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15 November 2011 

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Two men look out through the same bars; one sees mud, the other sees stars.
 --
F. Langbridge 

Gratitude  is happiness doubled by wonder. 
-- G.K. Chesterton

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
-- Henry Ward Beecher 
 

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.    

-- Maria Robinson 

 

To love is to risk not being loved in return.  To hope is to risk pain.  To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
  
-- Anyone know? 

 

Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.

-- French Proverb 

 

Love:  A grave mental illness.   

-- Plato

  

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. 

-- Steven Hawking 

WORD POWER 

VOCABULARY

Graduate Record Exam

  

arroyo -- gully   

  

forbearance -- patience

  

quiescent -- at rest, dormant 

 

obtrusive -- pushing toward 

   

assail -- assault 

 

parlance -- language, idiom 

 

genesis -- origin, beginning  

  

unequivocal-- plain, obvious

  

sinister -- evil

  

flotilla -- small fleet   

 

distaff -- female

 

eschew -- avoid

  

Sources:

  

www.manythings.org www.grevocabulary.org

www.testpreview.com 

   

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Wishing you a warm and spirited Thanksgiving   

Full of love and cheer  

And gratitude  

For those near and dear

 

  

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GEOGRAPHY

 

1. What Pennsylvania city, proclaimed "Big Mac City" has a street named Big Mac Way?  

 

2.  What American city is across the Rio Grande from Juarez? 

 

3.  How many trees are in Africa's Kotezebue Forest?

 

4.  What two seas flank the Caucasus Mountains?

 

5.  What country did James Cook claim for King George III in 1770

 

ANSWERS: 1.) Pittsburgh  2.) El Paso  3.) One  4.) Black Sea & Caspian Seas  5.) Australia  

 
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