is a result of commitment to belief.

Faith is believing in something
you can't see or hear,
something deep inside
that only you understand
and control.

Faith is trusting in yourself
enough to know that no matter
how things turn out,
you will make
the best of them.

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Hope is not the closing of your eyes
to the difficulty, the risk,
or the failure.

It is a trust that ...
If I fail now...
I shall not fail forever;
and if I am hurt,
I shall be healed.

It is a trust that
life is good,
love is powerful,
and the future is full of promise.

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"FAITH" IS THE BASIS FOR THE REVEALING OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS IN A CHRISTIAN'S LIFE.
"For in it (in the gospel) the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, 'But the righteous man shall live by faith.'" (Romans 1:17).
"But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ ... whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness ... that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." (Romans 3:21-26).
"For this reason it is by faith, that it might be in accordance with grace, in order that the promise may be certain to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all." (Romans 4:16)
"Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."(Romans 5:1).
"So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." (Romans 10:17).
"The life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God." (Galatians 2:20).
In his Roman letter Paul makes it clear that faith in the gospel is the basis for people to receive the "righteousness of God." The phrase "righteousness of God"seems to include all the grace and favor which God has toward His creation, especially toward His human beings. It includes justification and sanctification bringing about salvation of sinful human beings, reconciling them with their Creator God. The "righteousness of God" is revealed and granted to sinful human beings through their faith.

Since the favor of God indicated by the term "righteousness of God"is so needed by sinful mankind, and since God's favor cannot be earned or merited by sinful man, God in His grace grants it simply upon the condition of man's faith in His Son who made propitiation for sins by shedding His blood. So man's faith is based on a gift from God, the gift of His Son's life. Moreover, faith comes by man's hearing His Son's word. And His Son's word is also a gift from God. Thus faith is based on gifts from God.

Paul quoted the Prophet Habakkuk, "The righteous man shall live by faith." This makes it clear that the faith of which he speaks supports a dynamic life that is lived. Paul states in his Galatian letter that he "lives by faith." Faith, then, should be an integral part of a spiritual Christian life.




"FAITH" ITSELF IS A GIFT OF GOD THAT GROWS DURING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
"But now abide faith, hope, love, these three." (1st Corinthians 13:13).
"Every man ... ought ... to think as to have sound judgement, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith." (Romans 12:3)
"And since we have gifts according to the grace given to us, let us exercise them accordingly ...according to the proportion of his faith." (Romans 12:6).
"As your faith grows, we shall be, within our sphere, enlarged more by you." (2nd Corinthians 10:15).
From Paul's letters we learn not only that "faith" is based on certain great gifts of God, "faith" is itself a gift of God. It is given to every Christian in a "measure," a "measure" that grows during the Christian life. There are other gifts listed in Romans 12:3-8 that differ according to the grace given to each individual Christian, namely: "prophecy, service, teaching, exhortations, giving, leading, showing of mercy." These other gifts are to be exercised according to the "proportion" of the"measure of faith" God has given. Thus we learn that "faith" is a very important gift that supplies the motivating force for Christian life activities, such activities as the exercising of the seven other gifts mentioned in Romans 12:3-8. And as "faith" grows in the Christian because of his continuous obedient relationship with Christ, so shall his activities under the grace given to him be enlarged. A Christian's "faith" gains potential as his spiritual relationship with Christ progresses.

Let us consider some analogies in the physical realm of God's creation which may help us understand "faith." "Faith" appears to be like water backed up behind a dam, potentially ready to provide the force to propel the current of a river. Or "faith" is like the electromotive force present in a battery providing the voltage to propel electrical current through a circuit. "Faith" is just one element necessary to make God's spiritual circuit perform. Next we will consider the place of God's gift of "love" and how "faith" provides the motivating potential to "love and good works" in God's spiritual circuit.




"LOVE" IS A GIFT FLOWING CONTINUOUSLY FROM GOD THROUGH HIS HOLY SPIRIT.
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." (1st John 4:7-11).
"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8).
"But whoever keeps His word, in Him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him." (1st John 1:5).
"No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit." (1st John 4:12-13).
"And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us." (Romans 5:5).
"For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39).
This word "love," represented in the New Testament by the Greek noun "AGAPE" or the Greek verb "AGAPAO," is not the common word we hear thrown around loosely to express human personal preference. It is an attribute of God so pervasive in His righteous makeup that the Biblical writer was inspired to declare "God is love." This "love," which God has expressed to mankind to a superlative degree in that "He gave His only begotten Son," can scarcely be defined, but only described with phrases like "all-embracing benevolence and goodwill." God's "love" always seeks the highest and best good for mankind with no requirement for merit on man's part.

This kind of love is not a natural attribute with which man is born. Man is the object of God's perfect affection, but man does not emit naturally this Godly affection toward other humans. But God wants people to have and to utilize His unique "love" in order for them to exercise it in performance of "good works" as Christians in His eternal Kingdom. So when people embrace Christianity by a "new birth of water and the Spirit," God grants to them the gift of His "love,""poured out within their hearts through the Holy Spirit." Through this gift of His perfect "love" God shares Himself with Christians. Thus this "love" comes only from God into the hearts of those who are "in Christ," with the Holy Spirit being the communication link.

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HOW THE TRIUMVIRATE OF "FAITH," "LOVE," AND "HOPE" OPERATES IN GOD'S SPIRITUAL SYSTEM.
First, let us list the working parts of the system in which Christians are called upon to exercise their gifts in "good works that God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:10). The major categories of working parts are:

1. The Triune Godhead -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

2. Each Christian, you and I.

3. Our brethren in the Lord's church.

4. All other people of the world.

5. God's gifts to people - especially the gifts of faith, love, and hope.

Each part of this great spiritual system has its own unique part to play in God's business of saving mankind. God the Father is the great Manager and Enabler. God the Son is the great Creator and Doer who reached out to mankind in the flesh. God the Holy Spirit is the great spiritual Communicator who gives life to mankind and speaks to their personal spirits and souls.

Each person, Christian and non-Christian alike, has been created in the likeness of the triune God with "spirit and soul and body." The "soul" is the eternal essence of a person, created to self-manage all aspects of the person with exercise of unique intellect, volition, and emotion, all in the likeness of God the Father. The "spirit" provides the person's communication terminal with the spiritual realm, receiving and transmitting spiritual messages through exercise of communion, conscience, and intuition, in the likeness of God the Holy Spirit. The "body" is a person's own unique temple for his soul and spirit, created as suitable for God's physical universe, with provision to be transformed as suitable for God's wholly spiritual realm. The "body" is created or transformed as necessary for service in a person's environment, all in the likeness of God the Son, who took on a fleshly body, sacrificed it as He saw the need, and then led the way in receiving it back as a transformed spiritual body.

God's gifts of "faith" and "love" are attributes of the Godhead which are shared with Christians to accomplish the "good works which God prepared beforehand" that they should do. God gives "hope" in order that Christian laborers may taste the results of their work even while it is being done. "The laborer is worthy of his wages." (Luke 10:7). The gift of "hope" is evidence that the grace of God provides God's promised reward for His Christian workers.

Thus, all the working parts are in place. We can now see how the motivating potential ("faith") and the current ("love") flows from the great Power Source (God the Father) through the great Communication Link (the Holy Spirit) into the active elements (spirits and souls of people "in Christ") to transmit the Gospel to mankind on earth today. In the physical analogy the force of voltage multiplied by the current equals the power developed in the load. Similarly, in God's spiritual circuit, "faith" multiplied by "love" equals the spiritual power of "hope" developed in the souls of those who receive the gospel.

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"FAITH," " LOVE," AND "HOPE" ARE USED TOGETHER BY CHRISTIANS IN THE SPIRITUAL PRESENCE OF GOD.
"We give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all saints; because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel." (Colossians 1:3-5).
"We give thanks to God always for all of you,... constantly bearing in mind your work of faith andlabor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father." (1st Thessalonians 1:2-3).
In Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians (Chapter 1, verses 2 and 3) Paul refers in a single sentence to all three gifts, "faith," "love," and "hope," each with a single word explanation of how each gift is used in the life of a Christian. Notice the phrases "work of faith," "labor of love," and "steadfastness of hope." The single word to characterize faith is "work." The single word to characterize love is "labor." The single word to characterize hope is "steadfastness."




MEANING OF "WORK OF FAITH."
Let us consider the phrase "work of faith." The word "work" is translated from the Greek word ERGON which meant "a business," "a trade," or "a work." The phrase "work of faith," then, is a metaphor indicating that a Christian is to be in "the business of faith." It is often necessary for inspired writers of the Bible to describe spiritual things in the language of physical things. In this metaphor, the analogy is a worldly business. In "the business of faith" a Christian takes a "supply of faith" and does something "profitable" with it. The efficacy of the business depends upon the Christian having a supply of "faith" and using it. The "profit" to be gained from this "business" is the accomplishment of God's purposes in the life of a Christian.

In accord with our previous analogy of "faith" as the voltage in an electrical circuit, the supply of faith provides the motivating force or potential for this "business." But faith is not the only prerequisite for the starting and the running of this "business." The "business" must have more than just a motivating force. It must have something to "flow" through the "circuit" to produce "a product to be dispensed." This brings us to the Christian's use of the gift of "love."




MEANING OF "LABOR OF LOVE."
In Paul's phrase "labor of love," the word "labor" is translated from the Greek word KOPOS, which meant "a beating," "wearing out work," or "weariness." The metaphor "labor of love," then, seems to indicate the constant exercise of "love" to the point of "weariness," of being "worn out," or of being "exhausted as from a beating." The real meaning of this may be hard to contemplate. As the perfect example let us contemplate God's exercise of His "love" toward mankind. "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:16). The Biblical account of the constant "labor" of God, from the time of creation through the ages to this present day, to give this gift of "love" to mankind, and the account of the grief that mankind has given to God in constant rejection of the gift, should give us some inkling of the meaning of "labor of love." Christians will never be able to duplicate God's "labor of love," but nevertheless, God's admonition is for Christians to perform this "labor of love" to the point of "exhaustion or weariness." This phrase "labor of love" seems to support quite well our use of the analogy of "love" as being a constant, never ending "current flow"in a spiritual system that works on the principle of an electrical circuit.




MEANING OF "STEADFASTNESS OF HOPE."
In Paul's phrase "steadfastness of hope," the word "steadfastness" is translated from the Greek word HUPOMONE, which meant "patience," "endurance," or "continuance." This seems to indicate that God's gift of "hope" in the Christian life is"enduring" and gives "continuing" help until the "hope" is fulfilled and is no longer needed. In terms of our analogy, "hope" is a sure "product" generated by the "business of faith," or an enduring "output" caused by the "flow of love" through the "loaded circuit" of one's Christian life.

"Hope," then, is far more than a mere wish, but is a substantive spiritual grant to be enjoyed by the soul of the Christian even while he lives on earth, satisfying to the intellect, challenging to the volition, and pleasing to the emotion.

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This post is about using hope/optimism to get you out of the past and into the present, into the truth of what is around you.

It’s written in the first person (me!) and in realtime, as if it’s happening right now. If this story makes sense to you then please read to the bottom and read the next post which will come in 2 days. I hope these two will help you get into the present and see the good around you.

There are three parts to this post:

Using the eyes of our past
Using our real eyes to see the good around us
Using eyes of faith to see the hope/optimism ahead
1. Using the eyes of our past
I want to get up, but I stay down. I can see it’s not a viable strategy for the long term, but I stay down anyway. I always enjoy the feeling of energy and enthusiasm that I usually have flowing through my veins. It’s exhillarating. But not today. It seems like I’m on a good wicket and then something happens and it looks bleak, like I will lose everything. I deflate and give up. “I knew it. It’s always like this” is my explanation style. I stay flat and defeated. No energy. Bored.

Capable of so much, but seemingly doomed to lose everything every time. Why gather the harvest if someone else will take it away? (But look what God has to say: Is 62:9 and Is 37:30). I feel like I’m halfway between the past and the present. It’s partly that I believe the lies that I can’t do what I aspire to, or that if I succeed then it will upset someone, or when I have succeeeded then someting will come and sabotage what I have achieved. I feel like I have no control. I may as well not even try.

But it is my explanation style which is actually keeping me trapped. Instead of seeing a challenge, I see certain defeat. Instead of seeing a hiccup or slight pause, I see a repeat of past failure. Fear immobilizes me. Yes it’s less than it used to be and I recover faster than ever before. The setbacks are measured in minutes rather than weeks or days.

All I see are the mountains ahead and I know I don’t have the energy in my body to go over them, no will, no desire to overcome. I know normally I could move over them with easy and sustained steps, because they aren’t actually mountains. But viewed from the bottom of the pit they look higher, steeper, more energy sapping than they really are. Slight inclines look like ravines sides from in the pit.

2. Using our real eyes to see the good around us
And suddenly the confrontation is over. I won. I see myself again, not my past, not my hidden traumas, not my sad stories. I am me again and I see my life as it is, spread out before me, a banquet of experiences and treats and relationships to be had.

To the naiive the experiences ahead contain light and dark, good and bad - they can hurt and reward. The future looks uncertain to them. From there. But to those with a good understanding of boundaries, they know they can avoid the bad well before it arrives. They also know that they can steer teir life toward the good experiences that are just over there.

The energy slowly seeps back into my body via my head, through my eyes. I’m seeing the world as it really is now, the tables, the kind people around me, the fun and laughter to be had, the colours. The eyes of my memory fade, the dangers of my past, the hidden traumas no longer look present with me, they no longer confront me, they no longer look dangerous.

As light floods my thoughts I am here, now. The darknes that had seemingly flooded the room has left. Shadows of my distant past are no longer here with me. They have gone back to the distant past. Here with me now is my life. Banished to the distant past are those thoughts and concerns. I say to myself, I felt that then, I don’t face that now.

