Month: March 2005
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Importance
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.Hugh Mulligan
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Family Tradition
All of his life Ole had heard stories of an amazing family tradition.It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 21st birthday. On that day, they’d walk across the lake to the boat club for their first legal drink.So when Ole’s 21st birthday came around,…
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True Friends
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first.Paramahansa Yogananda
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Naked
This woman is actually walking down the street with no “real” clothes — only those painted on her. The passersby didn’t give her a second look because the paint looked so much like clothing. YES, she is naked!This one came in Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:46:16 -0600. Looks like MessageLabs made another good hit.What intrigued…
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Beauty
“… People of both sexes, whose looks are very indifferent at the beginning, may appear almost handsome on futher acquaintance. A well-informed mind, nice manners and a gentle nature — all of these are much more likely to contribute to a husband’s happiness than mere transient beauty.”Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, Pg.…
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How to say thank you
We could all learn from this. How to say thank you in most human languagesSomeone has finally created a Web calculator for an equation I’ve been promoting for years: half plus seven Silly patents (what else?) For kids: animals from the alphabet. Thanks to Cathy CotterStrange origami10×10 – up-to-the-moment grid of current events in pics…
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In the way
… Strange found himself subject to that peculiarly uncomfortable Natural Law which states that whenever a person arrives at a place where he is not known, then wherever he stands he is sure to be in the way.Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, Pg. 291