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Peanut the cat sitting lazily on the stairs - A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. They say that opportunity only knocks once. But temptation seems to pound on my door forever. Even opening up and letting it in doesn't seem to make it go away. More temptations come along and the beating goes on. Those temptations that cause me the most

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Peanut the cat in captivity - The cat has too much spirit to have no heart Did you know that your money likely has traces of cocaine on it? A study by Jack Demirgian of the Argonne National Laboratory revealed that a full 78% of the currency circulating in Miami and other major US cities carries trace amounts of cocaine. That's probably true elsewhere, too. They were only looking for cocaine,

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Vibrant oil painting - The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual. I know one man who says he likes work. It fascinates him. He says he can sit

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Abalone mushrooms vegetables dish - All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Kevin is a boy who might be described as "slow." He didn't learn his ABCs as fast as other kids. He couldn't compete in schoolyard races.

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Wedding package promotion display - The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make / not just on your wedding day, but over and over again / and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. One of those strange newspaper stories told of a 19-year-old woman who had been charged in Los Angeles with two

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Fake/bootleg Transformers Starscream toy on sale - The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. One person jokingly says she never goes to bed angry. Instead, she stays awake and plots her revenge. As one story goes, a group of occupational soldiers hired a local boy to run errands for them. The soldiers liked to relieve stress by playing practical

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Gundam Sandrock assembled model kit - The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur. American President Woodrow Wilson once pointed out that "a man's rootage is more important than his leafage."

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Colorful plastic mesh strainer for sale - Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough Not long ago a commercial airliner, whose pilot was new to New York, landed at JFK Airport. He steered the jet onto a taxiway and stopped. Then slowly he began turning. First he nosed the aircraft to the right. Then to the left. Then he turned the plane completely around. Finally

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Giant China porcelain vases - Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. Writer Gary Jennings said this: "Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life, that cannot be bought, but only spent." I love that. And HOW I spend my love and time is what it is all

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Obama the dog on guard duty - “It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.” There are few things in this life more difficult to experience than the loss of one's child. Jim Wallis, in WHO SPEAKS FOR GOD tells

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Mix vegetables and sausages with rice for lunch - “An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.” A determined little turtle once climbed a tree. He somehow made it to the first branch. Then he jumped into the air waving his front legs and crashed to the ground. After a while he slowly climbed the tree again. And again he jumped. This time he

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Participants seated waiting for lunch to be served - “May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.” I'm not sure I can always tell love from passion. One father said of his teenaged son, "I don't know if he's in love or in heat!" What teenager would know? Besides,

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Business broadband products and services promotional booth - “The art of winning in business is in working hard - not taking things too seriously” Plato said that work should be play. Some airline employees have taken his injunction seriously. After landing, one flight attendant announced, "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we

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Office in a box service promotion booth - “It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service” Albert Einstein said that wonder is the source of all true art and all science. "He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." I remember standing in rapt awe when I gazed upon

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Product promotion seminar - “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it” Anonymous did it again. Whoever this person is put it well: "Follow your dream! Unless it's the one where you're at work in your underwear during a fire drill." Yes – some dreams should be forgotten as soon as possible. But when it comes to life dreams, rather than sleep dreams, I am

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Toll free phone service promotion booth - “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” Do you ever feel blah? Ever wish you had a permanent "picker-upper" ? If so, this may be for you. In the 1920s, if you were looking for a little pick-me-up with your mid-afternoon snack, you might have reached for a cold, refreshing

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Wheat grass drink - “See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.” Is your life full and busy? If you're like me, maybe it is TOO busy. Sometimes I fill my life so full doing things I think I SHOULD do, I don't have time for the things I WANT to do, even if some of those

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Informational brochures and pamphlets to give away - “Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover” People should never have to suffer loss alone. Yet, how do you comfort those who hurt? I think that offering genuine comfort to another is

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Papercraft convenience store - “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” One afternoon after the death of her grandfather, Carol lay huddled on her bed, sobbing forlornly. Her mother sat beside her and asked, "What's the matter, honey?" "I miss my grandpa, and I miss talking to him

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Mix jelly tea drink - “Love is strange and mysterious.. Just like Jelly beans..” Author Erynn Miller said: "It takes a lot of understanding, time and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. As I approach a time in my life of complete uncertainty, my friends are my most precious asset." I had a friend who felt that way. I sat next to Hal's "death-bed" and thought about the fact that I had