I’m here, now. Before me are challenges abd tests which I am more than able to handle. I’m not who I was. I am who I am now. What’s done is done. I’m here now. My proven track record is a good one. I am safe. With the help of boundaries I will remain safe.

3. Using eyes of faith to see the hope/optimism ahead
But I hope for more than just to be safe. I will express myself. I will walk in the path that God has prepared for me (Eph 2:10). The dark shadows of memories that seemed to stand in front of me for a few moments, they seemed so real, so present, so now… they are banished, sent back to my distant past. That’s not me. I’m the one who balances my budget. I have gifts for people. People enjoy my company. I help people heal. I have a wonderful relationship with the God of Heaven. I have a destony and “you can’t stop prophecy”.

I look around me. Where is the pit that I thought was there? Where are the ghosts that clouded my reality for a short time? They tried to tell me that I am as I was. No. I repeat: NO. God tells me who I am and He tells me. And I choose to believe it.

My “eyes of faith” look even further into the future. My destiny is safely still there. Waiting. Over those slight inclines (not mountains after all!) Look, it is closer than it has ever been! It’s a great time to be me. I’m here. I’m going there. Here is good. There is better. I never need to look back.

Fear not, for you shall not be ashamed; neither be confounded and depressed, for you shall not be put to shame. For you shall forget the shame of your youth, and you shall not [seriously] remember the reproach of your widowhood any more. - Isaiah 54:4

This is my real, learned experience. Hope and optimism is the anti-dote to depression. I guess thats why the bible says it’s one of the big three: faith, hope, love. May God bless you in your journey!

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Teamwork is the concept of people working together cooperatively as a team in order to accomplish the same goals/objectives.

A general dictionary defines teamwork as a "Cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group (sociology) of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause, unison for a higher cause, people working together for a selfless purpose, and so on."

Applied to workplaces teamwork is a method that aligns employee mindsets in a cooperative and usually selfless manner, towards a specific business purpose. Today there is no business or organization that does not talk about the need and value of teamwork in the workplace. While the concept of teamwork and its benefits are well known and talked about, it is very rare to see it being practiced truly in reality. And you may have often noticed what appears outwardly as teamwork is not really teamwork internally. Some things cannot be accomplished by people working individually. Larger, more ambitious goals usually require that people work together with other people. Because of this, teamwork is a desired goal of many businesses and organizations today. Projects often require that people work together in order to accomplish a common goal. Although critics often argue that in the corporate world teamwork has become an empty buzzword, or a form of corporate-speak. Effective collaborative skills (knowledge) are necessary to work well in a team environment. As businesses and organizations become larger or more sophisticated. Many employers attempt to enhance their employees' collaborative efforts through training, cross-training, and workshops in order to help people effectively work together in a cohesive group and accomplish shared goals.

Human beings are fiercely independent animals and we will always have our own opinions and independent methods of doing something. This is the way our minds are hardwired by nature. Except for a very small percentage of us, sharing and collaboration with others is not exactly programmed inside each and every one of us. This is because each person is mainly concerned about his or her rewards, appreciation, need for power over others, and so on. But teamwork is a different ballgame that aligns mindsets in a cooperative, and usually selfless manner towards a specific business purpose. And it involves sacrifices, sharing of rewards, sharing the blame and punishments, true uniformity, suppression of personal opinions, etc., which is not very palatable to many. It is always, "What is in it for me" rather than "What is in it for us.

In order for teamwork to succeed one must be a teamplayer. A Teamplayer is one who subordinates personal aspirations and works in a coordinated effort with other members of a group, or team, in striving for a common goal. Businesses and other organizations often go to the effort of coordinating team building events in an attempt to get people to work as a team rather than as individuals.

A 2003 national representative survey, HOW-FAIR [1], revealed that Americans think that 'being a team player' was the most important factor in getting ahead in the workplace. This was ranked higher than several factors, including 'merit and performance', 'leadership skills', 'intelligence', 'making money for the organization' and 'long hours'.

“The old structures are being reformed. As organizations seek to become more flexible in the face of rapid environmental change and more responsive to the needs of customers, they are experimenting with new, team-based structures”

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Teamwork skills
Aside from any required technical proficiency, a wide variety of social skills are desirable for successful teamwork, including:

Listening - it is important to listen to other people's ideas. When people are allowed to freely express their ideas, these initial ideas will produce other ideas.
Discussing It is important to discuss your ideas with your teammates until you agree.
Questioning - it is important to ask questions, interact, and discuss the objectives of the team.
Persuading - individuals are encouraged to exchange, defend, and then to ultimately rethink their ideas.
Respecting - it is important to treat others with respect and to support their ideas.
Helping - it is crucial to help one's coworkers, which is the general theme of teamwork.
Sharing - it is important to share with the team to create an environment of teamwork.
Participating - all members of the team are encouraged to participate in the team.
Communication - For a team to work effectively it is essential team members acquire communication skills and use effective communication channels between one another e.g. using email, viral communication, group meetings and so on. This will enable team members of the group to work together and achieve the team's purpose and goals.
The forming-storming-norming-performing model takes the team through four stages of team development and maps quite well on to many project management life cycle models, such as initiation - definition - planning - realisation.

As teams grow larger, the skills and methods that people require grow as more ideas are expressed freely. Managers must use these to create or maintain a spirit of teamwork change. The intimacy of a small group is lost, and the opportunity for misinformation and disruptive rumors grows. Managers find that communication methods that once worked well are impractical with so many people to lead. Specifically, leaders might encounter difficulties based on Daglow's Law of Team Dynamics: "Small teams are informed. Big teams infer."


[edit] Team roles
The approach to Team Role analysis was first introduced by Meredith Belbin in 1981[2] to inform management consulting practices and for training[3]. (Belbin Team Roles are not designed for high stake employment decisions.)

Belbin proposed nine team roles required for successful teams:

Coordinator
This person will have a clear view of the team objectives and will be skilled at inviting the contribution of team members in achieving these, rather than just pushing his or her own view. The coordinator (or chairperson) is self disciplined and applies this discipline to the team. They are confident and mature, and will summarize the view of the group and will be prepared to take a decision on the basis of this.
Shaper
The shaper is full of drive to make things happen and get things going. In doing this they are quite happy to push their own views forward, do not mind being challenged and are always ready to challenge others. The shaper looks for the pattern in discussions and tries to pull things together into something feasible, which the team can then get to work on.
Plant
This member is the one who is most likely to come out with original ideas and challenge the traditional way of thinking about things. Sometimes they become so imaginative and creative that the team cannot see the relevance of what they are saying. However, without the plant to scatter the seeds of new ideas the team will often find it difficult to make any headway. The plant’s strength is in providing major new insights and ideas for changes in direction and not in contributing to the detail of what needs to be done.
Resource investigator
The resource investigator is the group member with the strongest contacts and networks, and is excellent at bringing in information and support from the outside. This member can be very enthusiastic in pursuit of the team’s goals, but cannot always sustain this enthusiasm.
Implementer
The individual who is a company worker is well organized and effective at turning big ideas into manageable tasks and plans that can be achieved. Such individuals are both logical and disciplined in their approach. They are hardworking and methodical but may have some difficulty in being flexible.
Team worker
The team worker is the one who is most aware of the others in the team, their needs and their concerns. They are sensitive and supportive of other people’s efforts, and try to promote harmony and reduce conflict. Team workers are particularly important when the team is experiencing a stressful or difficult period.
Completer Finisher
The Completer Finisher is a perfectionist and will often go the extra mile to make sure everything is "just right," and the things he or she delivers can be trusted to have been double-checked and then checked again. The Completer Finisher has a strong inward sense of the need for accuracy, rarely needing any encouragement from others because that individual's own high standards are what he or she tries to live up to. They may frustrate their teammates by worrying excessively about minor details and refusing to delegate tasks that they do not trust anyone else to perform.
Monitor evaluator
The monitor evaluator is good at seeing all the options. They have a strategic perspective and can judge situations accurately. The monitor evaluator can be overcritical and is not usually good at inspiring and encouraging others.
Specialist
This person provides specialist skills and knowledge and has a dedicated and single-minded approach. They can adopt a very narrow perspective and sometimes fail to see the whole picture. (Note: the specialist is not considered a team role)

[edit] Team Building
Team Building, or Team Development, is a coverall term given to methods of developing an effective team.

The methods of doing this vary widely, and include

simple social activities - to encourage team members to spend time together
group bonding sessions - company sponsored fun activities to get to know team members
personal development activities - personal change applied on a group level, sometimes physically challenging
team development activities - group-dynamic games designed to reveal how individuals approach a problem and how the team works together
psychological analysis of team roles, and training in how to work better together
Team building generally sits within the theory and practice of organizational development.

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A team comprises a group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks.

A group in itself does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams normally have members with complementary skills and generate synergy through a coordinated effort which allows each member to maximize his or her strengths and minimize his or her weaknesses.

Thus teams of sports players can form (and re-form) to practice their craft. Transport logistics executives can select teams of horses, dogs or oxen for the purpose of conveying goods.

Theorists in business in the late 20th century popularized the concept of constructing teams. Differing opinions exist on the efficacy of this new management fad. Some see "team" as a four-letter word: overused and under-useful. Others see it as a panacea that finally realizes the human relations movement's desire to integrate what that movement perceives as best for workers and as best for managers. Still others believe in the effectiveness of teams, but also see them as dangerous because of the potential for exploiting workers — in that team effectiveness can rely on peer pressure and peer surveillance.

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Happiness is an emotion associated with feelings ranging from contentment and satisfaction to bliss and intense joy.

A variety of philosophical, religious, psychological and biological approaches have been taken to defining happiness and identifying its sources.

Philosophers and religious thinkers have often defined happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion. Happiness in this older sense was used to translate the Greek Eudaimonia, and is still used in virtue ethics. In everyday speech today, however, terms such as well-being or quality of life are usually used signify the classical meaning and happiness is reserved for the felt experience or experiences that philosophers historically called pleasure.

Happiness forms a central theme of Buddhist teachings, which focuses on obtaining freedom from suffering by following the Eightfold Path. In the Buddhist view, ultimate happiness is only achieved by overcoming craving in all forms. Aristotle saw happiness as "the virtuous activity of the soul in accordance with reason," or the practice of virtue. In Catholicism, the ultimate end of human existence consists in felicity, or "blessed happiness", described by the 13th-century philosopher-theologian Thomas Aquinas as a Beatific Vision of God's essence in the next life.[1] One psychological approach, positive psychology, describes happiness as consisting of positive emotions and positive activities.

While direct measurement of happiness is difficult, tools such as The Oxford Happiness Inventory have been developed by researchers. Physiological correlates to happiness can be measured through a variety of techniques, and survey research can be based on self-reported happiness levels.

Research has identified a number of correlates with happiness. These include religious involvement, parenthood, marital status, age and income. Happiness economics suggests that measures of public happiness should be used to supplement more traditional economic measures when evaluating how successful public policy is.

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Albert Camus:
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?



Albert Camus:
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.



Albert Schweitzer:
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.



Albert Schweitzer:
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.



Albert Schweitzer:
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.



Algernon Black:
Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.


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Allan K. Chalmers:
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.



Amy Lowell:
Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.



Anne Frank:
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.



Anne Frank:
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.



Aristotle:
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient



Baruch Spinoza:
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.



Benjamin Disraeli:
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.



Bertrand Russell:
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.



Brother David Steindl-Rast :
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.



Buddha:
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.



Carl Jung:
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.



Claude Monet:
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.



Denis Waitley:
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.



Ecclesiastes:
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.


Ecclesiastes 3:1-8



Edith Wharton:
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.



Edward de Bono:
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.



Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.



Eric Hoffer:
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.



Felix Adler:
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.



Fran Leibowitz:
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.



Francoise de Motteville:
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.



Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.



George Burns:
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

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The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people. Often referred to simply as "His Holiness" (HH), or "His Holiness The Dalai Lama", Tibetans usually call the Dalai Lama by the epithets Gyalwa Rinpoche, meaning "Precious Victor", or Yeshe Norbu, meaning "Wish-fulfilling Jewel." "Lama" (meaning "teacher") is a title given to many different ranks of Tibetan Buddhist clergy.

The Dalai Lama is believed to be the current incarnation of a long line of Tulkus, or Buddhist Masters, who have become exempt from the wheel of death and rebirth. These ascended masters have chosen of their own free will to be reborn to this plane in order to teach humanity.

Between the 17th century and 1959, the Dalai Lama was the head of the Tibetan Government, administering a large portion of the country from the capital Lhasa, although the extent of the lineage's political authority and rulership over territory has been contested. Since 1959, the Dalai Lama has presided over the Central Tibetan Administration, which is exiled in India. The Dalai Lama is often thought to be the head of the Gelug School, but this position officially belongs to the Ganden Tripa, which is a temporary position appointed by the Dalai Lama (who in practice exerts more influence).

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The major theories of truth
The question of what is a proper basis for deciding how words, symbols, ideas and beliefs may properly be considered true, whether by a single person or an entire society, is dealt with by the five major substantive theories introduced below. These theories each present perspectives that are widely shared by published scholars.[2][3] There also have more recently arisen "deflationary" or "minimalist" theories of truth based on the idea that the application of a term like true to a statement does not assert anything significant about it, for instance, anything about its nature, but that the label truth is a tool of discourse used to express agreement, to emphasize claims, or to form certain types of generalizations.[2][4][5] Some post-modern thinkers assert that what passes for truth is in fact, merely, the mass consensus of the public. This would entail that no effort, or application of theory or experiment, is required to arrive at truth, which is in effect only a by-product of social change.[citation needed]


[edit] Substantive theories

Truth, holding a mirror and a serpent (1896). Olin Levi Warner, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.
[edit] Correspondence theory
Main article: Correspondence theory of truth
Correspondence theories state that true beliefs and true statements correspond to the actual state of affairs.[6] This type of theory attempts to posit a relationship between thoughts or statements on the one hand, and things or objects on the other. It is a traditional model which goes back at least to some of the classical Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.[7] This class of theories holds that the truth or the falsity of a representation is determined in principle solely by how it relates to objective reality, by whether it accurately describes that reality. For example, there is a true distance to the moon when we humans attempt to go there, and this true distance is necessary to know so that the journey can be successfully made.

