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Today's Quotations –  more on  SUCCESS:

 


Succes is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown.

—  Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts



When a successful figure becomes especially prominent and conspocious, the majority give way to the idolization of success. They become blind to right and wrong, truth and untruth, fair play and foul play. They have eyes only for the deed, for the successful result.

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics



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

— Bill Cosby



To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

  — Anna Pavlova



What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

—  Bob Dylan



My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

—  Helen Hayes



Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

— Norman Vincent Peale



A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

— Albert Schweitzer

 

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  Today's Word – ATTENUATE
   

 


at·ten·u·ate verb 1. To make slender, fine, or small. 2. To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken. 3. To lessen the density of; rarefy. 4. Biology. To make (bacteria or viruses) less virulent. 5. Electronics. To reduce (the amplitude of an electrical signal) with little or no distortion. --intr. 1. To become thin, weak, or fine. --at·ten·u·ate adjective 1. Reduced or weakened, as in strength, value, or virulence. 2. Botany. Gradually tapering to a slender point.

She knew how to hit to a hair's-breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralise each other, leaving absolute mental liberty. It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to its least possible dimensions.

A Pure Woman Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy

Definition from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

 

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For the Birds
The Rails

The rails are birds from the order Gruiformes. Other members of this order include the cranes, coots, and gallinules. Rails are marsh birds and birds of the deep grasses and sedges that grow along the border of bodies of water. All rails have short tails, long legs and rounded wings. The rounded wings limit the birds to rather week flying ability. To compensate for this lack their bodies are compressed laterally. This gives them the advantage of slipping through dense marshy tangles to escape pursuit. This lateral compression of their body is also the source of a familiar phrase: "skinny as a rail."

The rails are very secretive. They are somewhat gregarious and are found living in family groups. They are omnivorous, eating seeds, insects, crustaceans, and worms. They can often be heard calling in a series of harsh cackling notes to express their alarm.

There are six species of Rails found in North America. Probably the most common is the Clapper Rail. It is also known as the marsh clapper and marsh hen. This 15 inch long bird can be found in the tidal flats from Maine to Florida, and westward to San Francisco bay. The bird can be found in salt meadows and brackish creeks anywhere in this area. The bird's coloration provides for great concealment. The plumage of its back and shoulders, ashy gray streaked with brown, and that of its breast, russet paling into grayish on its flanks, are nearly identical with its surroundings of marshes littered with faded reeds. A rail is seldom seen unless it moves. Even with movement its colors and patterns quickly blend into its surroundings.

Protective coloration alone is not enough for the safety of the rail. The rail can generally evade capture by its pursuer by scampering through the dense rushes. Though it wings are week it has powerful legs and a skinny, wedge shaped body. It can slip between close growing rushes. It also has long spreading toes that enable it to travel quickly across quaking bogs.

The rail is also a very able swimmer. Like many water birds they are also good divers. Occasionally when attacked a clapper rail will plunge and avoid surfacing by allowing only the tip of its bill to protrude from the water. By gripping the base of a reed the rail can remain submerged and remain practically invisible until peril disappears.
 

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 A man was in his bed dying, slipping in and out of consciousness, and his wife came into the room with his doctor and the parish priest.

"Mrs. Kelleher, you realize that the bill for my services is $1000," the doctor said.

"Fine, I'll see to it that it's paid from the insurance."

"And, don't forget, Doreen, the funeral and casket will cost $1000," the priest said.

"Don't worry, Father, I'll see to it that you're paid as well."

The three walked over to the bed and the doctor stood on one side of the man and the priest stood on the other. He opened his eyes and saw the two men there, and said, "Father, would you tell the people at my funeral that I died as Jesus died?"

"Do you mean pure of heart and poor in spirit, Tom?"

"No, I mean between two thieves."

smileA hamburger walked into a bar, climbed up onto a bar stool, looked at the bartender and ordered a tall cold beer.

The bartender looked at the hamburger for a moment and replied, "I'm sorry sir, but I can't sell you that drink."

The hamburger thought about this for a second and said, "I'm over 21. Why can't you sell me a drink?"

After looking at the hamburger for another moment, the bartender replied, "I'm sorry, we don't serve food in here.

Why do people ask if they can ask a question?

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application. --Ken Kraft

"The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't try."

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism!

AdamsCathy@aol.com

An upscale thief, needing money to pay his income taxes, decided to hit the safe in a store. One the safe door he was delighted to find a note reading: "Please don't use dynamite. The safe is not locked. Just turn the knob."

He did so. . .
Instantly a heavy sandbag fell on him, the entire premises were floodlighted, and alarms started clanging.

As the police carried him out on a stretcher, he was heard moaning: "Alas, my confidence in human nature has been rudely shaken."


A young man wanted to get his beautiful blonde wife something nice for their first wedding anniversary. So he decides to buy her a cell phone. She is all excited, she loves her phone. He shows her and explains to her all the features on the phone.

The next day the blonde goes shopping. Her phone rings and it's her husband, "Hi hon," he says. "How do you like your new phone?"

She replies, "I just love it, it's so small and your voice is clear as a bell but there's one thing I don't understand though."

"What's that, baby?" asks the husband.

"How did you know I was at WalMart?"

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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