Author: Dr Wingnut
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The nun and the cabbie
A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab, and the cab driver won’t stop staring at her.She asks him why he is staring.He replies: “I have a question to ask you, but I don’t want to offend you.”She answers, “My son, you cannot offend me. When you’re as old as I am…
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Self
Self-knowledge and self-improvement are very difficult for most people. It usually needs great courage and long struggle.Abraham Maslow
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Grace
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come. “Tis grace that hath brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home.”John Newton
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Accidents
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.Nathaniel Borenstein
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How will you die?
According to this diagram in the August 2006 issue of National Geographic there is a one in one (100%) chance that you will die. Along with that revelation, it shows in a beautifully rendered diagram — that I think Edward Tufte would approve — your other mortality choice chances.