Correspondence theory states that truth is a matter of accurately copying "objective reality" and then representing it in thoughts, words and other symbols.[8] A major proponent of this theory is the Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas, who said that "Truth is the conformity of the intellect with things." He said that real things participate in the act of being of the Creator God who is Subsistent Being, Intelligence, and Truth. Thus, these beings possess the light of intelligibility and are knowable. These things (beings; reality) are the foundation of the truth that is found in the human mind, when it acquires knowledge of things, first through the senses, then through the understanding and the judgement done by reason. For Aquinas, human intelligence ("intus", within and "legere", to read) has the capability to reach the essence and existence of things because it has a non-material, spiritual element, although some moral, educational, and other elements might interfere with its capability.


[edit] Coherence theory
Main article: Coherence theory of truth
More modern theorists have stated that the idea behind correspondence theory cannot be achieved independently of some analysis of additional factors. Proponents of several of these other theories have gone farther to assert that there are yet other issues necessary to the analysis, such as language and its translation to other languages, interpersonal power struggles, community interactions, personal biases, and other factors involved in deciding what is seen as truth.

For coherence theories in general, truth requires a proper fit of elements within a whole system. Very often, though, coherence is taken to imply something more than simple logical consistency; often there is a demand that the propositions in a coherent system lend mutual inferential support to each other. So, for example, the completeness and comprehensiveness of the underlying set of concepts is a critical factor in judging the validity and usefulness of a coherent system.[9] A pervasive tenet of coherence theories is the idea that truth is primarily a property of whole systems of propositions, and can be ascribed to individual propositions only according to their coherence with the whole. Among the assortment of perspectives commonly regarded as coherence theory, theorists differ on the question of whether coherence entails many possible true systems of thought or only a single absolute system.

Some variants of coherence theory are claimed to characterize the essential and intrinsic properties of formal systems in logic and mathematics.[10] However, formal reasoners are content to contemplate axiomatically independent and sometimes mutually contradictory systems side by side, for example, the various alternative geometries. On the whole, coherence theories have been criticized as lacking justification in their application to other areas of truth, especially with respect to assertions about the natural world, empirical data in general, assertions about practical matters of psychology and society, especially when used without support from the other major theories of truth.[11]

Coherence theories distinguish the thought of rationalist philosophers, particularly of Spinoza, Leibniz, and G.W.F. Hegel, along with the British philosopher F.H. Bradley.[12] They have found a resurgence also among several proponents of logical positivism, notably Otto Neurath and Carl Hempel.


[edit] Constructivist theory
Main article: Constructivist epistemology
Social constructivism holds that truth is constructed by social processes, is historically and culturally specific, and that it is in part shaped through the power struggles within a community. Constructivism views all of our knowledge as "constructed," because it does not reflect any external "transcendent" realities (as a pure correspondence theory might hold). Rather, perceptions of truth are viewed as contingent on convention, human perception, and social experience. It is believed by constructivists that representations of physical and biological reality, including race, sexuality, and gender are socially constructed. Giambattista Vico was among the first to claim that history and culture were man-made. Vico's epistemological orientation gathers the most diverse rays and unfolds in one axiom--verum ipsum factum--"truth itself is constructed." Hegel, Garns, and Marx were among the other early proponents of the premise that truth is socially constructed.


[edit] Consensus theory
Main article: Consensus theory of truth
Consensus theory holds that truth is whatever is agreed upon, or in some versions, might come to be agreed upon, by some specified group. Such a group might include all human beings, or a subset thereof consisting of more than one person.

Among the current advocates of consensus theory as a useful accounting of the concept of "truth" is the philosopher Jürgen Habermas.[13] Habermas maintains that truth is what would be agreed upon in an ideal speech situation.[14] Among the current strong critics of consensus theory is the philosopher Nicholas Rescher.[15]


[edit] Pragmatic theory
Main article: Pragmatic theory of truth
The three most influential forms of the pragmatic theory of truth were introduced around the turn of the 20th century by Charles S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Although there are wide differences in viewpoint among these and other proponents of pragmatic theory, they hold in common that truth is verified and confirmed by the results of putting one's concepts into practice.[16]

Peirce defines truth as follows: "Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth."[17] This statement emphasizes Peirce's view that ideas of approximation, incompleteness, and partiality, what he describes elsewhere as fallibilism and "reference to the future", are essential to a proper conception of truth. Although Peirce uses words like concordance and correspondence to describe one aspect of the pragmatic sign relation, he is also quite explicit in saying that definitions of truth based on mere correspondence are no more than nominal definitions, which he accords a lower status than real definitions.

William James's version of pragmatic theory, while complex, is often summarized by his statement that "the 'true' is only the expedient in our way of thinking, just as the 'right' is only the expedient in our way of behaving."[18] By this, James meant that truth is a quality the value of which is confirmed by its effectiveness when applying concepts to actual practice (thus, "pragmatic").

John Dewey, less broadly than James but more broadly than Peirce, held that inquiry, whether scientific, technical, sociological, philosophical or cultural, is self-corrective over time if openly submitted for testing by a community of inquirers in order to clarify, justify, refine and/or refute proposed truths.[19]

[UnregisteredGOODMEN]

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle

Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

[UnregisteredXOXOXO]

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
William Penn

The middle course is the best.
Cleobulus

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb

Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca

Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.
John Milton

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,
in the heart.
William Hazlitt

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius

[UnregisteredXOXOXXO]

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life
Winston Churchill

Play for more than you can afford to
lose and you will learn the game.
Winston Churchill

Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb

Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....
Martin Luther


That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Neitzsche

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Ovid

The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do.
His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now."
Joseph Ray

If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up some place else.
Yogi Berra

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Helen Keller

There is time for everything.
Thomas A. Edison

Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but religiously follows the new.
Henry David Thoreau

I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.
Firdtjof Nansen

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Richard Cech

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

We don't live in a world of reality,
we live in a world of perceptions.
Gerald J. Simmons

The first and greatest commandment is,
Don't let them scare you.
Elmer Davis

[UnregisteredXOXOXO]

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton

[UnregisteredHELLO]

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley

[UnregisteredXOXOXO]

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Noah Porter

If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams


He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(from Christian Leadership World)

Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus


A leader is a deal in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

[UnregisteredAWESOME]

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen Keller

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Helen Keller

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Helen Keller

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
Helen Keller

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller

[Unregistered3120]

fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill

Although prepared for nnnnnrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston Churchill

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

I am bored with it all.
Winston Churchill

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.
Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Winston Churchill

I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
Winston Churchill

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill

found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

[UnregisteredXOXOXXO]

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Actors are one family over the entire world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding is a two-way street.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

What is to give light must endure the burning.
Eleanor Roosevelt

What one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor Roosevelt

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama

Spend some time alone every day.
Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

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By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.
Jack LaLanne

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?
Jack LaLanne

Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
Jack LaLanne

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Jack LaLanne

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
Jack LaLanne

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.
Jack LaLanne

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?
Jack LaLanne

If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
Jack LaLanne

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
Jack LaLanne

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.
Jack LaLanne

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
Jack LaLanne

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
Jack LaLanne

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
Jack LaLanne

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
Jack LaLanne

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
Jack LaLanne

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
Jack LaLanne

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
Jack LaLanne

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
Jack LaLanne

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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody Allen

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
Woody Allen

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody Allen

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.
Woody Allen

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.
Woody Allen

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
Woody Allen

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Woody Allen

I am two with nature.
Woody Allen

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
Woody Allen

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.
Woody Allen

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
Woody Allen

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
Woody Allen

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
Woody Allen

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen

I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'
Woody Allen

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.
Woody Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody Allen

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
Woody Allen

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Woody Allen

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
Woody Allen

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
Woody Allen

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Woody Allen

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Woody Allen

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
Woody Allen

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
Woody Allen

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen

It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
Woody Allen

Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
Woody Allen

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody Allen

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Woody Allen

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
Woody Allen

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Woody Allen

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
Woody Allen

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
Woody Allen

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
Woody Allen

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody Allen

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody Allen

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen

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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy a limitless succession of Universes. Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Edgar Allan Poe

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan Poe

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

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Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams

Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Robin Williams

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
Robin Williams

Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.
Robin Williams

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so... look at the platypus.
Robin Williams

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
Robin Williams

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
Robin Williams

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
Robin Williams

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
Robin Williams

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
Robin Williams

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?
Robin Williams

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Robin Williams

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
Robin Williams

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Robin Williams

Reality: What a concept!
Robin Williams

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Robin Williams

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
Robin Williams

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.
Robin Williams

The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.
Robin Williams

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Robin Williams

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
Robin Williams

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
Robin Williams

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
Robin Williams

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
Robin Williams

When in doubt, go for the dick joke.
Robin Williams

When the media ask George W. Bush a question, he answers, 'Can I use a lifeline?'
Robin Williams

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
Robin Williams

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
Robin Williams

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
Robin Williams

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams

[Unregistered121212]

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

At my age flowers scare me.
George Burns

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
George Burns

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
George Burns

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George Burns

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
George Burns

How can I die? I'm booked.
George Burns

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
George Burns

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
George Burns

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
George Burns

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
George Burns

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
George Burns

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
George Burns

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
George Burns

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
George Burns

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
George Burns

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
George Burns

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George Burns

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
George Burns

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
George Burns

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
George Burns

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George Burns

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
George Burns

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
George Burns

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns

[Unregistered121212]

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Johnny Carson

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Johnny Carson

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Johnny Carson

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
Johnny Carson

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
Johnny Carson

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Johnny Carson

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Johnny Carson

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Johnny Carson

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
Johnny Carson

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Johnny Carson

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
Johnny Carson

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
Johnny Carson

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
Johnny Carson

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?"
Johnny Carson

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Johnny Carson

We're more effective than birth control pills.
Johnny Carson

When turkeys mate they think of swans.
Johnny Carson

[Unregistered121212]

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.
John Belushi

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
John Belushi

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
John Belushi

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.
John Belushi

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.
John Belushi

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
John Belushi

Work is no longer challenging.

[Unregistered2525]

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
Phyllis Diller

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.
Phyllis Diller

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
Phyllis Diller

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
Phyllis Diller

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
Phyllis Diller

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
Phyllis Diller

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'
Phyllis Diller

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.
Phyllis Diller

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis Diller

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing.
Phyllis Diller

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Phyllis Diller

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Phyllis Diller

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
Phyllis Diller

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
Phyllis Diller

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Diller

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.
Phyllis Diller

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
Phyllis Diller

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
Phyllis Diller

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.
Phyllis Diller

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.
Phyllis Diller

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
Phyllis Diller

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
Phyllis Diller

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
Phyllis Diller

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
Phyllis Diller

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Phyllis Diller

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
Phyllis Diller

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
Phyllis Diller

[UnregisteredBOHEMIAROCKS]

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)


"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-)

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings (1894-1962)

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)


"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)


"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)


"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)


"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup


"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)


"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)


"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)


"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)


"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)


"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)


"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)


"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)


"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)


"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)


"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song


"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882


"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)


"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)


"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown


"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."
- Sharon Stone


"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)


"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)


"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)


"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)


"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)


", and sure enough they're yours."

[UnregisteredGOODMEN]

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
- Anwar el Sadat

Friends can bond anywhere, doing anything

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
- Irish proverb

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
- Max Lerner.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw

You lift me, and I'll lift you, and we'll ascend together.
- Anonymous

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Anonymous

We may have all come from different ships, but we’re on the same boat now
- Martin Luther King, Jr

Toleration is the best religion - Victor Hugo

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor, --it requires only that they live with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement - John F. Kennedy, Jr.

