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| Education
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
| Philosophy |
| Door to Door Salesmen
Two salesmen were going door to door. They knocked on the door of a woman who was not happy to see them. She told them in no uncertain terms that she did not want to hear their offer and slammed the door in their faces. To her surprise, however, the door did ...
| Humor |
| Possessions
Hebrews 10:34
For you showed sympathy to the prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.
| Bible |
| March 18th, 1958
The Los Angeles Dodgers announce that mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform that season. Kelly, a longtime performer with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, was no mere clown act. He had performed on Broadway and in movies and had taken off ...
| Sports Facts |
| Free Men
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live ...
| Philosophy |
| Salvation
Acts 4:12
There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
| Bible |
| March 17th, 1994
On this day in 1994, in a victory for public spaces everywhere, it is announced there will be no smoking in the Cleveland Indians new ballpark.
| Sports Facts |
| The Great Escape
Two prisoners, an American and a Mexican, were making their escape over the jailhouse roof when one of them dislodged a tile.
“Who’s there!" shouted a guard.
The American prisoner replied with a convincing imitation of a cat’s meow. Reassured, the ...
| Humor |
| Spring Fever
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
-- Mark Twain
| Philosophy |
| His Handiwork
Psalm 19:1-14
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through ...
| Bible |
| March 16th, 1964
On this day in 1964, Paul Hornung and Alex Karras were reinstated in NFL after serving a 1 year suspension for placing bets on NFL games.
| Sports Facts |
| Drunk Beemer
After gunning his BMW the wrong way down a one-way street, a rather intoxicated young man was stopped and asked where he thought he was going by a curious police officer.
“I’m not really sure,” confessed the drunk, “but wherever it is, I must be late, because ...
| Humor |
| False Friends
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
| Philosophy |
| The Spirit
John 3:8
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
| Bible |
| March 15th, 1997
On this day in 1997, the Pittsburgh Penguins' Joe Mullen becomes the first American to score 500 NHL goals.
| Sports Facts |
| Clown Funeral
Did you hear about the circus clown's funeral? All his friends came in one car.
| Humor |
| Welcome Prosperity
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-- Anne Bradstreet
| Philosophy |
| Father of Lies
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for ...
| Bible |
| March 14th, 1969
On this day in 1969, Barbara Jo Rubin becomes the first woman jockey to win at the Aqueduct race track in Queens, New York.
| Sports Facts |
| Circus Joke 1
Q: What is the gooey red stuff between an elephant's toes?
A: Slow clowns.
| Humor |
| Eternal Spring
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss
| Philosophy |
| Laying It All Down
John 10:18
No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.
| Bible |
| March 13th, 1878
On this day in 1878, Oxford University defeated Cambridge University in their first-even golf match.
| Sports Facts |
| Roadside Performance
A circus performer was pulled over by a police officer for speeding. As the officer was writing the ticket, she noticed several machetes in the car. "What are those for?" she asked suspiciously.
"I'm a juggler," the man replied. "I use those in my act." ...
| Humor |
| Be Patient
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
-- Robert H. Schuller
| Philosophy |