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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 18, 2011 15:03:38 GMT -5
Ah, CW, you have the wrong idea about John Adams. He wasn't a Puritan, but actually quite a worldly man. It's just that he's been overshadowed by others. He was a brilliant lawyer (defended the British soldiers involved in the so-called Boston Massacre and got them off) and he wrote the Massachusetts state constitution still enforce today. And he had a genuine love affair with Abigail. The were apart for long periods of time durng the revolution and after until he retired after running for a 2nd term as president. And they wrote 100s of letters to each other. To get a good picture of him, you should read the David McCullough biography of John Adams. It's really quite excellent.
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Post by Coldwarrior on Aug 19, 2011 6:44:40 GMT -5
Peg, I think we have that book among our collection. I seem to recall my wife reading it. It may have been donated to our city library or disbursed to one of our kids. We have more books than shelves to keep them. I never saw much sense in storing books in boxes tucked away in the attic. For most books today the paper will deteriorate from acids in the paper. Few will last for long. A few months ago, I reached the point of mental retirement. I gave all the reference books collected over my career to my son who unfortunately and against my advice followed dad into a similar line of work. He also inherited architectural design books for timber framed houses. That was my dream home once but the dream died when reality arose.
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 19, 2011 9:20:52 GMT -5
My family has books tucked away everywhere, attics to basements and everywhere in between. I've got boxes of them tucked away in my son's attic and he can do with them what he will. My favs are with me. Mind you, I live in a trailer, 2 bedroom, but a trailer. I have 3 84" book shelves, 3 half-size book cases amd 3 corner book cases all filled to capacity with books. My printer stand has turned into another book case and there are piles from the kitchen to the bedroom of them. I pay the costs of the trailer in order to house my books!!! And at least half are paperbacks!
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 19, 2011 12:32:19 GMT -5
QUOTES OF THE DAY:
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was born at Englewood, New Jersey on August 19th in 1919, the son of a Scottish immigrant who had founded Forbes magazine two years before. When he graduated from Princeton, his father gave him a weekly newspaper in Ohio. He enlisted in the Army and served as a machine gun sergeant in Europe where he received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He took over the family's magazine in 1957 and managed it until his death in 1990. The last page of each issue were quotations he had selected under the headline "Thoughts on the Business of Life". Quotes: All from Malcolm Forbes, 1919 - 1990
"If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere."
"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too."
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
"Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now."
"The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do."
"I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e."
Quotes for Today:
Thought of the Day: "Cheer up1 The worst is yet to come!" Philander Chase Johnson, author (1866-1939)
Quote of the Day: "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." Charles de Gaulle, Pres. of France (1890--1970)
Quote of the Moment: "There is no power greater than right action in the present moment." --Yoga Vasisthan, Hindu spiritual text (11th-14th century A.D.)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 21, 2011 11:18:29 GMT -5
Quotes for Today:
Thought of the Day: "I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential." --Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman & educator (1924-2005)
Quote of the Day: "Diplomacy--the art of saying "Nice doggie" till you can find a rock." --Woody Allen, comedian & film director (b. 1935)
sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img] Quote of the Moment: "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." -- Stephen Hawking, cosmologist/theoretical physicist (b. 1942) [/size][/color][/font]
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 22, 2011 13:41:07 GMT -5
Quotes for Today:
Thought of the Day: "There are mighty few people who think what they think they think." --Robert Henri, artist (1865-1929)
Quote of the Day: "It is better to learn late than never." --Publilius Syrus, Latin maxim writer (1st century B.C.)
Quote of the Moment: "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense." --Carl Sagan, astronomer & author (1934-1996)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 23, 2011 10:54:33 GMT -5
Quotes for Today. 8-)Dorothy Rothschild was born at West End, N.J. on August 22nd in 1893. She didn't enjoy life, and made a reputation for bitter commentary of great style and acid wit as Dorothy Parker. For most of her life, her work was welcomed by the public and editors, although she was fired at Vanity Fair for scathing reviews of Broadway productions. Despite being one of the most quoted writers in America, she struggled with alcohol and depression, and attempted suicide four times. Her acid pen sometimes dripped poetry as well as prose. QUOTES:
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges.
Thoughts for a Sunshiny Morning: It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. "Aha, my little dear," I say, "Your clan will pay me back some day."
Unfortunate Coincidence: By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying, Lady, make a note of this — One of you is lying.
Thought of the Day: "All life is a concatenation of ephemeralities." --Alfred E. Kahn, economist (1917-2010)
Quote of the Day: "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." --Gail Godwin, novelist & short story writer (b. 1937)
Quote of the Moment: "Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it." --Colin Powell, ret. US Gen. & Secretary of State (b. 1937)
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 24, 2011 12:31:22 GMT -5
Quotes for Today: On August 23rd in 1833, Great Britain lifted the chains of slavery in all her colonies. On this day in 1939, von Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact, bringing chains to millions in Eastern Europe. And on this day in 1989, the fiftieth anniversary of that pact, two million people formed a 600 kilometer (370 mile) "Baltic Chain" of protest across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Quotes: It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), 1694 - 1778
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. - Simone Signoret, 1921 - 1985
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. - Thomas Dekker, 1577 - 1632
If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. - Maya Angelou
Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822
Thought of the Day: "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." --Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher (6th century B.C.)
