Do The Right Thing
In one of the Peanuts comic strips, Lucy is positioned behind her now famous “Psychiatric Help, Five cents” stand. Charlie Brown arrives for some advice. Charlie says, “My trouble is […]
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Greed
The Goblins Are Coming!
In a newspaper cartoon, two distinguished-looking gentlemen are comfortably seated on soft, upholstered chairs in an upscale office. One says to the other, “Last night I had a most terrible
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The Road To Somewhere
A pious woman had a dream one night in which one of the town’s best-known scoundrels died and was on his way to heaven. But, because of many misdeeds, the
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In Gold We Trust?
In “The Book of Lists,” there is a collection of “Memorable Boners” which includes the following: In 1961, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City displayed a painting
For The Peasants? No!
Henry Thoreau once said, “Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.” There was an economics professor who began each new course with the sentence, The unique
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You Are Richer Today…
In the 1980’s, often referred as the decade of greed, a new word was coined to describe young, “upwardly mobile” people obsessed with the desire for quick financial success: “Yuppie.”
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What Makes The World Go ’round?
An extremely wealthy man, reflecting on his business career and the life it brought him, said, “If you go into the business world with the idea of satisfying all your
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The More He Gave …
We are living in a time of … Taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; higher incomes, but lower morals; more knowledge, but less wisdom; fancier houses,
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Success Story
“Then I saw a new Heaven and a new earth, and the main street of the city was pure gold,” wrote the author of the Book of Revelation. No doubt