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Infoblast product promotion booth - “There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down / until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.” A school music teacher received this essay from an

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Papercraft gas station - “I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.” A doctor said to his patient, "You have a slight heart condition, but I wouldn't worry about it." "Really, Doc?" the patient replied. "Well, if you had a slight heart condition, I wouldn't worry about it either." We can sometimes get the

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Rows of seats - “A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form” We used to play spin the bottle when I was a kid," says comedy writer Gene Perret. "A girl would spin the bottle, and if the bottle pointed to you when it stopped, the girl

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Fried rice vermicelli with prawns - “It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.” For closeness: travel. No, I don't mean to go to take a road

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Groceries shopping at the frozen food section - “In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.” This simple checklist can help measure how you are nurturing your relationships. The author of these thoughts is unknown, but deeply appreciated. The

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Crispy butter chicken rice - “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” Plato said that work should be play. Some airline employees are taking him seriously. After landing, one flight attendant announced, "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride." (I

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Toy train decoration - “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” When was the last time you were challenged to do something really... well... great? President Abraham Lincoln helped me to understand that there is a bit of greatness

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Last week I went to visit my cousin as he has just moved in to his new house. To be honest, I thought long and hard about the ideal house warming gift for the occasion but came out blank. So I went to visit him empty handed. As he was showing me around the new house, something caught my eye in the kitchen. My cousin likes to cook during his free time and he stocks quite a bit of spices in his

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Papercraft air plane - “Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.” A man had an operation, and the doctor, by mistake, left a sponge in him. A friend asked him if he had any pain because of it. "No," said the man, "but I sure do get thirsty." Isn't it wonderful when we get thirsty - not for water, but thirsty to chase a dream or to so something different? I think it is

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Bigby the loving dog - “What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.” A sign in a pet store read, "If anybody has seen the Bluebird of Happiness, would you please notify this pet store?" Happiness seems to be in short supply for many people. If the results of recent surveys can be trusted, there is a general decline of

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Rear view of the proton saga base line model - “Maybe I could have loved you better. Maybe you should have loved me more. Maybe our hearts were just next in line. Maybe everything breaks sometime.” Groucho Marx quipped, "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." Though he is joking, I wonder if he is actually hitting close to home. I need to regularly check in

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Fried noodles packed up and ready to go - “He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime” Have you noticed how health insurance is like a hospital gown: every time you turn around, you find something that isn't covered? But health researchers are discovering what many people have known all along -- that getting healthy is about more than

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Office in a box table and stools - “Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.” Did you know that practicing some form of relaxation is

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Butter chicken rice - “Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.” A story about an old Bendix washing machine helped one man get through the valley of loss. * His parents acquired the washer when John Claypool was a small boy. It happened during World War II. His family owned no washing machine and, since gasoline was rationed, they could ill afford trips to the

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Dinner banquet food table - "There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.” Katharine Hepburn once said, "Life is hard. After all, it kills you." And it can kill you early if you don't figure out how to change. Let me explain. The expression "turning over a new leaf"

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Ice lemon tea - "When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” An unusual tribute was paid to Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg. The poet wrote, "Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect." Lincoln

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Just the other day I met up with the manager from my previous job in the retail chain industry to catch up with each other. Both of us have moved on from that company in different directions but we still keep in touch when the opportunity presents itself. During dinner, we talked about the rising cost of living and how our salaries are not keeping up with the rapid change. While on the subject

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Front view of proton sage base line model - "If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.” They say that opportunity only knocks once. But temptation seems to pound on my door forever. Even opening up and letting it in doesn't seem

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A bouquet of flowers - Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires Are you ready to be surprised? Life is full of surprises - to those who are aware. History records amazing coincidences in the lives of two of America's founders - Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams. You are aware that

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Malaysa Airlines plane on the runway - If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. A friend once told me of a caring and much-loved school nurse who died. She was well known by the faculty and students, as she had been there 35 years. When the principal an­nounced her death to the

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View inside the cabin of the plane - There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. Do you experiment with new attitudes and new behaviors? Do you constantly try to improve your skills? Do you make your life an "active science"? It is not hard to see what can happen when we refuse to improve ourselves. Do you know who set the standard

