Aristotle Quote – Courage and Honor
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle
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Napoleon Hill Quote – First Comes Thought
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” – Napoleon Hill
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Cartoon – A Healthy Dose of Counter-productivity
Eleanor Roosevelt Quote – If Life Were Predictable
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Read moreParker J. Palmer Quote – Stand In The Gap For The Long Haul
“No one who has stood for high values — love, truth, justice — has died being able to declare victory, once and for all. If we embrace values like those, we need to find ways to stand in the gap for the long haul, and be prepared to die without having achieved our goals.” – Parker J. Palmer
Read moreCharles Spurgeon Quote – Anxiety
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon
Read moreOutsourcing the care of our elderly
Germans are sending their aging parents abroad, said Anette Dowideit. With pensions flat and nursing costs rising, families often can’t afford to put Grandma in an elder-care program close to home. So over the past decade, they have turned to countries where such services are much cheaper— mostly in former Eastern bloc states like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and […]
Read moreScientist Injects Himself With ‘Eternal Life’ Bacteria
Anatoli Brouchkov, a scientist whose curiosity and thirst for knowledge drove him to go beyond the standard protocol of his experimentation by injecting himself with an ancient “Eternal Life” bacteria. In 2009, a 3.5-million-year-old bacteria strain called Bacillus F was discovered deep in the permafrost of Siberia’s Sakha Republic. Scientists later found that mice and fruit flies exposed to the bacteria seemed to […]
Read moreAre Pessimists more likely to die of heart disease?
Being a pessimist may be raising your blood sugars and blood pressure which may lead to heart disease. During an 11-year study of over 2000 men and women – some optimists and some pessimists – they found that the 121 people who died of heart disease were pessimists. The pessimists think that their lives are much gloomier, so they have […]
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