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Today's Quotations –  Music:

 



If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

— Tom Stoppard

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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

— Elvis Presley

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I wept at the beauty of your hymns and canticles, and was powerfully moved at the sweet sound of your Church singing. These sounds flowed into my ears, and the truth streamed into my heart.

—  St. Augustine

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Music doth extenuate fears, furies, appeaseth cruelty, adadeth heaviness, and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.

  —  Cassiodorus

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tunee.

—  Kin Hubbard

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Music hat charms to soothe a savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

— William Conoreve

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

—  George Eliot

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In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
– Charles Mingus

 

word puzzle
  Today's Word – TOPOR
   

 


tor·por noun 1. A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility. 2. Lethargy; apathy. Synonym lethargy. 3. The dormant, inactive state of a hibernating or estivating animal.


But the complete torpor came at last: the fingers lost their tension, the arms unbent; then the little head fell away from the bosom, and the blue eyes opened wide on the cold starlight.

Silas Marner 
George Eliot


The same torpor, as regarded the capacity for intellectual effort, accompanied me home, and weighed upon me in the chamber which I most absurdly termed my study. Nor did it quit me when, late at night, I sat in the deserted parlour, lighted only by the glimmering coal-fire and the moon, striving to picture forth imaginary scenes, which, the next day, might flow out on the brightening page in many-hued description.

The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Definition from American Heritage Dictionary


Today's Fact

 

 

animals


For the Birds
The Wild Turkey

Benjamin Franklin would have preferred to have the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), not the Bald Eagle, as the national symbol of the United States. Although today's barnyard variety is a rather stupid creature (leading to the insulting tone of the term "turkey"), the original wild form is a wary and magnificent bird.

Wild Turkeys usually get around by walking or running, but they can fly strongly, and they typically roost overnight in tall trees. The bird is found in the Eastern and southwestern United States to Mexico. It can be found in woods, mountain forests, and wooded swamps of this area. They are often found near some kind of oak as acorns are a favorite food. The wild turkey is omnivorous. Its diet varies with season but is mostly plant material, including many acorns, leaves, seeds, grains, berries, buds, grass blades, roots, and bulbs. It also eats insects, spiders, snails, and sometimes frogs, lizards, snakes, salamanders, and crabs.

Their numbers were seriously depleted by beginning of 20th century. Since then, re-introduction programs have been successful and the Wild Turkey has been restored to much of its former range. Apparently the wild turkey is still increasing in many regions.

Sources: Various
   
 

 
And God said, "Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind." So God created great sea creatures and every sort of fish and every kind of bird. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:20-21

 

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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   

 

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"Oh grammar," crater ladle gull, "Wart bag icer gut! A nervous sausage bag ice!" "Butter lucky chew whiff, doling," whiskered disc ratchet woof, wetter wicket small. "Oh grammar, water bag noise! A nervous sore suture anomalous prognosis!" "Buttered small your whiff," inserter woof, ants mouse worse wadding.

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Mural: Yonder not sorghum stenches shud ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers.

 

smileThe Best Patient

Five surgeons are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on.

The first surgeon says, "I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."

The second responds, "Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is color coded."

The third surgeon says, "No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order."

The fourth surgeon chimes in: "You know, I like construction workers... those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would."

But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed: "You're all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, and no spine, and the head and bottom are interchangeable."

Let's Race

Two gas company servicemen, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee were out checking meters in a suburban neighborhood. They parked their truck at the end of the alley and worked their way to the other end. At the last house a woman looking out her kitchen window watched as they checked her meter.

Finishing the meter check, the senior supervisor challenged his younger co-worker to a footrace down the alley back to the truck to prove that an older guy could outrun a younger one. As they came tearing up to the truck, they realized the lady of that end house was huffing and puffing right behind them. They stopped immediately and asked her what was wrong.

"When I saw two gasmen running as hard as you were," gasped the woman, "I figured I'd better run too!"

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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