ALL THE REST —  October 18
  

 

Today's Quotations –  PEACE:

 


If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

— Mother Teresa



Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth that must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

— Herbert Hoover 



No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

— George Jean Nathan


Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson



Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. 

— Martin Luther King, December 11, 1964


Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

— Baruch Spinoza


I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower


 

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  Today's Word – CONDIGN
   

 


con·dign adjective Deserved; adequate [Middle English condigne, from Old French, from Latin condignus : com-, intensive pref.; - + dignus, worthy; ] --con·dign"ly adverb.


For half an hour the Russian pleaded or threatened as the mood seized him. Sometimes he was upon the verge of tears, and again he was promising his listener either fabulous rewards or condign punishment; but the other was obdurate.

The Beasts of Tarzan.
By Edgar Rice Burroughs

Definition from American Heritage Dictionary

 

 

Today's Fact

 


FACT

Island Facts
Some unusual facts about islands.

One of the world's biggest and most populous nations is also by far the most fragmented. Indonesia has nearly 16-thousand islands. This makes Indonesia, the nation with the most islands in the world. Indonesians speak more than 200 languages, but most know Malay and some Dutch.

The Bahamas are closer to Miami than Georgia is to Miami. The Bahamian island chain is huge, though, and stretches a thousand miles toward the Caribbean.

Bermuda, by contrast, is basically one island, nowhere near the Caribbean, far out in the Atlanic. Bermuda is closer to New York than to Miami


 
"O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. "

(Psalms 104:24)

 

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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   

 

Last Wish

There once was a rich man who was dying.  While on his death bed, he tried to negotiate with God to have God allow him to bring his earthly treasures with him to heaven.

"God, please, I have worked so hard to accumulate all these riches. Can't I bring them along?"

"This is very unusual," said God, "but since you have been such a faithful steward, I will allow you to bring one suitcase."

The man immediately had a servant fill a large suitcase with gold bricks. Shortly thereafter, he died.  When he arrived at the pearly gates, he was stopped by St. Peter.

"I'm sorry sir, but you know the rule -- 'you can't take it with you.' You may enter, but the suitcase has to stay outside."

"But God told me I could bring one suitcase," the man protested.

"Well, if God says it's O.K. -- but I still need to examine the contents before you enter."

St. Peter took the suitcase from the man, opened it, and, looking very puzzled, said to the man, "You brought pavement?"

Thanks  LEE for this SMILE

At the Gait

An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer -- you're in the wrong place."

So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.

One day, God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?"

Satan replies, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."

God replies, "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake -- he should never have gotten down there; send him up here."

Satan says, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."

God says, "Send him back up here or I'll sue."

Satan laughs uproariously and answers, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"

It's no Bother

After dinner one evening a rancher's wife was entertaining their house guest by playing the piano. At one point she turned to the visitor and said, "I understand you love music."

"Yes," murmured the guest politely. "But never you mind. Keep right on playing."

Source: Roshan's Humour List - from David & Virginia


 

Layer Joke

An attorney was sitting in his office late one night, when the Devil appeared before him.

The Devil said to the lawyer, "I have a proposition for you. You can win every case you try, for the rest of your life. Your clients will adore you, your colleagues will stand in awe of you, and you will make embarrassing sums of money. All I want in exchange is your soul, your wife's soul, your children's souls, the souls of your parents, grandparents, and parents-in-law, and the souls of all of your friends and law partners."

The lawyer thought about this for a moment, then asked, "So, what's the catch?"

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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