The festival was scheduled to be a biannual affair.
Standing next to the car, the children waved bye to the visitors.
Vincent went into town to buy a bicycle. He didn't realize it was the bicentennial celebration in town; so, he stood by the monument to watch. Then he saw Stanley, a friend. They chatted and then they waved bye to each other as Stanley was carrying his little son, who smiled and waved bye-bye to Vincent.
The Flora and Fauna story
by Barbara Krahn-ChiussiOn November 8, 1998, there was an article in “Dear Ann Landers” titled, “Lawyer-bashing: Sometimes wounds are self-inflicted.”
“The Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers Journal printed the following questions actually asked of witnesses by lawyers during a trial. The responses to some of the questions were given by insightful witnesses. This is not a put-on. It’s for real. —Ronita in Center Line, Michigan”
- Question: Now, doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn’t know about it until the next morning?
- Question: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how old is he?
- Question: Were you present when your picture was taken?
- Question: Was it you or your younger brother who was killed in the war?
- Question: Did he kill you?
- Question: How far apart were the vehicles at the time of the collision?
- Question: You were there until the time you left, is that true?
- Question: She had three children, right?
Answer: Yes.
Question: How many were boys?
Answer: None.
Question: How many were girls?
- Question: You say the stairs went down to the basement?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And these stairs, did they go up, also?
- Question: How was your first marriage terminated?
Answer: By death.
Question: And by whose death was it terminated?
- Question: Can you describe the individual?
Answer: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Question: Was this a male or a female?
- Question: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice that I sent to your attorney?
Answer: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
- Question: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people?
Answer: All my autopsies are performed on dead people.
- Question: All your responses must be oral. OK? What school did you go to?
Answer: Oral.
- Question: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
Answer: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
Question: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?
Answer: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy.
- Question: Mr. Slatery, you went on a rather elaborate honeymoon, didn't you?
Answer: I went to Europe, sir.
Question: And you took your new wife?
- Question: So the date of conception was August 8th?>
Answer: Yes.
Question: And what were you doing at the time?
- Question: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
Answer: I have been since early childhood.
- Question: You were not shot in the fracas?
Answer: No, I was shot midway between the fracas and the navel.
Oh, well! That's the way it goes sometimes.
But thought it best to make me first.
So I was made before the man,
To answer God's most holy plan.
This body He did make complete,
But without legs or arms or feet;
My ways and actions He did not control,
But I was born without a soul.
A living being I became;
'Twas Adam gave me my name;
When from his presence I withdrew,
I no more of Adam ever knew.
I did my Maker's laws obey;
From them I never went astray.
Thousands of miles I roamed in fear,
And seldom on the earth appear.
But God did something in me see,
And put a living soul in me,
A soul of me my God did claim,
And took from me that soul again.
And when from me that soul had fled,
I was the same as when first made;
And without hands, or feet, or soul,
I travel now from pole to pole.
I labor hard both day and night;
To fallen men I give great light;
Thousands of people, young and old,
May by my death great light behold.
To heaven I shall never go,
Nor to the grave, nor Hell below,
Now as these lines my friend you read,
Just search the Scriptures with great heed,
And if my name you do not find,
It's very strange; I guess you're blind.
More than a century ago, there resided in Beverly, Massachusetts, an elderly lady by the name of Lucy King, who was a student of the Scriptures. In the neighboring town of Taunton lived a merchant who had a reputation for successfully answering the most perplexing riddles.
One day, he offered a prize to Miss King if she could compose a riddle which he could not answer, the subject being taken from the Bible. She created the riddle shown above and won the prize.
insurgents: Those who belong to a group of people fighting to take control of their country by force.
blast: An explosion, especially one caused by a bomb.
remote:
detonated the bomb remotely:
"Insurgents tricked an 8-year-old girl in a remote area of central Afghanistan into carrying a bomb wrapped in a cloth and then detonated the bomb remotely when she was close to a policed vehicle. Only the girl was killed in the blast."
Comes to me o’er and o’er;
Nearer to my home today am IThan e’er I’ve been before.
Nearer my Father’s house,
Where many mansions be;
Nearer today, the great white throne,Nearer the crystal sea.
Nearer the bound of life
Where burdens are laid down;
Nearer to leave the heavy cross,Nearer to gain the crown.
But lying darkly between,
Winding down through the night,
Is the deep and unknown streamTo be crossed ere we reach the light.
Father, perfect my trust!
Strengthen my power of faith!
Nor let me stand, at last, aloneUpon the shore of death.
Be Thee near when my feet
Are slipping over the brink;
For it may be I’m nearer home,Nearer now than I think.
Than hear one any day;
I'd rather one should walk with meThan merely show the way.
The eye's a better pupil,
And more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing,But example's always clear.
The best of all the preachers
Are the men who live their creeds,
For to see good put in action,Is what everybody needs.
I can soon learn how you do it,
If you let me see it done;
I can watch your hands in action,But your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver
May be very wise and true;
But I'd rather get my lesson,By observing what you do,
For I may misunderstand you,
And the high advice you give,
But there's no misunderstandingHow you act and how you live.
2. How does anyone learn the art of converting defeat into stepping stones to opportunity?
3. All achievements have their beginnings in ideas because thoughts are things!
- Ideas can be powerful things when they are mixed with a definite purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translations into definite objectives.
- One sound idea is all that a person needs to achieve success.
- Achievements begin with a state of mind and with a definite purpose.
- Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
- One of the principles of success is desire: knowing what one wants.
- DESIRE is the starting point of ALL achievement!
- Choosing a definite goal places all the energy, all the will power, all the effort, everything, back to that goal.
- Desiring success with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire success, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring success.
- There is one quality which a person must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- A burning desire to be and to do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.
- Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
- Remember that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive".
- No one is ready for any thing until that person believes that it can be acquired. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what "they" say if you meet with temporary defeat, for "they", perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Yes, you can! (page 1)
2. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.
Faith is the visualization of, and belief in attainment of desire
Faith is the head chemist of the mind and when faith is blended with thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.
- Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of autosuggestion.
- Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.
- Your belief, or faith, is the element which determines the action of your subconscious mind.
- It is essential that people encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of their minds, and to discourage and to eliminate negative emotions.
- It is a well-known fact that people come, finally, to believe whatever they repeat to them selves, whether the statements are true or false. People are what they are because of the dominating thoughts which they permit to occupy their minds.
- Thoughts which are mixed with any of the feelings of emotions constitute a "magnetic" force which attracts other similar or related thoughts.
The law of autosuggestion, through which anyone may rise to altitudes of achievement which stagger the imagination, is well described in the following composition:
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a person's will;
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the strongest or fastest woman or man,
But sooner or later, those who win
Are those WHO THINK THEY CAN!
Yes, you can! (page 1)