THE OLDER GENERATION You know you're a part of the older generation if you can't hear the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of The Lone Ranger.
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES A sandwich board sign on Wall Street: THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING . . . START PLEA BARGAINING.
EXPERIENCE We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile. Grace Williams, as reported in Forbes.
A WORD FOR PREJUDICE Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt, in Forbes
RESPONSIBILITIES If you haven't got an ulcer, you're not carrying your share of the load. Funny, Funny World
THE IMPOSSIBLE What nobody can do until somebody does. Bits and Pieces
LIFE is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends upon what you are made of. The Evangel, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Saratoga, California.
WRITING There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. Red Smith
HOPE We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. MAXIMS La Rochefoucauld
HOPE The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope. THE RAMBLER Samuel Johnson
HOPE Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, /And hope without an object cannot live. WORK WITHOUT HOPE Samuel Taylor Coleridge
HOPE In all the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of the plums. THE CATSPAW Douglas Jerrold
FEELING IMPORTANT The secret of making another person feel important is to tell him a secret. He will feel important when he shares it with someone else.
THE BEST TEACHER A good scare teaches more than good advice. On the Upbeat
MISTAKES If you find mistakes in this publication, please consider: they are there for a reason. We publish something for everyone, and some people are always looking for mistakes! (Well, that's human nature.)
VIVA LA DIFFERENCE Did you read the book review of Mixed Company: Women in the Modern Army by Helen Rogan? It was in Time magazine, Nov 16, 1981. It was about the program of integrating…
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LASTLY Lonnie shares with us this little bon mot: Theology is dawned in Germany, translated in England, corrupted in the United States, and exported to Latin America. Theology.
PRIORITIES I 'd rather be able to pray than be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray. D. L. Moody, quoted in Leadership
