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Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. 

-- Melba Colgrove 

  

  

 

 

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.     

-- Abraham Maslow

 

Stillness is where answers to problems are solved

-- Eckhart Tolle  

 
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
-- Samuel Butler

Rabbi Michal once said to his sons: "My life was blessed, because I never needed anything until I had it."
-- Chasidic, 18th Century

   

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.   

-- Joseph Campbell   

   

Being is not serious.  Being is playful, not purposive.

-- Alan Watts 

Did you know ?

Franklin D. Roosevelt  was Ronald Reagan's choice when voting for the first time.

The Dymaxion Car, invented by Buckmeister Fuller in 1934, could carry 11 passengers, exceed 120 mph and get 30  miles per gallon.

  

Peru and Chile occupy most of the western coast of South America. 

 

Antarctica is subject to the world's largest ozone hole. 

 

Big Bertha Golf Clubs

were hocked by rock star Alice Cooper in 1996 TV ads. 

 

A Supernova was seen by the naked eye in 1987, the first time in 383 years. 

 

The London Bridge was classified by U.S. Customs officials as a "large antique" when en route to Lake Havasu, Arizona. 

 

Seiji Ozawa, a Japanese conductor, chose U.S. exile after a Japanese symphony canceled his contract without telling him.

  

Milwaukee had 12 breweries and 225 saloons in 1850, despite being less than 20 years old.

  

Lake Michigan

is the only one of the Great Lakes that does not lap Canadian shores. 

 

Amerigo Vespucci 

in 1502 realized South America was a new continent and not part of Asia.

 

5 MPH was the winning speed of the first U.S. auto race in 1895. 

  

Iron accounts for 35 percent of the Earth's composition. 

 

Nevada
has the highest number of entertainers per capita.

John F. Kennedy had the shortest life of any U.S. president.

A Nuclear Reactor was built on a  squash court under the University of Chicago football stadium in 1942. 
  
 

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