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Just the other day my uncle told me that he booked a cheap flight to Singapore to patronize the new Marina Bay Sands Casino. Now my uncle is known to be a leisure gambler with the intent of making some profit out of it. That said, he is no stranger when it comes to online casino gambling. A good tip from him is to pick one which has a live video feed of the dealer and the online roulette game

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Economy seats on Malaysia Airlines - Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door "The commonest and subtlest of all human diseases," a prominent physician said, "is fear." Fear is an incapacitating, paralyzing disease. We all fear at times, but many carry with them unnec­essary and destructive fears. We're afraid of the unknown. We're afraid of old age

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Aerial photo of the mouth of the river - Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness. I met a great teacher. She lived in a small Costa Rican village where my family vacationed. She was no formal educator, philosopher or person

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I got in touch with my good friend who was living in Florida last month. She was my travel buddy during my tour of Europe back in 2008. I was quite surprised when she told me she was moving to New York in a couple of weeks and was frantically looking for suitable Long Distance Movers to get the job done. When we talked on the phone I could feel that she was stressed out about the whole thing.

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Malaysian Airlines in flight meal - Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. "She who laughs, lasts." At least that was Theresa of Avila's philosophy. Theresa, a Spanish nun who founded the reformed order of the Carmelites in 1562, used to look for novices who knew how to laugh, eat and

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The MRT subway map found at Changi airport - Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. How are you at making decisions? Years ago, a city family bought a cattle ranch and moved to the

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Scene on the MRT - However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. Do you know the difference between a ther­mometer and a thermostat? A thermometer simply measures the temperature. It doesn't do anything about it. A thermostat measures the temperature and then responds. If the temperature is too

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Queen sized bed in the hotel room - One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed A funny story has it that in 1926 Thelma Goldstein from Chicago treated herself to her first real vacation in Florida. Unfamiliar with the area, she wandered into a "restricted" hotel in north Miami. Getting the attention of the manager, she said, "Excuse me

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BBQ chicken rice set meal for dinner - Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Do you feel your life is all

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Passengers on the MRT subway - I don't want to be a passenger in my own life One of your greatest assets is...your imagination! In his book THE WINNER'S EDGE, writer Denis Waitley tells of high school basketball players who were divided into three groups. Group One was told not to practice shooting free throws for one month. Group Two was told to practice shooting free throws in the gym every

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IT hardware equipment rack - Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. An old story is told of two men who went fishing in a small boat. The day was uneventful until one of them hooked a huge fish, which, in the strug­gle,

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Gundam model kits on display - Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty Economist Jeremy Gluck speculated on US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan's epitaph. He decided it would probably read something like this: "I am guardedly optimistic about the next

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Professional Gundam modeling works on display - “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” Ralph Waldo Emerson has accurately said, "One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." Today is an important day. That problem you solve, that decision you make,

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The window display of a Japanese collectibles store - “A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” Winston Churchill said, "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." Like humorist Bob Orben added, "That sounds a lot like our family vacations

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Fried wet noodles - “To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.” Imagine an artist painting a winter scene. She depicts a white, frozen ground and evergreens draped in snow. Her hand brings the day to a close as she paints night falling

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Roadside eatery at night - “Night has brought to those who sleep, only dreams they can not keep.” Tallulah Bankhead quipped, "Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." But the truth is...we DO have trouble being ourselves, don't we? Especially in a world that wants us to conform. "To be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best day and night into making

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Ceramic water fountain - “Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.” An American racing enthusiast entered his horse in Britain's famous Epsom Downs Steeple­chase. Just before the race began, he slipped his horse a white pellet. The Duke of Marlboro, who was serving as steward, caught the owner in the act and objected. "I say, old man, really you can't do that sort of thing over here

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Delicious breakfast food - “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” Do you remember the story of the sailor who over-imbibed and fell asleep at his table? His bud­dies smeared a bit of strong smelling cheese dip on his mustache, which caused him to wake up and look around. He sniffed and then walked out­side, sniffed again and came back in, walked out and back in one more time and finally sat

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View in a busy shopping mall - “The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.” Many of us feel passed over in a world that seems to place a high value on outward beauty. But a short poem by Anthony Ewell reminds us that physical attractiveness can be over-rated. He writes: As a beauty I am not a great star, There are others more handsome by far. But my face, I don't mind it, For

