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QUOTES

Tell the truth and run.
-- Yugoslavian Proverb


The reverse side always has a reverse side.       
-- Japanese Proverb  

Wit is educated insolence.

--  Aristotle

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. -- Who knows?

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.  -- Shakespeare, Hamlet

 

Three o'clock is always too early or too late to do anything you want to do.   

-- Jean Paul Sartre

 

Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action.

-- Samuel Smiles


Action is the antidote to despair.  
-- Joan Baez

Action is character. 
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Adversity reveals genius.
     
-- Horace   

WORD POWER 

 
VOCABULARY

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sublimate -- purify   

  

revile -- slander, vilify

  

derelict -- abandoned

  

prattle -- babble  

   

actuate --motivate

 

wily -- cunning  

 

inter -- bury 

  

interpolate -- insert between

  

freebooter -- buccaneer

  

saturnine -- morose, gloomy  

 

balk -- foil

 

exculpate -- clear from blame 

 

imbue -- saturate

  

adroit -- skillful

  

lope -- gallop slowly 

  

unprepossessing -- unattractive

   

stringent -- binding, rigid 

 

leonine -- like a lion 

 

sanquinary -- bloody

  

chide - scold  
 
 

   

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(Washington, DC) -- Hundreds of companies partner with World Vision and send a clear message of corporate social responsibility to its customers, shareholders and employees.  Can you or your company make a difference for children and families in need worldwide?       

 

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.  

 

Product Donations -- Learn about the types of product donations we accept, how donating benefits your corporation, and how your donations impact the lives of children in the United States and abroad.

 

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SchoolTools Backpacks-- Learn how your group can make a huge difference in the lives of children in your own community by assembling School-Tools Backpacks for students in need.

 

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GEOGRAPHY

 

1. What European country is Greek for "monk"?  

 

2.  What term for elephant means "thick skin" in Greek? 

 

3.  What was the city of Edo renamed in 1869?

 

4.  What river do Mexicans call Rio Bravo?

 

5.  What European museum opened a controversial metal and glass pyramid entrance in 1989? 

 

ANSWERS: 1.) Monaco  2.) Pachyderm  3.) Tokyo  4.) Rio Grande  5.) The Louvre

 
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