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It Takes For Evil To triumph Is For Good Men To Do Nothing ! -- author Unknown |
| When
you change the way you look at things; the things you look at change. |
"There
is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the
troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the negro race before
the public. Some of these people do not want the negro to lose his
grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is
a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient
to get well.
-- Booker T. Washington, 1911 |
| The Ten Commandments
"and
God spoke all these words, saying: 'I am the LORD your God
- ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
- TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness
of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth
beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.'
- ThrEE: 'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in
vain.'
- FOUR: 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.'
- FIVE: 'Honor your father and your mother.'
- SIX:
'You shall not murder.'
- SEVEN: 'You shall not commit adultery.'
- EIGHT:
'You shall not steal.'
- NINE: 'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.'
- TEN: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not
covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female
servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your
neighbor's.'
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Red
Skelton's Commentary on the U.S. Pledge of allegiance:
as
a schoolboy in Vincennes, Indiana, one of Red Skelton's teachers
explained the words and meaning of the Pledge of allegiance
to his class. Skelton later wrote down, and eventually recorded,
his recollection of this lecture. It is followed by an observation
of his own
I
Me; an individual; a committee of one
Pledge
Dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without
self-pity
allegiance
My love and my devotion
To
the Flag
Our standard; Old Glory ; a symbol of courage; and
wherever she waves there is respect, because your loyalty has
given her a dignity that shouts, "Freedom is everybody's job."
United
That means that we have all come together
States
Individual communities that have united into forty-eight
great states. Forty-eight individual communities with pride and
dignity and purpose. all divided by imaginary boundaries, yet
united to a common cause, and that is love of country... of america
and
to the Republic Republic
--a sovereign state in which power is invested in representatives
chosen by the people to govern. and government is the people;
and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders
to the people
For
which it stands
One
Nation
One nation meaning, so blessed by God
Indivisible
Incapable of being divided
With
liberty
Which is Freedom; the right of power for one to live
his own life, without fears, threats, or any sort of retaliation
and
Justice
The principle, and qualities, of dealing fairly with others
For
all
For all--that means, boys and girls, it's as much your
country as it is mine. and now, boys and girls, let me hear you
recite the Pledge of allegiance:
I
pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of america,
and to the Republic, for which it stands; one nation, (under God)*,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Since
I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country,
and two words have been added to the Pledge of allegiance: *Under God. Wouldn't it be a
pity if someone said that is a prayer, and that would be eliminated
from schools, too? -- Red Skelton |
"It
is not the critic who counts, not the man who points how the strong
man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly.
Who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions. Who spends himself in a worthy
cause. Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement;
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly so that his place will never be with those timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt |
"We trained hard,
but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into
teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that
we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful
method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing
confusion, inefficiency and demoralization."
-- Petronius arbiter (210 B.C.) |
"It
is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning
to live."
-- Marcus aurelius (121 - 80 B.C.) |
TODDLER
PROPERTY LAWS
- If I like
it, it's mine.
- If it's
in my hand, it's mine.
- If I can
take it from you, it's mine.
- If I had
it a little while ago, It's mine.
- If it's
mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.
- If I'm
doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.
- If it looks
just like mine, it's mine.
- If I think
it's mine, it's mine.
-- Provided by Rich Mironov |
Subject:
lipstick at School
according
to a news report, a private school recently
faced a unique problem. a number of 12 year old girls
were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom.
That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would
press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.
Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next
day, the girls would put them back.
Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She
called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the
maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were
causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the
mirrors every night.
To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors,
she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort
was required.
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet,
and cleaned the mirror with it. Since then, there have been no
lip prints on the mirror.
There are teachers, and then... there
are educators.... |
"To
anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid,
here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out in speech at
a high school about 11 things the students did not learn in school.
He talks about how feel good politically correct teachings created
a full generation of kids with no concept of reality, and how
this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Here's
what he said:
Rule 1: life is not fair, get used to it.
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world
will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about
yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $ 40,000 a year right out of high school.
You won't be a Vice-president with a car phone, until you earn
both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get
a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents
had a different word for burger flipping they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it is NOT!! Your parents' fault. So don't
whine about your mistakes; learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as
they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning
your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you are.
So, before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your
parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers,
but life has not. In some schools, they have abolished failing
grades, and they will give you as many times, as you want, to
get the right answer. This does not bear the slightest resemblance
to aNYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers
off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find
yourself. You have to do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually
have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."
-- Bill Gates |
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