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Today's Quotations –  POVERTY



The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

- Mother Teresa


Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

- Benjamin Franklin


I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

- Anatole France


We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

- Herbert Clark Hoover


It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

- Samuel Johnson


I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

- Melville D. Landon

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  Today's Word – HEINOUS
   


hei·nous adjective Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable. 
Jessica Farewell, good Launcelot.
Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
To be ashamed to be my father's child!
But though I am a daughter to his blood,
I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,
If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
Become a Christian, and thy loving wife.

The Merchant of Venice
William  Shakespeare

Joseph D. Adams, letter to TIME page 4, October 7, 1996.

Definition from American Heritage Dictionary

Today's Fact

 


philtrum

What is a philtrum? This is a frequently asked trivia question. The vertical crease on the mouth above the upper lip is called a philtrum. Trivia lovers and biologists probably already know this. But why do we have one?


A Pennsylvania folktale says that before a baby is born, it knows all the secrets of life and death. At the moment of birth an angel presses his forefinger against the baby's upper lip. This seals the lip of the baby. The baby no longer can speak of the secrets, and the crease is there for the rest of their life.

 

 

 

 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Psalm 139:14

 

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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   

 

Job Application

Never pride yourself on knowledge.

Remember, even a head of iceberg lettuce knows more than you do. It knows whether or not that light really does go out when the refrigerator door shuts. since"

 

 


 My daughter asked me one time, "Daddy, before you married Mommy, who told you how to drive?"

 

Q: What do you call two pigs fighting?

A: Ham to ham combat.

 "Coloring"

Two cab drivers met. "Hey," asked one, "what's the idea of painting one side of your cab red and the other side blue?"

"Well," the other responded, "when I get into an accident, you should see how all the witnesses contradict each other."

 

Great Pig

A city dweller was visiting a friend in the country and as they leaned against the fence talking, the city dweller saw the farmer's pig run past them and noticed that the pig had a wooden leg. Surprised at this, the city fella asked the farmer why the pig had a pegleg.

The farmer said, "Well, let me tell you about that pig. He is one fantastic little porker. Every morning, he fetches my newspaper from the front lawn, brings it into the house and puts it on my favorite easy chair. He herds both the sheep and the cow in from the field and puts them in the barn. He carries a pail of water with the handle in his mouth out to me in the field when I'm working. He
can operate all the gates on the place and when I drive in from town, I just honk the horn and he lets me through the gate. Why only last year he saved my life! I was out plowing the north 40 acres and my tractor rolled over on a hill, broke my leg and pinned me under the cab. My wife couldn't hear me when I was yelling for help, but that pig heard me. He come a running, dug me out from under the tractor, and dragged me to the house and then went and got a neighbor to come and help me."

"That's impressive indeed" said his city friend, "but what about that wooden leg?"

"Well," says the farmer, "a pig that valuable, you don't want to just eat him all at once!"

 

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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