Month: April 2008
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Achievement
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.Thomas A Edison
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Department of Highways
A Department of Highways employee stopped at a farm and talked with an old farmer. He told the farmer, “I need to inspect your farm for a possible new road.”The old farmer said, “OK, but don’t go in that field.”The Highways employee said, “I have the authority of the government to go where I want. …
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What meeting? An Outlook rant…
I ran across this today, and can’t believe it.Last week, I set up a meeting in Microsoft Outlook for today and invited four people. Three people accepted, and send responses; and one person declined. I had opened three of them, and I just deleted the last response, because I figured that the fact the last…
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Free will
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.Jawaharlal Nehru
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Science
Science arose from poetry — when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe