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QUOTES

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. -- Pericles 

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.  
-- Jim Rohn

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

-- Jean Vanier 


The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
-- Richard Moss  

It is what a woman thinks of herself that really determines her fate.
 
-- Henry David Thoreau (revised).

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.  -- Oscar Wilde

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.  -- Bernice Johnson Reagon

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

-- David Russell

 

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

-- Marcel Pagnol  

 

WORD POWER

VOCABULARY

from the  

Graduate Record Exam

 

tacit adj. 

unspoken

 

taciturn adj.
habitually untalkative or silent


tractable adj.

ability to be easily managed or controlled   


turpitude n. 

depravity' baseness 

 

tyro n.

beginner; offense; sense of injury.

 

umbrage n. 

shadow; capability to produce a desired effect.

 

vex v. 

to annoy; to bother; to perplex; to puzzle; to debate at length. 

 

usury n. 

lending money at high interest rates

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Here's how:

Matching Gifts & Workplace Giving --  Learn how payroll deductions, stock donations, and employer matches can create the socially responsible corporate environment you seek while helping others in need around the world.

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 ESSENTIAL TRIVIA Answers
 
   

   

Jump start your meeting !

 

1. Who is the Barber of Seville? Figaro

 

2.  What does a scruple measure in the U.S.? Weight  

 

3.  What Nepalese City means "wooden temples"? Kathmandu  

 

4.  What currency must a foreigner use to pay the $20 airport tax to fly out of Zimbabwe? U.S. dollars (!)  

 

5.  What ball sport features legalized betting for its U.S. spectators? Jai alai 

 
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