[UnregisteredCOMMITTED]

Attitude determines altitude.
- Anonymous

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

...Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
- Anonymous

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
- Anonymous

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
- Anonymous

Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude

Be who you are in every situation.
- Michael Johnson

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
- Anonymous

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- Anonymous

[UnregisteredDEDICATED]

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.
- Winston Churchill

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
- Anonymous

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
- Mohammed

You can't put a price on generosity


The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
- Helen Keller

The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
- W. Beran Wolfe

The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
- Traditional Proverb

He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
- German Proverb

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Ghandi

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller

You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
- Anonymous

Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
- Larry Scherwitz

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
- Philip Brooks

That which a man willingly shares, he keeps.
That which he selfishly keeps, he loses.
- Anonymous

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
- Persian Proverb

Even in darkness, light dawns for the upright,
for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.
Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely,
who conducts his affairs with justice.
He will have no fear of bad news;
his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
His heart is secure; he will have no fear;
in the end he will see his desire on his adversaries.
He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor,
his righteousness endures forever;
his horn [dignity] will be lifted high in honor.
- Psalm 112: 4-5, 7-9

One man gives freely, yet gains even more;
another withholds unduly, but ends up impoverished.
-Proverbs 11:24

No one became poor by giving alms.
- French Proverb

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
- Mother Teresa, Albanian Roman Catholic missionary in India

The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.
- Leonard Nimoy, American actor, director and writer

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any man’s power nor an easy matter…
- Aristotle

[UnregisteredLOYAL]

Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
- Afghan Proverb

A small house will hold a hundred friends.
- African Proverb

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is not born of words alone.
- Armenian Proverb

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
- Assyrian Proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
- Czech Proverb

Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
- Gabonese Proverb

God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
- Ethel Watts Mumford

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred—that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Anonymous

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- Buddha

One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
- Russian Proverb

The time to make friends is before you need them.
- Traditional Proverb

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
- Egyptian Proverb

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
- Michael Johnson

[UnregisteredHONORABLE]

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain

One lie ruins a thousand truths.
- Ghanaian Proverb

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- William Shakespeare

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
- Mary Kay Ash

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
- Cicero

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- F.M. Hubbard

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
- Anonymous

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
- Walter Anderson

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
- Anonymous

Honesty is the best image.
- Tom Wilson

Truth fears no questions.
- Unknown

One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
- Chinese Proverb

Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
- Dutch Proverb

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
- Edgar J. Mohn

A half truth is a whole lie - Yiddish Proverb

A truthful witness gives honest testimony, a false witness tells lies - Proverbs 12:17

The truth shall make you free - John 8:32

[UnregisteredINTEGRITY]

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
- Anonymous

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
- Karl G. Maeser

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow,
so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
-Anonymous

You really can change the world if you care enough.
- Marion Wright Edelman

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw

Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
- Anonymous

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
- David O. McKay

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
- Iranian Proverb

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
- John Maxwell

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
-Anonymous

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
- J. Richard Clarke

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Anonymous

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
- Dorothy Day

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
- Matthew 5:15 (see also v.14- 16)

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
- Hubert Humphrey, U.S. vice president, senator

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
- Welsh Proverb

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
- Zen Proverb

[UnregisteredTERRIFIC]

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
- Harrison Ford

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
- Author unknown

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.
- Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
- Brian Tracy

If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
- Mary Engelbreit

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
- Anonymous

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it.
Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat.
- Prince Phillip of England

Change can involve money, but it doesn't have to

Change yourself, change your fortunes.
- Portuguese Proverb

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
- Mary Norton Gordon

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- Lao Tse

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
- Helen Keller

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed
- Storm Jameson

Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
- Plautus

[UnregisteredOOOPS]

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
- Cherie Carter-Scott
Anyone, any age, can get angry. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
- Confucius

The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.
- Anonymous

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
- Joan Lunden

When you feel "dog tired" at night, it may be because you growled all day.
- Anonymous

The best remedy for anger is delay.
- Brigham Young

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
- Benjamin Franklin

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Elizabeth I


People all over the world get angry, that's one of many things we have in common

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
- Mario Puzo
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
- Epictetus

Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it.
- Chinese Proverb

Anger is a bad adviser.
- French Proverb

Eventually, we hope, we gain the wisdom to deal with anger

Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.
- Aristotle

He who flings mud, loses a lot of ground.
- Anonymous

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.
- Proverbs 29:11

If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.
- Harriet Lerner

Anger helps strengthen out a problem like a fan helps straighten out a pile of papers.
- Susan Mancotte

[UnregisteredHELLO]

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
- Al Franken

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
- Confucius

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
- Cicero

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
- James Anthony Froude

Just because you make a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.
- Georgette Mosbacher

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
- Michael Johnson

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
- Robert Fripp

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes... but that would be a mistake.
- Anonymous

[UnregisteredHAHAHA]

Unite to move forward.
- American Proverb

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
-Alfred North Whitehead

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month.
Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
-Paul J. Meyer

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
-Frederick Douglass

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
-Milan Kundera

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
-Henry Steele Commager

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
-Mark Twain

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
-Oscar Wilde

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
-Don Marquis

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler

Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
- Jose Incenerios

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
- Nicholas Murray Butler

All progress occurs because people dare to be different
- Harry Milner

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice
- St. Francis of Assisi

[UnregisteredSOWHAT]

There is no strength without unity.
- Irish Proverb

A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
- Danish Proverb

A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
- Anonymous

The crocodile is only strong in the water.
- Angolan Proverb

A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
- Canary Island Proverb

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
- John Milton, seventeenth-century English poet

Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
- Chinese Proverb

The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
- Danish Proverb

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
- Saudi Arabian Proverb

[UnregisteredHIDING]

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
- Marianne Williamson, Author/Lecturer

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
- David Thomas

Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
- Ashley E. Hyder

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
- Anonymous

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
- Gorden B. Hinkley

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
–Marian Wright Edelman

…no matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
- Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
- John Andrew Holmes Jr., American writer and minister

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
- Anonymous

The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
- Ivan Scheier

Freely we serve,
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
- John Milton

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
- Sherry Anderson

[UnregisteredSTOPDIRT]

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
- Author unknown

Wisdom helps you to win the game. Think carefully about your next step Temple of Heaven Park, Beijing, China

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much;
Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
- Cowper

Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
–Plato

Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom.
Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you.
- Proverbs 4:7-8

Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
- Biblical Proverb, Proverbs 3:15

Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
- Ghanaian Proverb

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
- Unknown

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- George Santayana

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- Buddha

Statue, Buddhist temple, Shanghai, China

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- Buddha

Never live in the past but always learn from it.
- Anonymous

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

[UnregisteredUNITE]

Don’t shoot for something unattainable – completely outside of your nature or opportunity.
- Michael Johnson

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- Aristotle

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
- Ernest Hemingway

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
- Michael Johnson

The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
- Traditional Proverb

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
- Anna Quindlen

It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
- Rodney Dangerfield

You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
- Michael Johnson

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
- Christy Borgeld

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
- David McCullough

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
- Emily Dickinson

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
- Michael Johnson

To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
- Gerry Spence

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.
- Yiddish Proverb

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success
- Michael Johnson

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michel Montaigne, sixteenth-century French essayist

It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.
- Michael Johnson

[UnregisteredFRIEND]

There will be a day for the oppressor when he will be crushed like garlic.
- Palestinian Proverb

The force of a wave takes everything with it

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
- Lakota Proverb

Force is that which rules the actions without regulating the will.
- Traditional Proverb

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
- Edmund Burke

[UnregisteredPRIDE]

I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
–Henry David Thoreau

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Nelson Mandela, inaugural address, written by Marianne Williamson

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
–William Shedd

Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
–Henry David Thoreau

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
- Kahlil Gibran

Pep without purpose is piffle.
- Anonymous

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
-Hermann Hesse

Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
- Christy Borgeld

Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
- Bill Blackman

Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
-Thomas Kempis

My life is my message.
- Mahatma Ghandi

[UnregisteredFEARLESS]

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
- Anonymous

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Pogo

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
- Jonathan Winters

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
- Tom Peters

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
- Anonymous

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you’ve given yourself.
- Michael Johnson

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
- Anonymous

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Sir Francis Bacon

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Darrell Royal, Sports in America, 1976

[UnregisteredFAB]

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

Take a risk and you will get a reward, although it may not be a medal

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
- Anonymous


One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
- Maya Angelou

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
- Anonymous

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
–Henry Drummond

Firefighters, policemen, they all risk their lives every day. Won't you risk something once and a while?


If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
- Anonymous

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
- Wayne Gretzky

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
–Tony Dorsett

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
- Anonymous

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
- Molly McDonald

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man of courage is also full of faith - Cicero

[UnregisteredDUH]

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
- English Proverb

Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.
- Hasidic Proverb

He who seeks evil will find it.
- French Proverb

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
- Shakti Gawain

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
- Albert Einstein

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
- Max Lerner

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
- Diogenes Laertius

To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.
- Chinese Proverb

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
- Baltasar Gracian, author

Break the legs of an evil custom.
- Italian Proverb

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- Hannah Arendt, author

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
- Unknown

[UnregisteredREADON]

I like to see a man* proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so his place will be proud of him.
- Abraham Lincoln
*and women, too!
- Hearts & Minds

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Ann Landers

It doesn't matter who you are or what you're doing, you must have ethics

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'd rather be right than President.
- Henry Clay

The night is far spent; the day draws near. Let us cast off deeds of darkness and put on the armor or light. Let us live honorably, as in daylight...
- Romans 13:12- 13a

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
- Brigham Young

If you really want to be happy, always try to do what’s right.
- Bill Blackman

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
- Margaret Chase Smith

Honest measures and weights are the Lord's delight.
- The Bible

The imperative is to find what is right and to do it.
- Barbara Jordan, American congresswoman and lawyer

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
- Charles H. Spurgeon, British preacher and writer

Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
- Ralph Bunch, American winner of Nobel Peace Prize

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- Andrew Carnegie

Don't be overwhelmed by decisions. Only consider the ethical ones - you'll find your options are much fewer


I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
- George Washington

Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Because we possess this ministry through God's mercy... we repudiate shameful underhanded practices. We do not resort to trickery or falsify the word of God. We proclaim the truth openly and commend ourselves to every man's conscience before God.
- 2 Corinthians 2

The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

The only thing you can never change is your values.
- Michael Johnson

[UnregisteredANDON]

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City…..Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
- Anatole France

The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.
- Confucius

You are not expected to complete this work, but you are obliged to participate.
- Jewish saying

When we all relate to each other as we would like to receive if our roles are reversed, we move closer to utopia. Every one of us can bring this closer, starting now. This includes how we relate to our own family, our neighbors and how we use our wealth and opportunities to help entire nations that lack our advantages.
- Bill Blackman

[UnregisteredANDON]

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
- Anonymous

Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
- Anonymous

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?"
- Anonymous

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
- Anonymous

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
- Anonymous

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
- Zadok Rabinwitz

Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
- Anonymous

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
- Madeleine Albright

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
- Steven Covey

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Anonymous

Where there is no vision, the people perish.
- Proverbs

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century American civil rights leader

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Thomas Carlyle

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
- Dr. Dale Turner

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
- Anonymous

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
- Michael Johnson

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.

[UnregisteredANDON]

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert Einstein

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
- Miguel de Unamuno

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
- Paul McCartney

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
- Voltaire

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

You must tolerate that which you cannot change.
- Spanish Proverb

Tolerance can lead to learning something.
- Jakob Dylan

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Dalai Lama

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Helen Keller

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
- Anonymous

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart – the best brain.
- Robert Ingersoll

Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place. And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns and no man could head me. And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and hear the lash as well. And ain’t I a woman> I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mothers’ grief, none but Jesus heard me. And ain’t I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“All men are created equal.” “Government by consent of the governed.” “Give me liberty or give me death.” And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
- President Lyndon Johnson

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

[UnregisteredANDON]

A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting.
- Anonymous

Keep trudging or you'll never reach the top


To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
- Anonymous

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
- Bill Blackman

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
- Marian Wright Edelman

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
- John Quincy Adams

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
- Anonymous

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
- Blood of the nnnnnr

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
- Bruce Lee

Most things in life require effort even if, years later, they seem easy

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
- Anonymous

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
- Anonymous

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.
- Thomas S. Monson

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
- Anonymous

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
-Jane Addams

He who seeks rest finds boredom....He who seeks work finds rest.
-Anonymous

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
- St. Francis De Sales

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

[UnregisteredANDON]

For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
- Donald Williams

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
- Margaret Laurence

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
- Bishop Desmond Tutu

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
- Pearl S. Buck

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
- Karl Marx

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-Douglas Adams

Every human heart is human.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
- Muhammad Yunus

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
- Herman Hesse

If we all tired to make other people’s paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
- Myrtle Reed, American writer

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
- Buddha, Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
- Emma Lazarus, American poet: inscription on the Statue of Liberty, New York

Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
- The Dalai Lama

[UnregisteredANDON]

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Leighton


A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
- Anonymous

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
- Anonymous

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
- Anonymous

Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right?
- I Peter

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
-George S. Patton

Adventure is worthwhile.
-Amelia Earhart

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. Marine

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
-William Ellery Channing

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
- Brian Weir

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
- Greek Proverb

We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
- Sister Busche

Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness

Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
- James 1:24, RSV

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
- Phyllis Battome

[UnregisteredANDON]

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. - Matthew 5:9
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
- Romans 12:18

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
- John Milton, seventeenth-century English poet

Follow peace with all men.
- Hebrews 12:14

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein

To excel in football you must act quickly

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
- Proverb

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Shira Tehrani

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
- Lucy Larcom

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
- Ella Williams

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
- Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
- Hugh Prather

[UnregisteredIMNOT]

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling

Although not every choice you make is about directions, all choices will influence where you end up

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
- John H. Patterson

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
- Karl Kraus

Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
- Bill Blackman


The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
- Abbé D'Allanival

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
- Rene Dubos

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
- John W. Turk

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
- Robert H. Schuller

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
- Isaac Asimov

A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
- Chinese Proverb

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
- Roy Disney

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
- Marion G. Romney

Making bad choices today will create skeletons in your closet tomorrow.
- Christy Borgeld

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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

There's nothing as beautiful as the happiness of a child

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
- Madame De Maintenon

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
- Dick Gregory

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
- Anonymous

Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.
- Indian Proverb

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
- Chinese Proverb

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
- Hasidic Proverb

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
- Spanish Proverb

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
- Berthold Auerbach

The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
- Leo Rosten, American teacher and humorist

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret B. Runbeck

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
- Anonymous

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
- Ray Lyman Wilbur

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers

A landscape like this could cheer anyone up

May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift

Happiness is a state of activity.
- Aristotle

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
- Anonymous

[UnregisteredANDON]

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
- Matthew 7:7-8 (see also verses 9 -12)

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."
- Mark 11:22-24

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey

All consumed are their imperfections,
Doubts are dispelled, their senses mastered,
Their every action is wed to the welfare of their fellow creatures:
Such are the seers who enter Brahman* and know Nirvana*.
- Bhagavad Gita, chapter 5
*(Brahman may be translated as Spirit and Nirvana as the highest state of spiritual being)

[God says], do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
- Isaiah 41:10 (New International Version)

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde, author

For I am mindful of the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. You call upon me and come and pray to me, and I heed you. You seek Me and find Me: Now you seek Me with all your heart and I am at hand for you, says the Lord...
- Jeremiah 29:11-14a; Matthew 7:7

If you keep sincerely asking for what's best, God will give you a very good chance to achieve it - even if you don't believe in God!
- Bill Blackman

