Ponder for 2/12/2009

Everybody lies, but it doesn’t matter since nobody listens.
- Anonymous
 
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
- John D. Rockefeller
You should give as you would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
- Seneca
 
He who cannot give anything cannot feel anything [...]

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Ponder for 12/4/2008

Did you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
- Robert Orben
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
- Phillip K. Dick
I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the [...]

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Ponder for 11/14/2008

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Dorothy Parker
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
- Mark Twain
 
If the truth doesn’t save us, what does that say about us?
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Anybody can become angry, that is [...]

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Socialization….with a twist.

I snatched this from one of the sites that I read (incognito)….Thanks, Angela!!  (Oh, and I love your blog.) 
Author Unknown
Two women meet at a playground, where their children are swinging andplaying ball. The women are sitting on a bench watching. Eventually, they begin to talk.
W1: Hi. My name is Maggie. My kids are [...]

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Ponder for 10/24/2008

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Anonymous
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
 
Practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money [...]

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Ponder for 10/8/2008

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
- Quintilian
There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous.
- Aristotle
 

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to be credible.  
- Mark Twain
 

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the [...]

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Ponder for 9/28/2008

“When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
- Omar Kayan

“We need not worry so much about what man descends from-it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.”
- Mark Twain“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not [...]

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Ponder for 8/27/2008

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.
- Thomas Jefferson
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
- Mark Twain
 
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people [...]

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Ponder for 8/8/08

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
- Mark Twain
Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of [...]

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Ponder for 7/20/2008

The only reason some people get lost in thought is that it is unfamiliar territory.
- Paul FixIntelligent people know of what they speak; fools speak of what they know.
- Minchas Shabbos Pirkei Avos

 
None is richer than he who simply has peace of mind.  
- Maj Wambebe
 

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the [...]

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