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Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.
--- Count Maurice Maeterlinck
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.
--- Thomas Jefferson
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WEEK (WEEK): A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
-----Bible Quote For Today-----
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be
with you forever - John 14:16 NIV
Comment: Jesus promises the Holy Spirit will take his place with the
disciples forever.
-----Submitted by Graham Weeks http://www.weeks-g.dircon.co.uk
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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
--- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On a Happy Life (L'Estrange's Abstract), chap. i.
* ***** Events For Today ("on this day")
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*-Condensed Milk patented
*-Olympics first held in US (1904)
*-First Passenger Flight
*-Vaseline trademarked
*-First Camel arrived in US
*-The first manned space station, Skylab I, completes
* first orbit (1973)
*-Football Goalposts first used in America
*-The "Prairie Dog" was discovered (1806)
*-Lewis and Clark left St. Louis (1804)
*-Battle of Nicea
*-First Vaccination Shot given (1796)
*-Women first competed in modern Olympic Games
*-US Speed Limit lowered to 40 mph (1942)
*-Zionist State of Israel declared (1948)
*-Tripoli declared war on US (1801)
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* ***** Births For Today (birthday trivia)
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*-Walter Berry
*-Thomas Gainsborough
*-Gabriel D. Farenheit
*-Robert Owen
*-George Lucas
*-Connie Brighton
*-Heloise
*-Season Hubley
*-Jennifer Allan
*-Otto Klemperer
*-Robert Zemeckis
*-Tim Roth
*-Bobby Darin
*-Jose Dennis Martinez
*-Ralph Neas
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Owen McManus
> *-Vaseline trademarked
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You seen that glove on his left hand?"
"Yeah. I seen it."
"Well, that glove's fulla vaseline."
"Vaseline? What the hell for?"
"Well, I tell ya what -- Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his
wife."
~John Steinbeck 1902–1968, Of Mice and Men (1937)
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Heidi
> *-Condensed Milk patented
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When Rabbit said,'Honey or condensed milk with your bread?' he was so
excited that he said, `Both,' and then, so as not to seem greedy, he
added, 'But don't bother about the bread, please.'
~A. A. Milne 1882-1956, Winnie the Pooh
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//Heidi