ALL THE REST –    April 5
  

Today's Quotations – about Heaven

 

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When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.hen Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.


Mencius
 

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Who could know heaven save by heaven's gift and discover God save one who shares himself in the divine.

Marcus Manilius 

 
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When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not Heaven.

Christopher Marlowe
 

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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

Today's Short Words of  Wisdom



Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Abraham Lincoln

 

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  Today's Word – ineffable 
   

 


in·ef·fa·ble
 

adjective 1. Incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable. Synonym at unspeakable. 2. Not to be uttered; taboo

"What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table; "I never read such rubbish in my life."

"What is it?" asked Sherlock Holmes."Why, this article," I said, pointing at it with my egg-spoon as I sat down to my breakfast.

A STUDY IN SCARLET
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

  
 


Chocolate

  

 

Chocolate - Part 1

Theobroma cacao, is the scientific name of the plant from which we get chocolate. It is tropical American tree of the family Sterculiaceae. The cacao tree is grown throughout the wet lowland tropics, often in the shade of taller trees. It has a thick trunk and rises up to 40 feet tall. Its leathery oblong leaves are up to 1 foot long. The small pinkish flowers are borne directly on the branches and trunk and smell quite foul. The flowers are followed by the fruit, or pods, which are ovoid, yellow-brown to purple, and divided on the surface by 10 ribs, or ridges. The pods may be up to about a foot long and 4.5 inches in diameter. Each pod yields 20-40 seeds, or cocoa beans. The beans, about 1 inch long, are embedded within the pod in a pink mucilaginous pulp.

The usefulness of the cocoa bean was well known to the Pre-Colombian inhabitants of tropical America. Chocolate was fist known only as a beverage. It was a ceremonial brew of at least three Indian civilizations: the Mayans, the Toltecs, and the Aztecs. It was so prized that for some time the beans were used as currency in these societies.

The Aztecs allowed the cocoa beans to ferment in the pod for several days. The broken kernels were then roasted in earthenware vessels, then ground into a paste in a heated concave stone. The naturally bitter flavor of the paste was flavored by the addition of vanilla, spices and various herbs. In many cases hot pepper seeds were also added to the paste. The paste was molded into small cakes and dried on shiny leaves in the shade. When the time came to brew the drink, the cakes were crumbled, mixed with hot water (or chicken broth), and stirred with a wooden beater, called a molinet, until the desired consistency was obtained. The Aztecs called their chocolate beverage xocoatl which means bitter drink.


Sources:
The Browser's Book of Beginnings and Origins of Everything under, and Including the Sun - Charles Panat | Encyclopaedia Britannica |

 

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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   


SWALLOW

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though they were a very large mammal their throat was very small. 


The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. 


The teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was impossible. 


The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah" 


The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?" 


The little girl replied, "Then you ask him." 



- Why Women Talk So Much -



A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that men use, on the average, 
only 15,000 words a day, whereas women use 30,000 words a day.

She thought about this for a while and then told her husband that women use twice as many words as men because they have to 
repeat everything they say.

Looking stunned, He said, "What?".


TAXES

You know it's a bad day when your income tax refund check bounces.


Why do people pay taxes?

To help out the government -- so the government doesn't have to pay for everything.


A businessman who was near death asked that his remains be cremated and the ashes be mailed to the Internal Revenue Service with the following note attached: "Now You Have It All."


The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said "If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what the government has been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference."


A fine is a tax for doing something wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing something right.



It's All De Same To Me!

A man was rushing his wife, who was pregnant with twins, to the hospital. He was so nervous and
disoriented, he pulled up to the emergency room and rear-ended an ambulance! Though a very minor bump, he actually passed out from the stress! Upon regaining consciousness, he saw his brother (a relentless world-class practical joker) sitting at his bed side. He asked his brother how his wife was and his brother replied, "Don't worry, everybody is fine and you have a son and a daughter. But the hospital was in a real hurry to get the birth certificates filed and both you and your wife were unconscious so I named them for you."

The husband's heart jumped up into to his throat, thinking, "Oh no, what has he done now?" He nervously asked his brother, "W-w-well, what did you name them?"

The brother replied, "I named the little girl Denise."

"Really?!? Oh! Well, that's a very pretty name!" the husband said, his relief showing as he sat up. "And what did you name my son?"

"Denephew."

Kasha Linka


Married in Heaven

This fellow who had spent his whole life in the desert comes to visit a friend. He'd never seen a train or the tracks they run on.

While standing in the middle of the RR tracks one day, he hears this whistle -- Whooee da Whoee! -- but doesn't know what it is.

Predictably, he's hit -- but, only a glancing blow -- and is thrown, head-over-heels, to the side of the tracks, with some minor internal injuries, a few broken bones, and some bruises.

After weeks in the hospital recovering, he's at his friend's house attending a party, one evening. While in the kitchen, he suddenly hears the tea kettle whistling. He grabs a baseball bat from the nearby closet and proceeds to batter and bash the tea kettle into an unrecognizable lump of metal.

His friend, hearing the ruckus, rushes into the kitchen, sees what's happened and asks the desert man: "Why'd you ruin my good tea kettle?"

The desert man replies: "Man, you gotta kill these things when they're small."  

From: Kasha Linka




Tax Payer:

A person who resents that death and taxes don't come in that order.

 

 


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