God will always open another door for you

If you fear God, you won't fear humans.
- Albanian Proverb

A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle.
- Latin Proverb

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Dalai Lama

You have to believe in gods to see them.
- Hopi Indian Proverb

Better to be guilty in the eyes of men than in the eyes of God.
- Malagasy Proverb

He who doesn't speak will get no help from God.
- Mexican Proverb

I believe in God but I’d much rather live with people who care about each other than those who only care about God or heaven.
- Bill Blackman

I will cause you to walk in the straight way...
I will open to you the gates of righteousness..
For whoever finds Me, finds life
- Psalm 118:19; Proverbs. 8: 35-6

[UnregisteredANDON]

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother?
- Christy Borgeld

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
- Virginia Satir

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
- Brigham Young

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
- Kim Rohn

Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
- Christy Borgeld

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
- Richard Bach

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
- Terence

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
- Mary MacCracken
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
- Abigail Van Buren

Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.
- David Bly

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
- Harold Hulbert

Fathers are like a lighthouse… when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
- Christy Borgeld

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
- Chinese Proverb

Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
- Christy Borgeld

Children are the reward of life.
- Congolese Proverb

My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
- Hebrew Proverb

The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
- Christy Borgeld

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
- Thomas Szasz

It takes a whole village to raise a child.
- African Proverb

Adults are dead children
- Michael Brown

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction - Anne Sullivan

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him ‘father.’
- Lydia Maria Child

[UnregisteredMEAGAIN]

Quarrels wouldn't last as long, if the fault was only on one side.
- La Rochefoucauld

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed.
- Madame Necker

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
- Andre Gide

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
- St. Francis De Sales

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
- Margaret Thatcher

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
- Joseph Farrell

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Never argue; repeat your assertion.
- Robert Owen

The quarrel of the sheep doesn't concern the goats.
- African Proverb

Who seeks a quarrel will find it near at hand.
- Italian Proverb

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.
- Spanish Proverb

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
- Thomas C. Haliburton

[UnregisteredHEY]

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
- Alan Watts


Old love does not rust.
- Estonian Proverb

Love sees roses without thorns.
- German Proverb

In love beggar and king are equal.
- Indian Proverb

Are we to love only those who deserve our love? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 5:43-45

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
- Japanese Proverb

No fate is worse than a life without a love.
- Mexican Proverb

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be
shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind.
Think big anyway.
What you spend years building may
be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack if you help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have
and you might get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
- Anonymous

Love understands all languages.
- Romanian Proverb

Perfect love cannot be without equality.
- Scottish Proverb

All work is empty save when there is love.
- Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
- William M. Thackeray

And now I will show you the most excellent way:
If I speak in tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give up all I possess and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; it does not envy; it does not boast; it is not proud. It is not rude; it is not self-seeking; it is not easily angered; it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will pass away; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.
- I Corinthians, chapter 13

The entire law is summed up in a single command, "Love your neighbor as yourself."
- Galatians 5:14 (NIV)

It is love that makes the impossible possible.
- Indian Proverb

Where there is love there is no darkness.
- Burundi Proverb

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
- Anne-Sophie Swetchine
All love at first, like generous wine,
Ferments and frets until ‘tis fine;
But when ‘tis settled on the lee,
And from th’ impurer matter free,
Become the richer still the older,
And proves the pleasanter the colder.
- Samuel Butler

Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
- The Book of Proverbs

[UnregisteredHOLA]

tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you.
- Matthew 17:20

When you believe in things that you don’t understand then you suffer.
- Stevie Wonder, twentieth-century American singer

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.
- Bruce Springsteen, twentieth-century American singer

Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. Unshakable faith is faith that has been shaken.
- Unknown

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
- Confucius

For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight;
His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right:
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind’s concern is charity.
- Alexander Pope

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
- Voltaire

[UnregisteredALOHA]

A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting.
- Anonymous

Keep trudging or you'll never reach the top


To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
- Anonymous

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
- Bill Blackman

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
- Marian Wright Edelman

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
- John Quincy Adams

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
- Anonymous

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
- Blood of the nnnnnr

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
- Bruce Lee

Most things in life require effort even if, years later, they seem easy

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
- Anonymous

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
- Anonymous

The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.
- Thomas S. Monson

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
- Anonymous

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
-Jane Addams

He who seeks rest finds boredom....He who seeks work finds rest.
-Anonymous

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
- St. Francis De Sales

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

[UnregisteredYAAU]

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
- Louis L. Mann

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
- William George Jordan

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
- David O. McKay

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- L. A. Rouchefolicauld

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
- David O. McKay

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
- Anonymous

There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
- Anonymous

The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
- Anonymous

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Anonymous

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?
- Anonymous

Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
- Charles Reade

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
- Anonymous

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
- Marcus Aurelius

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
- By Michael Johnson

[UnregisteredREADON]

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
- Robert Schuller

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.
- Dr. David M. Burns

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
- Anne Lamott

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
- David M. Burns

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
- Thomas J. Watson

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
- W. Somerset Maugham

I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
- Anne Lamott

A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
- Chinese Proverb

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas a Kempis


No one is perfect..that’s why pencils have erasers
- Author Unknown

Gold cannot be pure and people cannot be perfect
- Chinese proverb

They say that nobody is perfect.Then they tell you that practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.
- Wilt Chamberlain

As long as you live, keep learning how to live
- Seneca

Have no fear of perfection-you’ll never reach it
- Salvador Dali

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out
- Martha Graham

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He who has hope has everything.
- Arabian Proverb

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
- Vaclav Havel

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
- Matthew Prior

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
- Emily Dickenson

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
- St. Clement of Alexandra

He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
- Isaiah 40:29-31

Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
- Anonymous

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed - Tom Clancy

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

Kindness is always fashionable.
- America E. Barr, British American writer

No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
- Aesop, Greek fabulist

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert, French philosopher

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
- William Makepeace Thackeray, British Writer

A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
- Islamic Proverb

Kind words conquer.
- Tamil Proverb

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, "I want you to be happy.
- Randolph Ray

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
- Emmanuel Swedenborg

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
- Seneca

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin

It is never too late to be what we might have been
- George Eliot

Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
- Emma Goldman

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver

Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
- C.N. Bovee

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- The Dalai Lama

Be the change you want to see in the world
- Ghandi


Do not wait for leaders-do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King

Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it

If you want peace, you must work for justice.
- Pope Paul VI

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
- Oscar Aria

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of Justice.
- Martin Luther King

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and love mercy and walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
- James Shirley (1596-1666)

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
- Earl Warren
Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical….Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.
- Blaise Pascal

True justice is fair and balanced - also free of our own inner biases

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
- Barbara Hall
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- Matthew 5:6

The first duty of society is justice.
- Alexander Hamilton

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
- Plato

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What worth has beauty if it is not seen?
- Italian Proverb

Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream.
- Walloon Proverb

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not want　only destroy.
- Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
- Salma Hayek

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
- Turkish Proverb

Beauty is the gift of God.
- Aristotle

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Joseph Addison

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
- D.H. Lawrence

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head
- Proverbs 20:29

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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Anonymous

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
- Chinese Proverb

Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
- Japanese Proverb

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 4: 4-7

A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
- Anonymous

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
- Chuck Sigars

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
- Jerry Van Amerongen

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
- Melba Colgrove

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
- John Buchan

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
- Carl Sandburg

Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
- Kahlil Gibran

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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

It's okay to mourn your failure, but never ever give up

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
- Anonymous

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
- Jim Rohn

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
- Zig Ziglar

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
- Thomas A. Edison

You haven't failed until you quit trying.
- Anonymous

Success is the proper utilization of failure.
- Anonymous

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
- Erich Fromm

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
- Anne Sophie Swetchine

Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
- Afghan Proverb

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Seneca

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
- Chinese Proverb

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
- A. P. Gouthey

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
- W. R. Inge

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- Laertius Diogenes

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
- Mohammed

Adversity it sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
- Thomas Carlyle

Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
- African Proverb

My friends are my estate.
- Emily Dickinson

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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
- John Heywood, sixteenth-century English poet

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is
our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most...We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson, American author and lecturer
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
- Nigerien Proverb

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
- Allard Lowenstein, twentieth-century American diplomat

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in...
- Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States

Ability is sexless.
- Christabel Pankhurst

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb

You must motivate yourself EVERYDAY.
- Matthew Stasior

The best motivation always comes from within.
- Michael Johnson

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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
- Jim Rohn

Training a dog demands discipline from the dog - and the owner

No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
- Anonymous

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
- Anonymous

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
- Anonymous

He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
- Proverbs

There is no luck except where there is discipline.
- Irish Proverb

If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.
- Anonymous

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
- Anonymous

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
- Michael Johnson

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
- Prentice

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or in anything else, for that matter.
- Lee Iacocca, twentieth-century businessman

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
- Icelandic Proverb

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
- Anonymous

The basis of self-discipline: Don’t allow the edges to blur.

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Large crowds gather to demonstrate for democracy and vote in Africa

Democracy is the ultimate, positive revolution because it gives each and every individual the power to control their lives. And we can work together to create a just, sustainable world.
- Bill Blackman

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
- Albert Moravia

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
- Abbie Hoffman

Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
- Abraham Lincoln

Those who love peace must learn to organize as well as those who love war.
- Dr. Martin Luther King



"Liberty and equality...will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost"
- Aristotle

What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude – and a lot less greed.
- Michelle Malkin

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. -Thomas Jefferson

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
- Alexis De Tocqueville

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
- William J. Bennett

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to kept that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson

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The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
- Anonymous

Either you run the day or the day runs you.
- Jim Rohn

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
- Alexander Pope

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.
- Jane Porter

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Interdependency follows independence.
- Stephen Covey

Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice. Not something to wish for but to attain.
- William Jennings Bryan

If I am not for myself, who will be? And if I am for myself alone, then what am I? And if not now, when?
- Rabbi Hillel, Pirke Avot 1:14

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Bohemia is located in New York at 40°46′12″N, 73°6′50″W (40.770042, -73.113760)[1].

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.8 square miles (22.7 km²), of which, 8.7 square miles (22.6 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.34%) is water.


[edit] Demographics
As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 9,871 people, 3,326 households, and 2,554 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,131.3 per square mile (436.6/km²). There were 3,387 housing units at an average density of 388.2/sq mi (149.8/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 94.61% White, 0.86% African American, 0.05% Native American, 2.38% Asian, 0.83% from other races, and 1.27% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.41% of the population.

There were 3,326 households out of which 34.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.9% were married couples living together, 9.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.2% were non-families. 18.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.86 and the average family size was 3.28.

In the CDP the population was spread out with 23.2% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 31.9% from 25 to 44, 25.0% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 98.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.7 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $65,308, and the median income for a family was $73,218. Males had a median income of $46,449 versus $34,403 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $25,942. About 3.2% of families and 3.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 9.8% of those age 65 or over.


[edit] History
Bohemia, Long Island was founded in 1855. It was named Bohemia because it was settled by Slavic immigrants from a mountainous village near Kadam in the Eastern European province of Bohemia. An important contribution they made to the development of Long Island was adding their rich Eastern European folklore to the local culture.

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Cancer (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood). These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize. Most cancers form a tumor but some, like leukemia, do not. The branch of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer is oncology.

Cancer may affect people at all ages, even fetuses, but the risk for most varieties increases with age.[1] Cancer causes about 13% of all deaths.[2] According to the American Cancer Society, 7.6 million people died from cancer in the world during 2007.[3] Cancers can affect all animals.

Nearly all cancers are caused by abnormalities in the genetic material of the transformed cells. These abnormalities may be due to the effects of carcinogens, such as tobacco smoke, radiation, chemicals, or infectious agents. Other cancer-promoting genetic abnormalities may be randomly acquired through errors in DNA replication, or are inherited, and thus present in all cells from birth. The heritability of cancers are usually affected by complex interactions between carcinogens and the host's genome. New aspects of the genetics of cancer pathogenesis, such as DNA methylation, and microRNAs are increasingly recognized as important.

Genetic abnormalities found in cancer typically affect two general classes of genes. Cancer-promoting oncogenes are typically activated in cancer cells, giving those cells new properties, such as hyperactive growth and division, protection against programmed cell death, loss of respect for normal tissue boundaries, and the ability to become established in diverse tissue environments. Tumor suppressor genes are then inactivated in cancer cells, resulting in the loss of normal functions in those cells, such as accurate DNA replication, control over the cell cycle, orientation and adhesion within tissues, and interaction with protective cells of the immune system.

Diagnosis usually requires the histologic examination of a tissue biopsy specimen by a pathologist, although the initial indication of malignancy can be symptoms or radiographic imaging abnormalities. Most cancers can be treated and some cured, depending on the specific type, location, and stage. Once diagnosed, cancer is usually treated with a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. As research develops, treatments are becoming more specific for different varieties of cancer. There has been significant progress in the development of targeted therapy drugs that act specifically on detectable molecular abnormalities in certain tumors, and which minimize damage to normal cells. The prognosis of cancer patients is most influenced by the type of cancer, as well as the stage, or extent of the disease. In addition, histologic grading and the presence of specific molecular markers can also be useful in establishing prognosis, as well as in determining individual treatments.

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Winnie-the-Pooh, commonly shortened to Pooh Bear and once referred to as Edward Bear, is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. The character first appeared in book form in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included several poems about Winnie-the-Pooh in the children’s poetry books When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

The hyphens in the character's name were later dropped when The Walt Disney Company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of Winnie the Pooh featurettes that became one of the company's most successful franchises worldwide.

The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, notably including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the first foreign-language book to be featured on the New York Times Bestseller List, and is the only book in Latin ever to have been featured therein.

