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When we are threatened, our lives are at stake, all the events are leading to one fact, you wouldn't be scared, you would want to understand and either accept, or do something to stop it.

I am spreading all these facts because of the global activities that threaten the whole of humanity. I know so many of you don't share my opinions, my ideas and you are not affected by these terrorism, but I am, the majority of my fellow countrymen are, according to Cruz, Trump, and all the nationwide media. I don't only look at the events of the present situation, I research and truly examine the whole picture.

Here is what I found.

The islam religion is truly a religion of violence, according to the teachings that I will upload. Now with 1.3 billion of them, they don't seem to be presently following these teachings, but the San Bernardino killing is an example that those that we assume and or think of being peaceful and don't follow the strict covenant of their religions, where did it get us? Making us the laughing stock of the world for having failed to prevent it, when in fact all the investigations done prove that that terror took as long as 2 years to prepare.

Of course, I am scared, why wouldn't I. Terror means exactly what it says. Terror. If you are not scared of terror then good for you.

If the move to caliphate the world is their motive and we are not doing anything to stop it? Picture the world's future and be the judge.



Why Muslims are the world’s fastest-growing religious group
BY MICHAEL LIPKA AND CONRAD HACKETT

The expected growth of Islam around the world is perhaps the most striking finding in the recent Pew Research Center report projecting the future of religious groups. Indeed, Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population between 2010 and 2050 and, in the second half of this century, will likely surpass Christians as the world’s largest religious group.

Islam Growing FastestWhile the world’s population is projected to grow 35% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to increase by 73% – from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.8 billion in 2050. In 2010, Muslims made up 23.2% of the global population. Four decades later, they are expected to make up about three-in-ten of the world’s people (29.7%).

By 2050, Muslims will be nearly as numerous as Christians, who are projected to remain the world’s largest religious group at 31.4% of the global population.

The main reasons for Islam’s growth ultimately involve simple demographics. To begin with, Muslims have more children than members of the seven other major religious groups analyzed in the study. Each Muslim woman has an average of 3.1 children, significantly above the next-highest group (Christians at 2.7) and the average of all non-Muslims (2.3). In all major regions where there is a sizable Muslim population, Muslim fertility exceeds non-Muslim fertility.

From Wiki.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Hebrews 12:1 KJV

Reunion with Loved Ones

"Very often people come to me and say: "Mr. Moody, do you think we shall know each other in Heaven?" Very often it is a mother who has lost a dear child, and who wishes to see it again. Sometimes it is a child who has lost a mother, a father; and who wants to recognize them in Heaven. There is a verse in Scripture in answer to this, and that is: "We shall be satisfied" (Psalm 17:15). It is all I want to know. My brother who went up there the other day I shall see, because I shall be satisfied. We will see all those we loved on Earth up there, and if we loved them here, we will love them ten thousand times more when we meet them there.--Dwight L. Moody

"One of the best things about Heaven is that we will be able to reunite with loved ones who have already passed on. It will be the greatest family reunion we've ever known, with our loved ones, relatives and ancestors all together in one place at the same time, rejoicing. All together at last!--David Berg

"After death we are not disembodied spirits. Somewhere in God's wonderful creation there is a place where we can again be with those we have loved and lost for a while.--C.L. Allen

"All love is of God," the Apostle John reminds us, and because love cannot be buried in a coffin, the beautiful but broken relationships of Earth are resumed in the Father's home above where, as members of the same family, we dwell together in perfect harmony.--H. Lockyer

Excerpt of a letter from Ben Franklin to the widow of his brother John, Feb. 22, 1756:

Dear Child,
I condole with you. We have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life: 'tis rather an embryo state, a preparation for living.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals? A new member added to their happy society?

That bodies should be lent to us is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure -- instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given -- it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them.
Death is that way. Why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.

"If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The voice you loved to hear, you will hear again. The identity of the one you were near to on Earth remains the same, and instant recognition will be yours as you meet, never to part again. Your beloved one is only "lost awhile."--H. Lockyer

"I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.--Edna St. Vincent Millay

"What Heaven is, I know not; but I long have dreamed of its purple hills and its fields of light, blossoming with immortal beauty; of its brooks of laughter and its rivers of song and its palace of eternal love. I long have dreamed of opal towers and burnished domes; but what care I for gate of pearl or street of gold, if I can meet the loved ones who have blessed me here, and see the glorified faces of father and mother and the boy brother who died. What care I for crown of stars and harp of gold if I can love and laugh and sing with them forever in the smile of my Savior and my God.--Bob Taylor





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"One Nation Under God." - ["The Forgotten Man."]

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Matthew 28:18-19 KJB

"For He hath prepared for them a City!" Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to have any passport nor visa problems, they're not going to have to make sure you've got enough money to stay there awhile, it's YOUR town, your Hometown in Heaven, praise God? And they're all going to be your people! We're just going to be one nationality of one nation, ...we just haven't found the place yet, we haven't gotten there yet! -David Berg

"The best religion is the religion that brings you closest to God." - the Being of Light told someone during his near death experience.