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Restocking the frozen fries section - “I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?"” Dante, the Florentine poet of the Middle Ages, knocked at the door of a Franciscan monastery at Lunigiana. He was asked, "What do you want?" Dante replied, "Peace." I think that maybe he was speaking for a lot of us --

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View at the frozen foods section - “Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope” You've heard it said that the best things in life aren't things. This truth is illustrated well by Andrea Jaeger. At age 14 Andrea won her first professional tennis tournament. At 15, she was the youngest player

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Front view of Macross Frontier VF-25F messiah model kit - “Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” Just as the delivery van pulled away from the florist, the manager came running out. There was a cancellation on one of the orders, and he needed it back. "Which one?" asked the driver. "The one that reads 'Darling,

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Dude! You forgot your box behind you! - “Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.” Theodore Levitt, of the Harvard Business School, said, "Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly." Theodore Levitt sounds like a wise person. I wonder what he's done badly. Based on his reasoning, I must be bursting with wisdom. Over the years, I've

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Recently it has become quite hard to find a stable form of financial investment. With the volatile stock markets and the ever so fluctuating oil prices the general outlook can be rather grim for most investors. Just the other day, my cousin, who majors in Economics and Business Studies, came by and I casually brought up the subject of investment. I asked him about the most stable form of

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View at the open air vegetables market - “An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.” They said he died. One morning in 1888, Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, the man who had spent his life amassing a fortune from the manufacture and sale of weapons of destruction, awoke to read his own obituary. Of course, it was a mistake. Alfred's brother

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Lemons for sale - “When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” At first it sounded like a Thanksgiving story, but the more I reflected on it, the more appropriate it seemed for any time of the year. The way I heard it, the story went like this: Thanksgiving Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment -- to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful.

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Jing Jing the dog relaxing on the floor - “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” Writer Norman Cousins tells about a football game at which a doctor found himself treating five spectators for stomach disorder. Each complained of nausea, dizziness and cramps. Upon checking, the doctor learned that all five had previously consumed soft

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Mobile Suit Gundam model kits - “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into

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Lotus flower in bloom - “The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” There are few things in this life more difficult to experience than the loss of one's child. Jim Wallis, in WHO SPEAKS FOR GOD tells about a sad and terrifying incident that occurred during the tragic war in Sarajevo not too many years back.

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Browsing through the Sunday morning market - “Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't

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Silicon baking trays for sale - “A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it” I'm not sure I can always tell love from passion. One father said of his teenaged son, "I don't know if he's in love or in heat!" What teenager would know? Besides, feelings of attraction can change more quickly than a pouty expression. But love, in its truest form, is

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Fresh vegetables for sale - “Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.” Plato said that work should be play. Some airline employees have taken his injunction seriously. After landing, one flight attendant announced, "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride." There's a flight attendant who

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Work gloves for sale - “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.” Albert Einstein said that wonder is the source of all true art and all science. "He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." I remember standing in rapt awe when I gazed upon the wonders of the ancient Incan city of Machu

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Fresh starfruits for sale - “Loving someone that doesn't love you is like reaching for a star. You know you'll never reach it, but you just got to keep trying.” Anonymous did it again. Whoever this person is put it well: "Follow your dream! Unless it's the one where you're at work in your underwear during a fire drill." Yes – some dreams should be forgotten as soon as possible. But when it

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One of my best kept guilty pleasure secret is I love hunting for Free Stuff on the net whenever I get the chance. Call it my strong sense of frugality or whatever that suits your fancy, there is no denying that wonderful good feeling of achievement whenever I am successful at grabbing any Freebies on the internet. Just recently, my 'Freebiemania' fascination has spread to my cousin and she was

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Little yellow chicks for sale - “Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.” Who was it that said, "Follow your dream - unless it's the one where you're at work in your underwear during a fire drill."? Author Joseph Campbell's advice was to "follow your bliss." American painter Grandma

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Steel ladles for sale - “Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.” A wiser person than I once said that humans have four basic needs. One is the need to be nurtured. Next is the need to be needed. Third, the need to be noticed. And finally, the need to be nudged. Although I never had much luck nudging my own children, I've often thought of a story about a

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