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Today's Quotations –  ANGER:

 


It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

— William Arthur Ward



How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

—  Marcus Aurelius



The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

—  Author Unknown



Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

  — Roseanne Barr



Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

—  Helen Alfredsson



Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

— H. G. Bohn



In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

—  Buddha



Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

– John F. Boyes

 

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  Today's Word – VERVE
   

 


verve  noun 1. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition 2. Vitality; liveliness. Synonym vigor. 3. Archaic. Aptitude; talent. [French, from Old French, fanciful expression, probably from Vulgar Latin *verva, from Latin verba, pl. of verbum, word.]


In their exotic way, Indian films evoke Old Hollywood, wit its glamour and verve and the cunning subversion of its own taboos..

TIME, September 16, 1996


Favourite, the friend of Blacheville, the Old One of twenty-three, ran forward under the broad green branches, leaped across ditches, madly-sprang over bushes, and took the lead in the gaiety with the verve of a young faun.

LES MISERABLES
Victor Hugo Melville


Definition from American Heritage Dictionary

 

 

Today's Fact

 


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Beetle Juice


An example of passive poisoning is found in blister beetles. Blister beetles protect themselves against attack by ejecting a caustic fluid. When the beetles are molested, they leak their hemolymph (insect blood) from their leg joints. Their blood contains the extremely irritating toxin cantharadin. Cantharidin causes sever blistering it is used in medicine as a skin irritant to remove warts.


The bombardier beetle is from the family of carnivorous ground beetles. Its enemy is the tiger beetle. It has a most unusual and effective defense against this enemy. Just as the jaws of the tiger beetle are about to close upon it, the bombardier fires a bomb. A tiny cloud of acrid, irritating vapor is released with a ''pop'' from the rear of the beetle's abdomen.

Major Source:More Misinformation, Tom Burnam | Our Amazing World of Nature - Reader's Digest

 
"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   

 

smile6.gif (2723 bytes) Procrastinator's Creed :

  • I believe that if anything is worth doing, it would have been done already.
  • I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses.
  • I will never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration.
  • I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.
  • I firmly believe that tomorrow holds the possibility for new technologies, astounding discoveries, and a reprieve from my obligations.
  • I truly believe that all deadlines are unreasonable regardless of the amount of time given.
  • I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, though infinitesmally small, is not exactly zero.
  • If at first I don't succeed, there is always next year.
  • I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind.
  • I shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when I get around to it.
  • I obey the law of inverse excuses which demands that the greater the task to be done, the more insignificant the work that must be done prior to beginning the greater task.
  • I know that the work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan.
  • I will never put off until tomorrow, what I can forget about forever.
  • I will become a member of the ancient Order of Two-Headed Turtles (the Procrastinator's Society) if they ever get it.

From: David A. Rinke II -- Funny Pages Mailing Lis

A man went to his office and bumped into one of his assistants.

He looked up and muttered, "My word! Look at you. You've lost weight. You've dyed your hair. You've replaced your glasses. You have even grown taller, Mike".


"Sir, my name is not Mike,"; replied the assistant.

"My Goodness! You have even changed your name!"

Speaker's Encyclopedia of Jokes, Puns, Riddles, Quotations & Alternate Dictionary

There was a tribe in Africa which was very fierce and warring...they would battle all the tribes in the area, and they always won. As a victory trophy, they would take the throne of the chief of the defeated tribe and carry it home, chanting victory chants and singing the whole way. When they got home, they would put the throne in the attic of the grass hut. This went on for quite some time, and soon the throne collection grew, adding to the prestige of the tribe.

One day, they battled a tribe of farily large people, some might call them giants. They won, and they struggled to get the throne home...but the chanting and joyesness prevailed as usual. When they got home, they had the ritual of putting the throne in the attic of the grass hut, but the weight was too much. The ceiling collapsed, killing everyone on the tribe.

The moral: People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones

Speaker's Encyclopedia of Jokes, Puns, Riddles, Quotations & Alternate Dictionary

Three Baptists

A Methodist minister meets three Baptist deacons on the golf course and invites them to come to his church some Sunday. Not too many weeks thereafter and just as services are starting, they show up.

Attendance was good in the small Methodist church and there wasn't a pew available. Several church members were already seated on folding chairs. When the minister, just starting the service, saw the three Baptist deacons enter, he leaned down from the pulpit and whispered to the nearest usher, "Please get three chairs for my Baptist friends in the back."

The usher, hard of hearing, leaned closer and said, "I beg your pardon?"

"Get three chairs for my Baptist friends," repeated the minister. The usher strained closer with a puzzled look still on his face.

Once more the minister tried, speaking slowly and distinctly. "Three chairs. For the Baptists," he enunciated.

The usher's face lit up in comprehension, and he turned to face the congregation.

"All right, everybody," he called out to the assembled worshipers. "Three cheers for the Baptists!"

At an outdoor press conference, Al Gore was addressing harsh criticism of being "lifeless as a statue."

"That is absurd," Gore stoically stated. "When elected, the people of America will see just how passionate and alive I truly am."

Embarrassed for her husband, Tipper, leaned in to whisper, "Honey, you have a pigeon on your head."

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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