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Barney was created in 1987 by Sheryl Leach of Dallas, Texas. She came up with the idea for the program while considering TV shows that she felt would be educational and appeal to her son. Leach then brought together a team who created a series of home videos, Barney and the Backyard Gang, which also starred actress Sandy Duncan in the first 3 videos. Later, Barney was joined by the characters Baby Bop, BJ, and Riff.

Although the original videos were a modest regional success, Barney only became a major success when the character and format were revamped for series television and picked up by the Public Broadcasting Service, debuting as "Barney & Friends" in 1992. The series was produced by Lyrick Studios (bought by HIT Entertainment) and Connecticut Public Television. For several years, the show was taped at the ColorDynamics Studios facility at Greenville Avenue & Bethany Drive in Allen, after which it moved to The Studios at Las Colinas, Texas. Currently, the series is produced in a northern suburb of Dallas. The TV series and videos are currently distributed by HIT Entertainment.

Barney & Friends is now shown in other countries where it is translated if necessary. One such example is the Spanish language version produced in Mexico which is called Barney y Sus Amigos, (Spanish translation of "Barney & his Friends.") Another example is the Hebrew production produced in 1997 in Israel, which redoes the Season 1 episodes of the American show instead of dubbing the show. The only way you can see this version now is by getting the DVDs by Clasikaletet.


Criticism
The show has been criticized for its lack of educational value[citation needed]. However, studies conducted by Yale researchers Dorothy and Jerome Singer have confirmed that episodes actually contain a great deal of age-appropriate educational material, calling the program a "model of what preschool television should be."[1]

The Lyons Partnership v. Ted Giannoula (179 F.3d 384) summary document states on paragraph 9: "Perhaps the most insightful criticism regarding Barney is that his shows do not assist children in learning to deal with negative feelings and emotions. As one commentator puts it, the real danger from Barney is "denial: the refusal to recognize the existence of unpleasant realities. For along with his steady diet of giggles and unconditional love, Barney offers our children a one-dimensional world where everyone must be happy and everything must be resolved right away." Chala Willig Levy, The Bad News About Barney, Parents, Feb. 1994, at 191-92 (136-39)."

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Bert and Ernie were built by Don Sahlin from a simple design scribbled by Muppets creator Jim Henson. According to Frank Oz, Sahlin also defined their characters on the basis of their physical appearance: Ernie was an orange and Bert was a banana.

According to A&E's Biography, Ernie and Bert were the only Muppets to appear in the Sesame Street pilot episode, which was screen tested to a number of families in July 1969. Their brief appearance was the only part of the pilot that tested well, so it was decided that not only should Muppet characters be the "stars" of the show, but would also interact with the human characters, something that was not done in the pilot.


[edit] Bert
Main article: Bert (Sesame Street)
Bert was originally performed by Frank Oz. Since 2001, Muppeteer Eric Jacobson has been phased in as Bert's primary performer.

Bert, though intelligent, is also grumpy, boring and easily frustrated. He enjoys activities such as paper clip and bottle cap collecting, cooking oatmeal and watching pigeons. In one sketch, Bert reads a book called "Boring Stories" and chuckles, "Boy, these Boring Stories are really exciting!" In the book Sesame Street Unpaved, Frank Oz says, "I was never really happy with Bert's character until about a year in, when I realized... that he was a very boring character, and I'd use that weakness as a strength for him." On a 2007 episode of Martha Stewart's TV program, in a sidelong reference to Tommy Newsom of Tonight Show fame, Bert was ironically described as "Mr. Excitement" by pal Cookie Monster.

Bert is good friends with a pigeon named Bernice, and has even created a dance called "Doin' the Pigeon". Bert serves as President of the National Association of W Lovers, a club dedicated to the letter W. Two conventions held by the W Lovers have been shown on the show. Bert also has pet goldfish, two of whom are named Lyle and Talbot, a reference to the actor Lyle Talbot. Bert has a twin brother, Bart; a nephew, Brad; and an Aunt Matilda.

The age of Bert and Ernie is regularly discussed on forums. Nothing official has ever been said, but most consider the duo adults, as they do not appear to be highly dependent on others. Helping suggestions of the characters being young is a comment by Sesame Street Live performer Taylor Morgan. Morgan said to the Macon Telegraph that "I just kind of try to think like a 6-year-old or 7-year-old, because that's how old Bert is."[1]


[edit] Ernie
Main article: Ernie
Ernie was originally performed by Jim Henson. Since 1993, Muppeteer Steve Whitmire took on the role of Ernie following the death of Henson in 1990.

Ernie is well known for his fondness for baths with his Rubber duck and for having trouble trying to learn to play the saxophone because he would not "put down the duckie." The Rubber Ducky song is well known throughout the world. Children can visit Ernie at "Sesame Place," in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.

Ernie is a "live hands puppet", meaning that while operating the head of the puppet with his right hand, the puppeteer inserts his left hand into a T-shaped sleeve, capped off with a glove that matches the fabric "skin" of the puppet, thus "becoming" the left arm of the puppet. A second puppeteer usually provides the right arm.

Ernie's performance of "Rubber Duckie," wherein he sings affectionately about his squeaking toy duck and the joy it brings him during bathtime, became a modest mainstream hit, reaching No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1970.[2]


[edit] Comedy routines
A typical Bert and Ernie skit follows one of two similar patterns, both beginning with Ernie devising a hare-brained idea and Bert calmly attempting to talk him out of it. Usually this ends with Bert losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad idea. Sometimes Ernie's idea miraculously turns out to be correct, much to Bert's evident frustration.

An example of a Bert and Ernie skit is the banana in my ear joke:

Bert: "Hey, you've got a banana in your ear!"
Ernie: "What?"
Bert: "I said, YOU'VE GOT A BANANA IN YOUR EAR!"
Ernie: "What? I can't hear you; I've got a banana in my ear!"
Bert: "Hey, you've got a banana in your ear!"
Ernie: "I know, I'm keeping the alligator away."
Bert: "But there aren't any alligators on Sesame Street!"
Ernie: "I know, it's working!"

[edit] Rumors and misconceptions

Bert and Ernie shown as being married at the 2008 Chicago gay pride parade.In 1997, the parody website "Bert is Evil" displayed Bert in a number of doctored photographs, implicating him in crimes ranging from the John F. Kennedy assassination to those of Jack the Ripper. A similar image from another source and featuring Bert conferring with Osama bin Laden was mistakenly included by a Bangladeshi print shop on a series of protest signs in late 2001 and 2002. [3]

Characters named Bert and Ernie appear in the film It's a Wonderful Life as a policeman and a taxi driver, respectively, though the use of the names by Henson is said to be a coincidence.[4] In the movie Elmo Saves Christmas, Sesame pokes fun at this.[citation needed]

Ernie and Bert share an apartment in the basement of 123 Sesame Street. Although they sleep in separate beds, this has led some to suggest that they are representations of gay lovers since they share a bedroom.[5] This is denied by Sesame Workshop, the corporation that owns the show and the characters, but the idea is sufficiently widespread that it has been used as the basis of jokes by Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, American Dad! and the Broadway play "Avenue Q".[citation needed]

Some of Bert's interactions with female characters appear to show that he is attracted to women. Bert serenades Connie Stevens in the Some Enchanted Evening segment of a Season One episode of The Muppet Show. Bert also recorded a song about his girlfriend, I Want to Hold Your Ear, which was released on several albums.

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Big Bird is a full-body Muppet, featured on the children's television show Sesame Street, which airs on PBS. He is sometimes referred to as "Bird" by his friends.[2]

Officially performed by Carroll Spinney since 1969, he is an eight-foot two-inch tall bright yellow canary.[3] He can roller skate, ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw and even ride a unicycle. But despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one big long word, pondering what it could ever mean.[4] He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and he has a teddy bear named Radar, which is a nod to Walter "Radar" O'Reilly of M*A*S*H, who had a teddy bear and was also lovably naive and innocent. Also, Radar was given to Big Bird by Gary Burghoff (who played Radar on M*A*S*H) when he guest starred on the show.[5][6] Later on, however, it was said that Big Bird got the bear as a gift from Mr. Hooper.[

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The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was an event held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel (Sullivan County) is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the village of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.

The festival exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s – early 1970s and the "hippie era". Thirty-two of the best-known musicians of the day appeared during the sometimes rainy weekend. Although attempts have been made over the years to recreate the festival, the original event has proven to be unique and legendary. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history and was listed on Rolling Stone's 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll. [1]

The event was captured in a successful 1970 documentary movie, Woodstock; an accompanying soundtrack album; and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

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Frostbite (congelatio in medical terminology) is the medical condition whereby damage is caused to skin and other tissues due to extreme cold. At or below 0º C (32ºF), blood vessels close to the skin start to narrow (constrict). This helps to preserve core body temperature. In extreme cold or when the body is exposed to cold for long periods, this protective strategy can reduce blood flow in some areas of the body to dangerously low levels. The areas where this occurs will freeze over. The combination of cold temperature and poor blood flow can cause severe tissue injury by freezing the tissue. Frostbite is most likely to happen in body parts farthest from the heart, and those with a lot of surface area exposed to cold. The initial stages of frostbite are sometimes called "frostnip". Mountains or high altitudes with snow are most dangerous to cause frostbite. If frostbite is not treated immediately then the damage and the frostbite become permanent. Nerve damage will occur due to oxygen deprivation. Frostbitten areas will turn discolored, purplish at first, and soon turn black. After a while nerve damage becomes so great that feeling is lost in the frostbitten areas. Blisters will also occur. If feeling is lost in the damaged area, checking it for cuts and breaks in the skin is vital. Infected open skin can lead to gangrene and amputation may be needed.

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Ticks are blood-feeding parasites that are often found in tall grass and shrubs where they will wait to attach to a passing host. Physical contact is the only method of transportation for ticks. Ticks do not jump or fly, although they may drop from their perch and fall onto a host. Some species actively stalk the host by foot.

Changes in temperature and day length are some of the factors signaling a tick to seek a host. Ticks can detect heat emitted or carbon dioxide respired from a nearby host. They will generally drop off the animal when full, but this may take several days. In some cases, ticks will live for some time on the blood of an animal. Ticks have a harpoon-like structure in their mouth area, known as a hypostome, that allows them to anchor themselves firmly in place while feeding. The hypostome has a series of barbs angled back, which is why they are so difficult to remove once they have penetrated a host. Ticks can be found in most wooded or forested areas throughout the world. They are especially common in areas where there are deer trails or horse paths.

Some of the more common diseases that can be contracted from a tick bite include (listed alphabetically): Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Southern tick-associated rash illness, Tick-borne relapsing fever, and Tularemia.


[edit] Population control

[edit] Case Study of the American Deer Tick
The blacklegged or deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) is dependent on the white-tailed deer for successful reproduction. Larval and nymph stages (immature ticks that cannot reproduce) of the deer tick feed on birds and small mammals. The adult female tick needs a large 3 day blood meal from the deer before she can reproduce and lay her 2000 or more eggs. Deer are the primary host for the adult deer tick and are key to the reproductive success of the tick.[2] .[citation needed] See the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and Connecticut Department of Public Health joint publication "Tick Management Handbook" [3] for more details of the tick's life cycle and dependence on deer.

Numerous studies have shown that abundance and distribution of deer ticks are correlated with deer densities.[2][4][5][6] For example when the deer population was reduced by 74% at a 248-acre (1.00 km²) study site in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the number of nymphal ticks collected at the site decreased by 92%.[2] Furthermore, the relationship between deer abundance, tick abundance, and human cases of Lyme disease was well documented in the Mumford Cove Community in Groton, Connecticut, from 1996 to 2004. The deer population in Mumford Cove was reduced from about 77 deer per square mile to about 10 deer per square mile after 2 years of controlled hunting. After the initial reduction the deer population was maintained at low levels. Reducing deer densities to 10 deer per square mile was adequate to reduce by more than 90% the risk of humans contracting Lyme disease in Mumford Cove.[7] Deer population management must serve as the main tool in any long-term strategy to reduce human incidences of Lyme disease.[8]

A method of reducing deer tick (Ixodes scapularis/dammini) populations - Damminix [2] - may be cited. It consists of biodegradable cardboard tubes stuffed with permethrin-treated cotton and works in the following way: Mice collect the cotton for lining their nests. The pesticide on the cotton kills any immature ticks that are feeding on the mice. It is important to put the tubes where mice will find them, such as in dense, dark brush or at the base of a log; mice are unlikely to gather the cotton from an open lawn. Best results are obtained with regular applications early in the spring and again in late summer. The more neighbors who also use Damminix, the better. Damminix appears to help control tick populations, particularly in the year following initial use. Note that it is not effective on the West Coast. See UMM Patient Education Link.

A potential alternative to Damminix's permethrin is fipronil. It is used in the Maxforce Tick Management system, in which fipronil is painted onto rodents visiting the plastic baitboxes. see[3]. This system is no longer generally available for sale by Bayer. In 2005, there were selective reports of grey squirrels "chewing" into some Maxforce TMS boxes in areas of the northeastern United States, compromising the child resistant box. Due to this problem, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asked that all similarly designed TMS boxes applied in 2006 be covered with a protective shroud capable of preventing squirrel damage. The Maxforce TMS system remains registered by the federal EPA for its continued use. A metal shroud has been developed and is reportedly in use to eliminate any potential squirrel damage to the plastic box. This shroud reportedly satisfies the EPA's mandate to protect the boxes from such damage and is recommended by Bayer Environmental Science. Availability however outside of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island may be minimal.


[edit] Other Control Measures
Also, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers advice on reducing ticks around your home. [4]

The parasitic Ichneumon wasp Ixodiphagus hookeri has long been investigated for its potential to control tick populations. It lays its eggs into ticks; the hatching wasps kill its host.

Another "natural" form of control for ticks is the Guineafowl. They consume mass quantities of ticks.[citation needed] Just 2 birds can clear 2 acres (8,100 m²) in a single year.