Quote of the Day: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." --Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman (1874-1965)
sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img] Quote of the Moment: "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." -- Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984)[/size][/color][/font]
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 25, 2011 16:00:00 GMT -5
Quotes for Today on Deadlines: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams, 1952 - 2001
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." - Frank Zappa, 1940 - 1993
"For truth there is no deadline." - Heywood Campbell Broun, 1888 - 1939
"I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time." - Margaret Atwood
A"re you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'." - Tom Robbins
"One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines." - Emile Zola, 1840 - 1902
Thought of the Day: "Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right." --Kurt Herbert Adler, Austrian-born conductor (1905-1988)
Quote of the Day: "I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it." --Garrison Keillor, humorist & radio host (b. 1942)
sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img] Quote of the Moment: "I feel the greatest gift w can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self." -- Fred Rogers, Presbyterian minister & TV host (1928-2003) [/size][/color][/font]
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 26, 2011 18:24:18 GMT -5
Quotes for Today:
Thought of the Day: "While we read history, we make history." --George William Curtis, author-editor (1824-1892)
Quote of the Day: "But what is the difference between literataure and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read at all. That is all." --Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright (1854-1900)
sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img] Quote of the Moment: "The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questins." -- Claude Levi-Strauss, French anthropologist (1908-2009)[/size][/color][/font]
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 27, 2011 11:22:31 GMT -5
Quotes for Today:
Thought of the Day: "Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights." --Georg Wilhelm Hegel, German philosopher (1770-1831)
Quote of the Day: "Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet." --Chinese proverb.
sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img] Quote of the Moment: "We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose." -- Indira Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister (1917-1984) [/size][/color][/font]
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 28, 2011 17:55:46 GMT -5
Quotes of the Today about Back to School:
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us. - John Boynton Priestley, 1894 - 1984
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. - Victor Hugo, 1802 - 1885
By the end of high school I was not an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one. - Clifton Fadiman, 1904 - 1999
Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious I and Obvious II in school. - Jim Rohn, 1930 - 2009
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree? - Mortimer J. Adler, 1902 - 2001
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to come, in time, to an understanding of the best writing of the present. He will teach literature, not social studies or little lessons in democracy or the customs of many lands. And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed. - Flannery O'Connor, 1925 - 1964
Thought for Today: "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." --Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel, Romanian-born jounalist-author (b. 1928)
Quote of the Day: "It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant." --Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines
sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img] Quote of the Moment: "All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give." -- Catherine Drinker Bowen, violinst & writer (1897--1973) [/size][/color][/font]
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 30, 2011 13:38:55 GMT -5
Quotes for Today: Along the eastern seaboard of the US, millions were visited by Irene, a hurricane that howled in areas that don't have a great deal of experience with them. It will be expensive and lives (41) were lost. "The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over." - Aesop, ancient Greek fabulist
"Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world." - Charles Hanson Towne, 1877 - 1947
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." - James Russell Lowell, 1819 - 1891
"And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying." - Marcel Proust, 1871 - 1922
"The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows; a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose." - Frank Herbert, 1920 - 1986
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles." - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862
Thought of the Day: "Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals." --Dorothy Height, civil rights activist (1912-2010)
Quote of the Day: "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." --Sir Richard Burton, English explorer & writer (1831-1890)
[/img] Quote of the Moment: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint Exupery, French writer (1900-1944) [/size][/color][/font]
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Post by Miss Who on Aug 30, 2011 16:09:53 GMT -5
Good night Peg and Tuxy and everyone.
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Post by a on Aug 30, 2011 16:26:55 GMT -5
Good night Miss Who!
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Post by susala on Aug 30, 2011 18:10:07 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: "Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals." --Dorothy Height, civil rights activist (1912-2010) **********************************************************
I had never heard of Dorothy Height until a few years ago. She was a remarkable woman. From what I've read, despite her major contributions to the Civil Rights movement, she was frequently pushed aside by chauvinist male leaders in the movement when it came to sharing power.
I learned a lot in 2008.
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Post by Miss Who on Aug 31, 2011 1:27:42 GMT -5
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Post by a on Aug 31, 2011 5:53:55 GMT -5
Good morning!
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Post by Flying Horse on Aug 31, 2011 12:03:50 GMT -5
Quotes for Today: "Gosh, Van, do we have to go through this again?" Yes, Back to School Week is a tradition and just like real life and the current lives of younger readers: Summer ends and it's time to go back to school and meet a new set of teachers. If that's intimidating to you, just think what it's like for the Teachers, outnumbered at least thirty-to-one.
"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building." - A. (Angelo) Bartlett Giamatti, 1938 - 1989
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." - Patricia Neal
"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." - Carl Jung, 1875 - 1961
"What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows." - Paulo Coelho
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'" - Maria Montessori, 1870 - 1952
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1803 - 1873
Thought of the Day: "When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart." --John Bunyan, English author (1628-1688)
Quote of the Day: "In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses." --Calvin Trillin, writer & humorist (b. 1935)
sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1056/1056048gfr2ahr4mi.gif [/img] Quote of the Moment: "Success has a simple formula: do your best and people may like it." -- Sam Ewing, MLB player & sports psychologist (b. 1949) [/size][/color][/font]
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Post by a on Sept 3, 2011 9:46:01 GMT -5
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Oscar Wilde
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