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There are obviously two educations.
One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
* James Truslow Adams

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In a more complete version of that quote, Adams says: “There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living…In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trace or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another–namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.”

And John Steinbeck claimed that, “Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”

Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.

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Originally posted 2009-08-06 19:51:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

1847 USA: The Arkansas Intellegencer newspaper reported that Choctaw Indians, on learning of the Irish Potato Famine, sent $710 to a famine relief fund in Ireland.

On May 23, 1995, Mary Robinson, the then President of Ireland, visited the Choctaw Nation to convey her nation’s thanks for this act of generosity from the Choctaws. President Robinson, who had been made a Chief of the Choctaw Nation, spoke to the Choctaw people in their native language, “Chahta I yakne ala li kut na sa yukpa.” Then she translated, “I am glad to have come to Choctaw Country.”

President Robinson added: “I believe that we have in common that bond of humanity and it should be an additional reason why we should particularly reach out now to countries who suffer from poverty and hunger. I think it is very important that we should try to give leadership in that and that we try to encourage others to understand that there are people today who need the support that the Choctaw Nation gave 150 years ago to the Irish people.”

Celtic dancers danced with Choctaw dancers during the ceremony.

The Choctaw tribe had had its own tragedy not long before its generous gift to the starving Irish: Indian removal. Read more at: Trail of Tears in the Book of Days (1838)
Pictured above: Choctaw Eagle Dance, by George Catlin, circa 1845 – 1848

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Originally posted 2008-04-02 17:03:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Hat dip to our Northeastern friend, turtle_dove, for this delightful lil diddy of dayz gone by.

Originally posted 2006-12-15 12:35:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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However, it is all over with but the shoutin’ as we’ll soon see. The mitigated results will unfold quickly unlike any other ever witnessed before; moreover, add a few final touches here and there and voila! It’s dead in the water.

Defamation is no joke!

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
*Dr. Albert Ellis

Google, search engine of choice for pretty much everyone, has announced that it will begin a separate index for blogs and remove them from the normal index, handling them instead in much the same way as their usenet archives. This will hopefully put an end to the recent difficulties locating primary source material among the mountains of blogs which are clogging the ratings system.”

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Originally posted 2006-09-26 07:30:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Originally posted 2008-12-29 11:53:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
*Terry Pratchett

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

Thanks, Pip!

Update: I still wonder if anything has changed since the time it was initially posted over 3 yrs ago? [Nahhh, 'nuff said.]

Originally posted 2006-06-14 23:28:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Men and women who abuse their partners and families are often difficult to diagnose. Dr. Liane Leedom presents four questions and the answers to help you identify when you are, in fact, involved with an abuser.

Also, keep in mind that, you can take a man to the train station but you can’t make him board the train.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
*Thomas Mann

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