ALL THE REST —  July 30
  

 

Today's Quotations – SUCCESS:

 


Here I have lived a quarter of a century and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assisstance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

— Abraham Lincoln
Speech at Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861



The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

— Jean Giraudoux



The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you?

— Nancy Astor



The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

  — Dr. Smiley Blanton



Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

—  Thomas Edison



Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

— G. K. Chesterton



Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

— Winston Churchill



I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

— Bill Cosby

 

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  Today's Word FETID
   

 

fet·id also foe·tid — adjective Having an offensive odor.


There was also a thick, smoky fog that seemed allergic to to the sunlight. The stink was fetid, worse than walking around in a city dump.

Cat and Mouse
by James Patterson


One wondered about this, as also about the swarms of flies which hung about the scene, literally blackening the air, and the strange, fetid odor which assailed one's nostrils, a ghastly odor, of all the dead things of the universe.

The Jungle
Upton Sinclair


Definition from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

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For the Birds
Hang Tight

Have you ever seen a sleeping robin perched on a small branch? How can they perch there while asleep and not fall off? Even if a strong wind begins to blow -- they won't fall off. God has created the bird especially for staying anchored to the branch. The bird is actually locked onto the branch. When the bird relaxes in sleep, its body slumps down on its feet. In this position, a tendon passing from behind the heel is pulled tight. This action draws the three foreword toes and the hind toe toward each other. The pulling of the foreword toe and the hind toe together clamps the bird to the twig. When the bird rises to a standing position a second tendon releases the clamp and allows the bird to fly from the twig.
 

Let every created thing give praise to the Lord,
for he issued his command, and they came into being.
Psalm 148:5 (NLT)

 

 

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Today's SMILE

 

   

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

  
   

 

 

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Joseph Addison

 

A FEW SMILES   

 

smile THE GOOD NEWS: All of you slaves on this ship are going to get an extra ration with the noon meal.

THE BAD NEWS: After lunch, the captain wants to go water skiing." 

From Zondervan - A Time To Smile

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THE MUST READ BOOK LIST   

            Without Warning by Oliver Sudden
            And the Other People by Allan Sundry
            Riel Ambush! by May T. Surprise
            You're So Sweet by Mable Syrup
            Prevent Drowning by Buddy System
            Mineralogy for Giants by Chris Tall
            Why Cars Stop by M.T. Tank
            When's The Revolution? by Millie Tant
            Tight Situation by Leah Tard
            Tyrant of the Potatoes by Dick Tater
            How to Buy Old Furniture by Ann Teak
            Solving Crimes by D. Tective
            I Wuz Framed! by Gil Tee
            Trial Law by Tess Temoni
            Animal Illnesses by Ann Thrax
            What's Your Invention? by Pat Tent
            All Alone by Saul E. Terry
            I Hit the Wall by Isadore There

From Zondervan - A Time To Smile

 

"The Department of Education says 40 million Americans cannot read or count. It's astounding. And if you don't believe it, just take a look at the person directly in front of you in the express checkout line."
(Argus Hamilton)

From Zondervan - A Time To Smile


Ice Fishing The Hard Way

There were two old boys from Alabama who love to fish, and they wanted to do some ice fishing.

They'd heard about it up in Canada, and they took off up there. The lake was frozen nicely. They stopped just before they got to the lake at a little bait shop and got all their tackle. One of them said, "We're going to need an ice pick."

So they got that, and they took off. In about two hours, one of them was back at the shop and said, "We're going to need another dozen ice picks."

Well, the fellow in the shop wanted to ask some questions, but he didn't. He sold him the picks, and the old boy left.

In about an hour, he was back. Said, "We're going to need all the ice picks you've got."

The bait man couldn't stand it any longer. "By the way," he asked, "how are you fellows doing?"

"Not very well at all," he said. "We don't even have the boat in the water yet."

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

 


How do you know when it's time to tune your bagpipes? 

 

 

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~ The Web ~


"If you touch a spider web anywhere, you set the whole thing trembling. . . . As we move around this world and as we act with kindness, perhaps, or with indifference, or with hostility toward the people we meet, we too are setting the great spider web a-tremble.

The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who  knows where the trembling stops or in what far place and time my touch will be felt.  Our lives are linked.  No person is an island."

— Frederick Buechner

 

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