ALL THE REST –    March 7, 2001
  

 

Today's Quotations – POWER

 

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There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

— Karen Nussbaum

 

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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

— Nadine Gordimer

 
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

— Abigail Adams

 

 

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A friend in power is a friend lost.

— Henry Brooks Adams

 

 
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There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

— Hardware News
 

 

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  Today's Word – SUPPLANT
   

 


sup·plant
transitive verb sup·plant·ed, sup·plant·ing, sup·plants. 1. To usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics. 2. To displace and substitute for (another) Synonym replace.

King Richard: The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he:
His time is spent; our pilgrimage must be.
So much for that. Now for our Irish wars.
We must
supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,
Which live like venom where no venom else
But only they have privilege to live.


King Richard the Second.
By William Shakespeare

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 


Did You Know?

A human Body Fact:
About Pain

Pain is quite a safety factor. God has created pain as a way to prevent us from repeating an injurious action. For example - if one breaks a leg, pain prevents one from walking on that leg and causing further injury. Pain travels at 350 feet in a second. Pain roughly involves ten billion nerve cells per square inch of skin. Generally, pain will move quicker than one's ability to respond to the pain. For example, one can sometimes burn their hand before the sensation of pain causes them to remove the hand from the hot surface.

Book of Oddities - Frank O'Neil

 

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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   

Lawyer Jokes

A man walked into a bar with his alligator and asked the bartender, "Do you serve lawyers here?".

"Sure do," replied the bartender.

"Good," said the man. "Give me a beer, and I'll have a lawyer for my 'gator."


A woman and her little girl were visiting the grave of the little girl's grandmother. On their way through the cemetery back to the car, the little girl asked, "Mommy, do they ever bury two people in the same grave?"

"Of course not, dear." replied the mother, "Why would you think that?"

"The tombstone back there said 'Here lies a lawyer and an honest man.'"


"You seem to have more than the average share of intelligence for a man of your background," sneered the lawyer at a witness on the stand.

"If I wasn't under oath, I'd return the compliment," replied the witness.


Breaking "in" Is Hard To Do! (From Andy's Archives)

An airline captain was breaking in a very pretty new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a stay-over in  another city. Upon their arrival the captain showed the stewardess the best place for airline personnel to eat, shop and stay overnight.

The next morning as the pilot was preparing the crew for the day's route, he noticed the new stewardess was missing. He knew which room she was in at the hotel and called her up
wondering what happened to her.

She answered the phone, crying, and said she couldn't get out of her room.

"You can't get out of your room?" the captain asked, "Why not?"

The stewardess replied, "There are only three doors in here," she sobbed, "one is the bathroom, one is the closet, and one has a sign on it that says 'Do Not Disturb'!"


 The Van Gogh Family Tree

After much careful research it has been discovered that the artist Vincent Van Gogh had many relatives.
Among them were:

His obnoxious brother................Please Gogh
His dizzy aunt ......................Verti Gogh
The brother who ate prunes...........Gotta Gogh
The brother who worked at a convenience store................Stopn Gogh
The grandfather from Yugoslavia......U Gogh
The brother who bleached his clothes white....................Hue Gogh
The cousin from Illinois.............Chica Gogh
His magician uncle...................Wherediddy Gogh
His Mexican cousin...................Amee Gogh
The Mexican cousin's American
half brother.....................Grin Gogh
The nephew who drove a stage coach...Wellsfar Gogh
The constipated uncle ...............Cant Gogh
The ballroom dancing aunt............Tan Gogh
The bird lover uncle.................Flamin Gogh
His nephew psychoanalyst.............E Gogh
The fruit loving cousin..............Man Gogh
An aunt who taught positive thinking.........................Wayto Gogh
The little nephew....................Poe Gogh
A sister who loved disco.............Ahgo Gogh
His Italian uncle................... Day Gogh
And his niece who travels the country in a van.................Winnie B. Gogh

From: Kasha Linka


BOOOO!

A man rushed into the doctor's office and shouted, "Doctor! I think I'm shrinking!" The doctor calmly responded, "Now, settle down. You'll just have to be a little patient."




How do you keep an idiot busy for hours?

 



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


When I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up!

 

 


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