Topical (drops/dust) flea/tick medicines need to be used with care. Phenothrin (85.7%) in combination with Methopren was a popular topical flea/tick therapy for felines. Phenothrin kills adult fleas and ticks. Methoprene is an insect growth regulator that interrupts the insect's life cycle by killing the eggs. However, the EPA has made at least one manufacturer of these products withdraw some products and include strong cautionary statements on others, warning of adverse reactions.[9]

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The location of the parts of the colon are either in the abdominal cavity or behind it in the retroperitoneum. The colon in those areas is fixed in location.

Arterial supply to the colon comes from branches of the superior and inferior mesenteric arteries. Flow between these two systems communicates via a "marginal artery" that runs parallel to the colon for its entire length. Historically, it has been believed that the arc of Riolan, or the meandering mesenteric artery (of Moskowitz), is a variable vessel connecting the proximal SMA to the proximal IMA that can be extremely important if either vessel is occluded. However, recent studies conducted with improved imaging technology have questioned the actual existence of this vessel, with some experts calling for the abolition of the terms from future medical literature.

Venous drainage usually mirrors colonic arterial supply, with the inferior mesenteric vein draining into the splenic vein, and the superior mesenteric vein joining the splenic vein to form the portal vein that then enters the liver.

Lymphatic drainage from the entire colon and proximal two-thirds of the rectum is to the paraortic nodes that then drain into the cisterna chyli. The lymph from the remaining rectum and anus can either follow the same route, or drain to the internal illiac and superficial inguinal nodes. The dentate line only roughly marks this transition.


[edit] Ascending colon
The ascending colon, on the right side of the abdomen, is about 12.5 cm long. It is the part of the colon from the cecum to the hepatic flexure (the turn of the colon by the liver). It is retroperitoneal in most humans. In ruminant grazing animals the cecum empties into the spiral colon. Anteriorly it is related to the coils of small intestine, the right edge of the greater omentum, and the anterior abdominal wall. Posteriorly, it is related to the iliacus, the iliolumbar ligament, the quadratus lumborum, the transverse abdominis, the diaphragm at the tip o


[edit] Function
The large intestine comes after the small intestine in the digestive tract and measures approximately 1.5 meters in length. Although there are differences in the large intestine between different organisms, the large intestine is mainly responsible for storing waste, reclaiming water, maintaining the water balance, and absorbing some vitamins, such as vitamin K.

By the time the chyme has reached this tube, almost all nutrients and 90% of the water have been absorbed by the body. At this point some electrolytes like sodium, magnesium, and chloride are left as well as indigestible carbohydrates known as dietary fiber. As the chyme moves through the large intestine, most of the remaining water is removed, while the chyme is mixed with mucus and bacteria known as gut flora, and becomes feces. The bacteria break down some of the fiber for their own nourishment and create acetate, propionate, and butyrate as waste products, which in turn are used by the cell lining of the colon for nourishment. This is an example of a symbiotic relationship and provides about one hundred calories a day to the body. The large intestine produces no digestive enzymes — chemical digestion is completed in the small intestine before the chyme reaches the large intestine. The pH in the colon varies between 5.5 and 7 (slightly acidic to neutral).


[edit] Pathology
There are a number of diseases or disorders of the colon:

Angiodysplasia of the colon
Chronic functional abdominal pain
Colitis
Colon cancer
Constipation
Crohn's disease
Diarrhea
Diverticulitis
Diverticulosis
Hirschsprung's disease (aganglionosis)
Intussusception
Irritable bowel syndrome
Polyposis (see also Colorectal polyp)
Pseudomembranous colitis
Ulcerative colitis and toxic megacolon

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It grows throughout much of North America, including all Canadian provinces except Newfoundland (but not the Territories) and all U.S. states except Alaska, Hawai‘i, and California, and is normally found in wooded areas, especially along edge areas. It also grows in exposed rocky areas and in open fields and disturbed areas. It also grows as a forest understory plant, although it is only somewhat shade tolerant[1]. The plant is extremely common in suburban and exurban areas of New England, the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. It rarely grows at altitudes above 1,500 meters (5,000 ft), although the altitude limit varies in different locations[1]. The plants can grow as a shrub up to about 1.2 meters (4 ft) tall, as a groundcover 10–25 centimeters (4–10 in) high, or as a climbing vine on various supports. Older vines on substantial supports send out lateral branches that may at first be mistaken for tree limbs.

It is not particularly sensitive to soil moisture, although it does not grow in desert or arid conditions. It grows in a wide variety of soil types, and soil pH from 6.0 (acidic) to 7.9 (moderately alkaline). It can grow in areas subject to seasonal flooding or brackish water.[1]

It is more common now than when Europeans first entered North America. Real estate development adjacent to wild, undeveloped land has engendered "edge effects," enabling poison ivy to form vast, lush colonies in such places. It is listed as a noxious weed in the U.S. states of Minnesota and Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario.


[edit] Characteristic appearance

Poison ivy flowers
Box Elder on the left, poison ivy on the right
Poison ivy vine with typical reddish "hairs"The leaves are ternate with three almond-shaped leaflets. The berries (actually drupes) are a grayish-white color and are a favorite winter food of some birds. This is the basis of mnemonics such as "Leaves of three, let it be; leaves of four, eat some more"; variants include "... hairy vine, no friend of mine",[2] "... berries white, run in fright" and "... berries white, danger in sight".[3]

The color ranges from light green (usually the younger leaves) to dark green (mature leaves), turning bright red in fall. The leaflets of mature leaves are somewhat shiny. The leaflets are 3-12 cm long, rarely up to 30 cm. Each leaflet has a few or no teeth along its edge, and the leaf surface is smooth. Leaflet clusters are alternate on the vine, and the plant has no thorns. These three characteristics: (a) clusters of three leaflets, (b) alternate, and (c) lack of thorns, are sufficient to positively identify the plant. If it is growing up the trunk of a tree, the presence of copious root-hairs will identify it,[4] leading to the "hairy vine, no friend of mine" warning.

Poison ivy spreads both vegetatively and sexually. The vines put down adventitious roots, or the plant can spread from rhizomes or root crowns. The plant flowers in May to July and produces mature fruits by August to November. Seeds are spread mainly by animals, and are viable after passing through the digestive tract of birds.[1]


[edit] Effects on the body
Main article: Urushiol-induced contact dermatitis
The reaction caused by poison-ivy, urushiol-induced contact dermatitis, is an allergic reaction. Around 15%[5] to 30%[6] of people have no allergic response, but most if not all will become sensitized over time with repeated or more concentrated exposure to urushiol. Note that reactions that worsen over time may progress to anaphylaxis and can therefore be dangerous, even life-threatening.

For those who are affected by urushiol, it causes a very irritating rash. In extreme cases, corticosteroids can be needed to treat rashes and severe itching. The first symptom of contact is a severe itching of the skin that develops into reddish colored inflammation or non-colored bumps, and then blistering of the skin occurs. In severe cases, clear fluids ooze from open blistered sores. Once the urushiol poison has had contact with the skin, it is quickly bound to the skin.

The oozing fluids released by itching blisters do not spread the poison. The appearance of a spreading rash indicates that some areas received more of the poison and reacted sooner than other areas. The blisters and oozing result from blood vessels that develop gaps and leak fluid through the skin; if the skin is cooled, the vessels constrict and leak less. If poison ivy is burned and the smoke then inhaled, this rash will appear on the lining of the lungs, causing extreme pain and possibly fatal respiratory difficulty. If poison ivy is eaten, the digestive tract, airway, kidneys or other organs can be damaged.

Understanding why new lesions may develop for two weeks (studied on forearm) after one exposure was made clear by a University of Miami scientist: larger amounts have earliest onset and largest reaction, smallest produce a delayed reaction. The overall severity 'progresses' with the combined active lesions. Therefore, the last new lesion should occur at two weeks after last exposure, the total rash (untreated) may go on for 3-4 weeks.

Urushiol oil can remain active for several years, so handling dead leaves or vines can cause a reaction. In addition, oil transferred from the plant to other objects (such as pet fur) can cause the rash if it comes into contact with the skin.[7]

People who are sensitive to poison-ivy can also experience a similar rash from mangoes. Mangoes are in the same family (Anacardiaceae) as poison ivy; the sap of the mango tree and skin of mangoes has a chemical compound similar to urushiol. [8]

Similar reactions have been reported occasionally from contact with the related aromatic sumac or Japanese lacquer tree.


[edit] Confusion with other plants
Boxelder Maple (Acer negundo) saplings can look almost indistinguishable from poison ivy. While Boxelder Maples often have five or seven leaflets, three leaflets are also common. The two can be differentiated by the fact that Poison-ivy has alternate leaves, while the maple has opposite leaves; in other words, by observing where the leaf stalk (the "branch" the three leaflets are attached to) meets the main branch. Another leaf stalk directly on the opposite side is characteristic of Boxelder Maple. If the three-leaflet leaves alternate along the main branch, it may be Poison-ivy.
Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) vines can look like Poison-ivy. The younger leaves can consist of three leaflets but have a few more serrations along the leaf edge, and the leaf surface is somewhat wrinkled. However, most Virginia creeper leaves have five leaflets. Virginia creeper and poison ivy very often grow together, even on the same tree. Beware that even people who do not get poison ivy may be allergic to the oxalate crystals that are in its sap.
Western Poison-oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum‎) leaflets also come in threes on the end of a stem, but each leaflet is shaped somewhat like an oak leaf. Western Poison-oak only grows in the western United States and Canada, although many people will refer to poison ivy as poison-oak. This is because poison ivy will grow in either the ivy-like form or the brushy oak-like form depending on the moisture and brightness of its environment. The ivy form likes shady areas with only a little sun, tends to climb the trunks of trees, and can spread rapidly along the ground.
Poison Sumac (Toxicodendron vernix) has compound leaves with 7–15 leaflets. Poison sumac never has only three leaflets.
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) is a non-toxic edible vine that scrambles extensively over lower vegetation or grows high into trees. Kudzu is an invasive species in the southern United States. Like poison ivy it has three leaflets, but the leaflets are bigger than those of poison ivy and are pubescent underneath with hairy margins.
Blackberry and raspberry vines bear a passing resemblance to poison ivy, with which they may share territory. The chief difference between blackberry vines and poison ivy is that blackberry vines have spines on them, whereas poison ivy is smooth. Also, the three-leaflet pattern of blackberry vine leaves changes as the plant grows: the two bottom leaves both split into two leaves, for a total of five in a cluster. They have many teeth along the leaf edge, and the top surface of their leaves is very wrinkled where the veins are, and the bottom of the leaves is light minty - greenish white, while poison ivy is all green. The stem and vine of poison ivy are brown and woody, while blackberry stems are green with thorns.
The thick vines of grape, with no rootlets visible, differ from the vines of poison ivy, which have so many rootlets that the stem going up a tree looks furry.

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Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) (historically called PMT or Premenstrual Tension) is a collection of physical, psychological, and emotional symptoms related to a woman's menstrual cycle. While most women of child-bearing age (about 80 percent) have some Premenstrual symptoms,[1] women with PMS have symptoms of "sufficient severity to interfere with some aspects of life".[2] Such symptoms are usually predictable and occur regularly during the two weeks prior to menses. The symptoms may vanish after the menstrual flow starts, but may continue even after the flow has begun.

For some women with PMS, the symptoms are so severe that they are considered disabling. This form of PMS has its own psychiatric designation: premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).

Culturally, the abbreviation PMS is widely understood in the United States to refer to difficulties associated with menses, and the abbreviation is used frequently even in casual and colloquial settings, without regard to medical rigor. In these contexts, the syndrome is rarely referred to without abbreviation, and the connotations of the reference are frequently more broad than the clinical definition.

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A urinary tract infection (UTI) is a bacterial infection that affects any part of the urinary tract. Although urine contains a variety of fluids, salts, and waste products, it usually does not have bacteria in it.[1] When bacteria get into the bladder or kidney and multiply in the urine, they cause a UTI. The most common type of UTI is a bladder infection which is also often called cystitis. Another kind of UTI is a kidney infection, known as pyelonephritis, and is much more serious. Although they cause discomfort, urinary tract infections can usually be quickly and easily treated when the patient sees a doctor promptly.[2]

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Bones are rigid organs that form part of the endoskeleton of vertebrates. They function to move, support, and protect the various organs of the body, produce red and white blood cells and store minerals. Because bones come in a variety of shapes and have a complex internal and external structure, they are lightweight, yet strong and hard, in addition to fulfilling their many other functions. One of the types of tissues that makes up bone is the mineralized osseous tissue, also called bone tissue, that gives it rigidity and honeycomb-like three-dimensional internal structure. Other types of tissue found in bones include marrow, endosteum and periosteum, nerves, blood vessels and cartilage. There are 206 bones in the adult human body.

