Minggu, 31 Juli 2011

Berton Averre – to err, to forgive

“To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.” ~Berton

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Anne Wilson Schaef – grieving process

“We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.” ~ Anne Wilson

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Diogenes

"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not

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Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down."

Buffy

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Jumat, 29 Juli 2011

Willa Cather

"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."

Willa

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Walter Annenberg

"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."

Walter

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Senin, 25 Juli 2011

Louisa May Alcott – beauty

Taupo, New Zealand – 11 October 2009“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.” ~Louisa May

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Katherine Kelly Lang (50)

In 1961, Katherine Kelly Lang was born on this date in Hollywood, California,

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Jumat, 22 Juli 2011

Bern Williams

"People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip."

Bern

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Ingrid Bergman

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

Ingrid

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Friendship quotes-Beautiful discovery

"The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart". -Elisabeth

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Selasa, 19 Juli 2011

Anne Sullivan

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Anne

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Martin Buber

When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, "Have faith and take your troubles to God." Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.

Martin

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Senin, 18 Juli 2011

Friendship quotes-Connection to life

"A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world". - Lois

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Hubert H. Humphrey

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

Hubert H.

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E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

“We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education … We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.” E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

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Minggu, 17 Juli 2011

Polly Berrien Berends

"The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving."

Polly Berrien

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Sabtu, 16 Juli 2011

Kamis, 14 Juli 2011

Rabu, 13 Juli 2011

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. -Churchill, Winston

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. -Churchill,

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Deep thoughts-A woman's feelings

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield

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Selasa, 12 Juli 2011

Emily Kimbrough – comfort

“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” ~Emily

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Thought for Today – peace in heart

“There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.” ~Thought for

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Senin, 11 Juli 2011

Bible Verse of the Day – John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her(Martha), “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe

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Bible Verse of the Day – Jeremiah 14:22

Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all

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Minggu, 10 Juli 2011

The Los Alfaques Disaster (1978)

The Los Alfaques disaster was an explosion that took place near a campsite in Tarragona, Spain, when a leaking tanker truck loaded with 23 tons of highly flammable liquid propylene ignited. This resulted in a massive explosion and fireball that reached over 1000° F (538° C) and destroyed everything within a 1000-ft (300-m) radius. It killed 217 people, including the truck’s driver, and severely burned more than 200. What regulations were later instituted to prevent future disasters of

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Chemical Cause of Sunburn Soreness

Anyone who has ever suffered a serious sunburn knows that it hurts, but now scientists say they have begun to unravel why sunburns are so painful. They have pinpointed a chemical in the body, CXCL5, that triggers pain and is produced when the skin is exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Further testing on rats showed that a neutralizing antibody that targeted this chemical could reduce the sensitivity to pain caused by UVB irradiation. The findings could help researchers develop pain

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Jeff Dunham: Difficulty in Being Politically Correct

Jeff Dunham: You’re afraid of offending people? Achmed: Yeah. Jeff Dunham: You’re a terrorist. You kill people. Achmed: That’s different. Killing people is easy; being politically correct is a pain in the

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"Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two – The friend I’ve wept and the maid I woo" – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two – The friend I’ve wept and the maid I woo” – Samuel Taylor

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Sabtu, 09 Juli 2011

Pliny’s Natural History

Pliny the Elder was a Roman scholar famous for his Historia Naturalis—Natural History—an encyclopedia published in 77 CE. His one surviving work, it is divided into 37 books that survey all the known sciences of the day, notably geography, anthropology, zoology, mineralogy, and botany. Although the work was the European authority on scientific matters up to the Middle Ages, it is of uneven accuracy. Pliny was in the process of revising the work when he died observing what disaster?

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Conrad Hall

"Contrast is what makes photography interesting."

Conrad

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Jumat, 08 Juli 2011

Selasa, 05 Juli 2011

Baltasar Gracian

"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."

Baltasar

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Senin, 04 Juli 2011

Calvin Coolidge

"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."

Calvin

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Arne Jacobsen

"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."

Arne

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Minggu, 03 Juli 2011

Anton Chekhov

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."

Anton

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Aristotle

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward

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Jumat, 01 Juli 2011