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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. Mahatma Gandhi
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The enthusiasm of prayer is likewise a mystery between man and God; like modesty it casts a veil over thought and and hides from men what is meant for heaven.
Alphonse De
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Woody Allen
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man! Elbert Hubbard
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pe·cu·ni·ar·y
adjective 1. Of or relating to money: a pecuniary loss; pecuniary motives.
Synonym financial. 2. Requiring payment of money: a pecuniary offense.
Phileas Fogg, then, had won the twenty thousand pounds; but, as he had spent nearly
nineteen thousand on the way, the pecuniary
gain was small. His object was, however, to be victorious, and not to win money.
Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary
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In the 1840's Uruguay and Brazil were battling it out on the seas. In one naval engagement the Uruguayan ship ran out of conventional shot. The quick thinking Captain Coe loaded his cannon with old, hard, Edam cheese. They then fired on the Brazilian ship with cheese. The first two rounds of cheese went wide of their expected target. Not willing to give up, the cheeseball fight continued. A third round of cheese hit the mast of the Brazilian ship squarely. Two Brazilian sailors were killed by cheese shrapnel. More hits of cheese shredded the sails of the Brazilian ship and the wise Brazilian admiral ordered his ship out of the battle. Cheese also found other uses aboard ships. In the 1750's British sailors found the cheese too hard to eat. Instead they used the cheese in making jackets and trousers. Its tough, durable quality made it a better material for buttons than common metal. Sources: The Mammoth Book of Oddities - Frank O'Neil
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A Frenchman, an Englishman, and a New Yorker were captured by cannibals.
The chief comes to them and says, "The bad news is that now that we've caught you,
we're going to kill you. We will put you in a pot and cook you, eat you, and then use your
skins to build a canoe. The good news is that you get to choose how you die." Contributed by Danielle Krivas From DigiDay A blonde was complaining to her friend
about constantly being called a dumb blonde. Her friend tells her "go do something to
prove them wrong! Why don't you learn all the state capitals or something?" Contributed by Joe Barber From DigiDay
A friend was in front of me coming out of church one
day, and the preacher was standing at the door as he always was to shake hands. The
Pastor grabbed my friend by the hand and pulled him aside and said, "You need to join
the Army of the Lord!" From: Kasha Linka
After putting her children to bed, a mother changed into old slacks and a sweat shirt, put mud pack on her face and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. At last she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard her three-year-old ask with a trembling voice, "Who was that?"
THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM A little girl walked daily to and from school. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trip to school. TRUE FACT ... Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day. SOURCE: NYT, Dr. William F. Fry, Stanford University
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