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A yawn (from the Middle English yanen, an alteration of yonen or yenen, which in turn comes from the Old English geonian[1]), is a reflex of deep inhalation and exhalation of breath. Pandiculation is the term for the act of stretching and yawning simultaneously.[2]

Yawning is associated with tiredness, stress, overwork, lack of stimulation, or boredom. Yawning can also be a powerful non-verbal message with several possible meanings, depending on the circumstances. In humans, yawning has the infectious quality, i.e. seeing a person yawning, or just thinking of yawning, can trigger yawning which is a typical example for positive feedback.[3] The exact causes of yawning are still undetermined. The claim that yawning is caused by lack of oxygen has not been substantiated scientifically.[4] Some claim that yawning is not caused by lack of oxygen, for the reason that yawning allegedly reduces oxygen intake compared to normal respiration.[4] Another speculated reason for yawning is nervousness and is also claimed to help increase the state of alertness of a person - paratroopers have been noted to yawn in the moments before they exit the aircraft.[5]

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To get the most accurate measurements for an individual's penis size, it has been recommended that several measurements be taken at different times, preferably with different erections on different days. Then average these figures together. This is to account for what may be natural variability in size due to factors such as arousal level, time of day, room temperature, frequency of sexual activity, and unreliability of the measurement methods.[2][3]


Length
The length can be measured with the subject standing and the penis held parallel to the floor. The penis is measured along the top, from the base to the tip. Results are inaccurate if the measurement is taken along the underside of the penis, or if the subject is seated or prone.[2]


Circumference
Penis girth is the measurement of the circumference of the completely erect penis. It is variously quoted as an average of three measurements: just below the glans penis, in the middle of the shaft, and at the base.[2]


Problems
A penis must be completely erect in order to obtain an accurate measurement. This may be difficult to achieve in a clinical setting. At least one Brazilian doctor resorted to injecting penises with drugs to induce erection, which gave more consistent results.[4] Some clinicians measure the penis by stretching the flaccid penis as far as comfortably possible.[5] Self-reported measurements tend to be unreliable because men often want to report a larger penis size.[6]


Studies on penis size
While results vary across studies, the consensus is that the average human penis is approximately 12.9–15 cm (5.1–5.9 in) in length with a 95% confidence interval of (10.7 cm, 19.1 cm) (or, equivalently, 4.23 in, 7.53 in).[7][8][9] The typical girth or circumference is approximately 12.3 cm (4.85 in) when fully erect. The average penis size is slightly larger than the median size (or, put another way, most penises are below average in size).


Size at birth

Frequency graph of LifeStyles data
Percentile plot of LifeStyles data
Plot of LifeStyles data of circumference
Percentile plot of LifeStyles data of circumferenceThe average stretched penile length at birth is about 4 cm (1.6 in), and 90% of newborn boys will be between 2.4 and 5.5 cm (0.9 and 2.2 in). Limited growth of the penis occurs between birth and 5 years of age, but very little occurs between 5 years and the onset of puberty. The average size at the beginning of puberty is 6 cm (2.4 in) with adult size reached about 5 years later. W.A. Schonfeld published a penis growth curve in 1943.[10]


Size with aging
Age is not believed to negatively correlate with penis size. “Individual research studies have ... suggested that penis size is smaller in studies focusing on older men, but Wylie and Eardley found no overall differences when they collated the results of various studies [over a 60 year period].”[11]


Erect length
Several scientific studies have been performed on the erect length of the adult penis. Studies which have relied on self-measurement, including those from Internet surveys, consistently reported a higher average length than those which used medical or scientific methods to obtain measurements.[12][9]

The following staff-measured studies are each composed of different subgroups of the human population (i.e. specific age range and/or race; selection of those with sexual medical concerns or self selection) which may meet the definition of possible sample bias.[13][12]

A study published in the September 1996 Journal of Urology concluded that average erect length was 12.9 cm (5.08 in) (measured by staff).[7] The purpose of the study was to “provide guidelines of penile length and circumference to assist in counseling patients considering penile augmentation.” Erection was pharmacologically induced in 80 physically normal American men (varying ethnicity, average age 54). It was concluded: “Neither patient age nor size of the flaccid penis accurately predicted erectile length.”
A study published in the December 2000 International Journal of Impotence Research found that average erect penis length was 13.6 cm (5.35 in) (measured by staff).[8] Quote: "The aim of this prospective study was to identify clinical and engineering parameters of the flaccid penis for prediction of penile size during erection." Erection was pharmacologically induced in 50 Jewish Caucasian patients who had been evaluated for Erectile dysfunction (average age 47±14y). Patients with penis abnormalities or whose ED could be attributed to more than one psychological origin were omitted from the study.
A study conducted by LifeStyles Condoms found an average of 14.9 cm (5.9 in) with a standard deviation of 2.1 cm (0.8 in) (measured by staff).[9] The purpose of this study was to ensure properly sized condoms were available. 401 college students volunteered to be measured during 2001 Spring Break in Cancún, Mexico, of which 300 gained an erection to be clinically measured (without pharmacological aid). The 300 effective measurements makes this study double the size of any prior study that uses medical staff to measure penis size.

Erect circumference
A study conducted by LifeStyles Condoms during 2001 Spring Break in Cancún found an average of 12.6 cm (5.0 in) with a standard deviation of 1.3 cm (0.5 in).[9]
Similar results exist regarding studies of the circumference of the adult fully erect penis, with the measurement taken mid-shaft.[citation needed] As with length, studies that relied on self-measurement consistently reported a higher average than those with staff measuring.


Flaccid length
One study found the mean flaccid penis length to be 3.5 inches (8.9 cm) (measured by staff).[7] Length of the flaccid penis does not necessarily correspond to length of the erect penis; some smaller flaccid penises can grow much larger, and some larger flaccid penises cannot grow much larger.

The penis and scrotum can contract involuntarily in reaction to cold temperatures or nervousness, referred to by the slang term "shrinkage", due to action by the cremaster muscle.


Penis enlargement surgery
Main article: Penis enlargement
Surgical techniques used for penis enlargement (enhancement phalloplasty) -- penis lengthening and penile widening (girth enhancement) -- have been in the urologic literature for many years.

There are two basic ways of enlarging the penis:

Penis lengthening surgery[14] involves the release of the fundiform ligament and the suspensory ligament that attaches the 2 erectile bodies to the pubic bone. Once these ligaments have been cut, part of the penile shaft (usually held within the body) drops forward and extends out, enlarging the penis in 2-3 cm.
Penis widening with PMMA injection. This method involves injection of silicone, PMMA[15] and other materials into the penis and scrotum, to achieve girth enlargement.

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Popular culture
Culturally, widespread private concerns related to penis size have led to a number of folklore sayings and popular culture reflections related to penis size. These include beliefs that it is possible to predict the size of someone's penis by observing other bodily features such as the hands, feet, nose or height, and in some cases so-called "penis panic" - a form of mass hysteria involving the believed removal or shrinking of the penis, known as genital retraction syndrome. Penis size, and sexual anxiety generally, have led to products such as penis pumps, pills, and other dubious means of enlargement becoming some of the most marketed products in spam mail.

The media has equated a man's penis size with both power and masculinity.[31] Furthermore the perception of having a large penis is linked to higher self esteem.[31]

The suggested link between penis size, foot size and height has been investigated by a relatively small number of groups. Two of these studies have suggested a link between penis size and foot size, while the most recent report dismissed these findings.[citation needed] One of the studies suggesting a link relied on the subjects measuring the size of their own penis, which may well be inaccurate. The second study found statistically significant although "weak" correlation between the size of the stretched penis and foot size and height.[citation needed] A potential explanation for these observations is that the development of the penis in an embryo is controlled by some of the same Hox genes (in particular HOXA13 and HOXD13)[32] as those that control the development of the limbs. Mutations of some Hox genes that control the growth of limbs cause malformed genitalia (hand–foot–genital syndrome).[33] However the most recent investigation[34] failed to find any evidence for a link between shoe size and stretched penis size.[35] Given the large number of genes which control the development of the human body shape, and the effects of hormones during childhood and adolescence, it would seem unlikely that an accurate prediction of penis size could be made by measuring a different part of the human body.

Other studies correlating the size of the human penis with other factors have given intriguing results. Notably one study analysing the self-reported Kinsey data set found that homosexual men had statistically larger penises than their heterosexual counterparts.[36] One potential explanation given is a difference in the exposure to androgen hormones in the developing embryo. The study author's opinion is that evidence points towards both orientations being equally likely to exaggerate.[37]

Recently, there has been greater media attention to the issue of penis size and women being more vocal about their preferences.[citation needed] Television shows such as Sex and the City and Ally McBeal popularized the penis-size issue when characters in these TV shows stated their preference for well-endowed men and rejected men who had only average endowment. Sex and the City has also shown a character expressing displeasure over her partner having too large a penis, described in comic hyperbolic terms. The media have also been criticized for making penis size into a male body issue equivalent to Cosmopolitan magazine being criticized for their coverage of women's weight.


Penis size and female genital response
According to some sex researchers and therapists, several misconceptions have developed surrounding penile-vaginal intercourse.[38] Many men exaggerate the importance of deep vaginal penetration in stimulating a woman to orgasm.

The most sensitive area of the female genitals includes the vulva, clitoris, and the section of vagina closest to the outside of a woman's body, which is roughly 10 centimeters (4 in) in length. Research has found that portions of the clitoris extend into the vulva and vagina.[39] Given that the median penis size is above this length, the majority of penises are of sufficient length to satisfy their partners.

While many women find penile stimulation of the cervix to be uncomfortable or painful, others report it to be the key to orgasm.[40] The cervix may be confused with the anterior or posterior fornix, the deepest point of the vagina, above and below the cervix, respectively.[41] The cervix and fornix are close to each other, making it possible for there to be indirect and/or simultaneous stimulation between them.[42]

The fornix is said to be another possible orgasm trigger area.[43] Tests have shown that pressure on this area causes the vagina to lubricate very quickly.[44] The area of sexual response in the anterior fornix has also been called the epicentre, T-Spot, AFE-Zone, AFE or A-Spot; while in the posterior fornix it has been called epicenter (as well) or cul-de-sac (since the cul-de-sac, also known as the rectouterine pouch, may be indirectly stimulated by pressure on the posterior fornix[42]).

During arousal, the vagina lengthens rapidly to an average of about 4 in (8.5 cm), but can continue to lengthen in response to pressure.[45] As the woman becomes fully aroused, the vagina tents (last ²⁄₃ expands in length and width) while the cervix retracts.[46] The walls of the vagina are composed of soft elastic folds of mucous membrane skin which stretch or contract (with support from pelvic muscles) to the size of the penis.[47] This means (with proper arousal) the vagina stretches or contracts to accommodate virtually any size penis, from small to large.[48

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Micropenis
Main article: Micropenis
An adult penis with an erect length of less than 7 cm or just over 2 inches but otherwise formed normally is referred to in a medical context as having the micropenis condition.[49] Some of the identifiable causes are deficiency of pituitary growth hormone and/or gonadotropins, mild degrees of androgen insensitivity, a variety of genetic syndromes, and variations in certain Homeobox genes. Some types of micropenis can be addressed with growth hormone or testosterone treatment in early childhood.

A news post on New Scientist dated December 6, 2004 reads "A new surgical procedure has allowed men with abnormally short penises to enjoy a full sex life and urinate standing up, some for the first time. Tiny "micro-penises" have been enlarged to normal size without losing any erogenous sensation, say UK doctors."[50]


Environmental influence on penis size
It has been suggested that penis size differences between individuals is caused not only by genetics, but also by environmental factors such as culture, diet, chemical/pollution exposure,[51][52][53][54] etc. Alarmingly, endocrine disruption resulting from chemical exposure has been linked to genital deformation in both sexes (among many other problems). Chemicals from both synthetic (e.g. pesticides, anti-bacterial Triclosan, plasticizers for plastics, etc...) and natural (e.g. chemicals found in tea tree oil and lavender oil[55]) sources have been linked to various degrees of endocrine disruption.

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Symptoms related to the rectum can occur from colon cancer, hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, anal warts or polyps. Infectious processes can occur from ruptured of a polyp of infection within a colon cancer.

Symptoms of incontinence may be the result of neurological damage to the rectal sphincter or direct injury to the sphincter, such as may occur with childbirth. Spinal cord tumors or multiple sclerosis could also lead to incontinence.

Chronic diarrhea and acute diarrhea have many diverse causes. They may or not be infectious. They may be the result of antibiotic therapy or chemotherapy. IBS, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease all may lead to diarrhea. All forms of diarrhea lead to loss of fluids and electrolytes and can result in serious systemic symptoms. Some forms of diarrhea may involve bleeding, leading to anemia.

Symptoms in the buttock frequently involve pain. This is commonly the result of sciatica. Here, a ruptured disc may impinge on one of the nerves exiting the spine that forms the sciatic nerve. Back pain is common.

Pain in the pelvic and low back area may occur with disease of the prostate, such as prostate cancer or uterine cancer. Symptoms of pregnancy can include pain in the lower portion of the back or pressure in the rectal region.

Internists, gastroenterologists, general surgeons and rectal surgeons all treat these disorders. Disease of the nerves may require consultation with neurologist, neurosurgeons or orthopedic surgeons.

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Just last month, unflattering beach photos of Jennifer Lopez's dimpled posterior seemed to have dimmed the fashion focus on the female backside. And isn't it about time to shift elsewhere—to kneecaps or pinky toes, for example? After all, it's been a full decade since designer Alexander McQueen's low-cut jeans ushered in the era of derrière décolletage and the ensuing onslaught of thongs, fanny facials, Brazilian butt lifts, and tramp-stamp tattoos.

But now comes the October 2007 issue of King magazine, with buttock queen Kim Kardashian on the cover. Will she prove the fashion fulcrum for a new wave of buttock accentuation? Click here for a slide show about the art of buttock innovation—past, present, and future.

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Three women, the Angels, (originally Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, and Jaclyn Smith) graduated from the police academy and were hired to work for the Charles Townsend Agency as private investigators. Their boss, Charlie (voiced by John Forsythe), is never seen full face — in some episodes he is shown from the rear only (where the viewer only sees the back of his head and his arms) — assigning cases to the Angels and his liaison, Bosley (played by David Doyle), via a speaker phone.

Charlie's Angels is episodic in nature, as opposed to serial, thus each episode shows the Angels finding themselves in new situations in which they would go undercover to investigate. The undercover aspect of the show creates much of the plot interest and tension. In the early seasons of the show, the Angels, under their assumed identities, use a combination of sexual wiles and knowledge learned for the situation in which they are being placed, but by the third and fourth seasons, the writing has a tendency to stray from the sex appeal (see "As 'Jiggle TV'") and focus more on the case at hand.