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| A Lifetime Saved
"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
Marcus Aurelias
| Philosophy |
| Honor Bound
When a Sports Illustrated reporter asked USA goalkeeper, Briana Scurry, what she would do if the US won gold in the 1996 Olympics, she replied that she would run naked through the streets of Athens, Georgia, where the final was played. Well, the US won, and ...
| Sports Facts |
| Too much of a good thing
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” Mark Twain
| Philosophy |
| Beautiful Stone
A sales clerk in a retail shop arrived one morning wearing a good sized diamond ring. One of the clerks noticed the sparkler and asked about it.
“My mother-in-law gave me a thousand dollars before she passed away. She said that when she dies, I should buy ...
| Humor |
| No Stone Thrown
John 8:7-11
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
At this, those who heard began to go away ...
| Bible |
| Sands of Time
Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.
Hugo Black
| Philosophy |
| Sideline Sassiness
I was sprawled on the living-room couch watching my favorite show on the Food Network when my husband walked in.
"Why do you watch those food shows?" he asked. "You don’t even cook."
Glaring back at him, I asked, "Then why do you watch football?"
| Humor |
| World Series Triple Threat
Don Baylor was a world-class manager and a very good player for a number of teams. Baylor made the World Series three times in his career, and they just happened to be consecutively, in 1986 (Red Sox), 1987 (Twins), and 1988 (Athletics). Only the Twins won ...
| Sports Facts |
| God Does Not Discriminate
Galations 2:6-7
6 As for those who were held in high esteem - whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism - they added nothing to my message.
7 On the contrary, they recognized that I had been entrusted with the task of ...
| Bible |
| Little Liars
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
Hal Holbrook
| Philosophy |
| Defensive Driving
I'm not good at sports, but I like parallel parking. Unlike sports, the worse you are at parallel parking, the more people you have rooting for you.
| Humor |
| UFC 1
The UFC is everywhere these days, but it has been only 20 years since UFC 1 brought mixed martial arts into the public eye. In that first event, Brazilian Royce Gracie defeated a much larger and stronger Ken Shamrock, a professional wrestler of some note in ...
| Sports Facts |
| Loving Discipline
Proverbs 12:1-2
1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.
2 Good people obtain favor from the Lord, but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes.
| Bible |
| Jersey Theft
Football players at the high school where I worked were stealing the practice jerseys, so the coach ordered a set with “Property of Central High School” emblazoned on them. When the thefts continued, he ordered a new batch that had the imprint “Stolen from ...
| Humor |
| You don't have to prove it!
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell
| Philosophy |
| August 8th, 1988
The Chicago Cubs are famous for playing a lot of day games, but before this day in 1988, day games were the only ones played at Wrigley Field. Night games had been around for more than 60 years when the Cubs met the Philadelphia Phillies in the first night ...
| Sports Facts |
| Sarai Taken by the Pharaoh
Genesis 12:14-16
14 When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.
15 When Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.
16 Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake ...
| Bible |
| Changing Teams!
When former New York Giants and Green Bay Packers tackle Cal Hubbard was done playing football, he turned to baseball.
Not as a player, but as an official!
| Sports Facts |
| The Language of Politics
Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
| Philosophy |
| Sgt. Hottie
Recruits got a shock when their Air Force basic-training instructor turned out to be an attractive female sergeant. Her assistant, however, was a burly, hawk-nosed veteran whose glare could freeze water. At the end of training, the attractive instructor congratulated ...
| Humor |
| My Salvation
Psalms 118:20-22
I will give You thanks, for You answered me; You have become my salvation.
| Bible |
| Pasture Puck
The first puck ever used in a hockey game was a frozen cow pattie.
| Sports Facts |
| Turn Signal Warning
On a recent flight, an elderly passenger kept peering out the window.
Since it was totally dark, all she could see was the blinking wing-tip
light. Finally, she rang for the flight attendant.
"I'm sorry to bother you," she said, "but I think you should ...
| Humor |
| Christ Is Alive
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
| Bible |
| Generosity of a Liberal
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
G. Gordon Liddy
| Philosophy |