"The Church people prepare for Heaven as though they were never going There, and they build churches for this Earth as though they were going to live here forever! Most Christians live their lives on this Earth building homes and churches and jobs and families like they expected to live here forever, and seem to make very little preparation for Heaven. They don't build the Body of God, the True Church of God, the Living Stones, by witnessing and winning souls and going to the mission field. They're preparing almost nothing for Heaven, making almost no preparations for the future, laying hardly anything in store up There. -David Berg

"Each soul enters with a mission. We all have a mission to perform." - Edgar Cayce

"Although my near death experience was nearly thirty four years ago, there is virtually not a day that goes by that I am not aware of making decisions based on that experience." - Geraldine Berkheimer

"Death ... is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see." - Helen Keller

"Life is continuous, and is Infinite." - Edgar Cayce

"Death is not the end, it is simply walking out of the physical form and into the spirit realm, which is our true home. It's going back home." -Stephen Christopher

"There are many rooms in the Father's House just as there are many grades in school. The period of time we spend on earth is but one grade of life. It is but a beginning." - Robert A. Russell

"For the earth is only an atom in the universe of worlds." - Edgar Cayce

"The heavens call to you and circle around you displaying to you their eternal splendors." - Dante

"O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance." - Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

"The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends." - William Penn

"The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds." - Edgar Cayce

"Death is only passing through God's other door." - Edgar Cayce

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." - T.S. Eliot

"You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life." - Edgar Cayce

"I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done." - George Elliot

"The boundaries between life and death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends and where the other begins?" -Edgar Allen Poe

"Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?" - Emily Dickinson

"Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world." - Henry Miller




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“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” Mother Teresa

Love is action

I took my daughter, Helen (eight years old), and son, Brandon (five years old), to the Cloverleaf Mall in Hattiesburg to do a little shopping. As we drove up, we spotted a Peterbilt eighteen-wheeler parked with a big sign on it that said “Petting Zoo.” The kids jumped up in a rush and asked, “Daddy, Daddy. Can we go? Please. Please. Can we go?”

“Sure,” I said, flipping them both a quarter before walking into Sears. They bolted away and I felt free to take my time looking for a scroll saw. A petting zoo consists of a portable fence erected in the mall with about six inches of sawdust and a hundred little furry baby animals of all kinds. Kids pay their money and stay in the enclosure enraptured with the squirmy little critters while their moms and dads shop.

A few minutes later, I turned around and saw Helen walking along behind me. I was shocked to see she preferred the hardware department to the petting zoo. Plus, I thought the children had to wait till the parents came to pick them up. I bent down and asked what was wrong.

She looked up at me with those giant limpid brown eyes and said sadly, “Well, Daddy, it cost fifty cents. So, I gave Brandon my quarter.” Then she said the most beautiful thing I ever heard. She repeated the family motto: “Love is action!”

She had given Brandon her quarter, and no one loves cuddly furry creatures more than Helen. She had watched both me and my wife do and say “Love is action!” for years around the house. She had heard and seen “Love is action,” and now she had incorporated it into her little lifestyle. It had become part of her.

What do you think I did? Well, not what you might think. First, we went back to the petting zoo, since Brandon was by himself. We stood by the fence and watched Brandon go crazy petting and feeding the animals. Helen stood with her hands and chin resting on the fence and just watched Brandon. I had fifty cents burning a hole in my pocket; I never offered it to Helen, and she never asked for it.

Because she knew the whole family motto. It’s not “Love is action.” It’s “Love is SACRIFICIAL action!” Love always pays a price. Love always costs something. Love is expensive. When you love, benefits accrue to another’s account. Love is for you, not for me. Love gives; it doesn’t grab. Helen gave her quarter to Brandon and wanted to follow through with her lesson. … She wanted to experience that total family motto. Love is sacrificial action.—Dave Simmons, “Dad, The Family Coach”
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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” Charles Dickens

“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” Winston S. Churchill

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.” Gretchen Rubin

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” Steve Maraboli




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A compilation Feb 17, 2015

“I need oil,” said an ancient monk; so he planted an olive sapling.

“Lord,” he prayed, “it needs rain that its tender roots may drink and swell. Send gentle showers.” And the Lord sent gentle showers.

“Lord,” prayed the monk, “my tree needs sun. Send sun, I pray Thee.” And the sun shone, gilding the dripping clouds.

“Now frost, my Lord, to brace its tissues,” cried the monk. And behold, the little tree stood sparkling with frost, but at evening it died.

Then the monk sought the cell of a brother monk, and told his strange experience.

“I, too, planted a little tree,” he said, “and see, it thrives well. But I entrust my tree to its God. He who made it knows better what it needs than a man like me. I laid no condition. I fixed no ways or means. ‘Lord, send what it needs,’ I prayed. ‘Storm or sunshine, wind, rain, or frost—Thou hast made it and Thou dost know.’”—Attributed to Linda Dillow

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The other evening I was riding home after a heavy day’s work. I felt very weary and depressed, when swiftly and suddenly that text came to me, “My grace is sufficient for thee.”1

I said, “I should think it is, Lord,” and burst out laughing. It seemed to make unbelief so absurd.

It was as though some little fish, being very thirsty, was troubled about drinking the river dry, and Father Thames said, “Drink away, little fish. My stream is sufficient for thee.”

Again, I imagined a man away up yonder, in a lofty mountain, saying to himself, “I breathe so many cubic feet of air every year, I fear I shall exhaust the oxygen in the atmosphere.” But the earth might say, “Breathe away, O man, and fill thy lungs. My atmosphere is sufficient for thee.”

Be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to Heaven, but great faith will bring Heaven to your souls.—C. H. Spurgeon

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“Do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ … For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”—Matthew 6:31–332

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I cannot but God can
Oh, balm for all my care,
The burden that I drop
His hand will lift and bear.
Though eagle’s pinions tire,
I walk where once I ran,
This is my strength: to know
I cannot, but God can.

I know not, but God knows.
Oh, blessed rest from fear,
All my unfolding days
To Him are plain and clear.
Each anxious puzzled “Why?”
From doubt or dread that grows,
Finds answer in this thought:
I know not, but God knows!
—Annie Johnson Flint

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All we have to do is follow Jesus! … Even though we are faithless, yet He remains faithful. He cannot deny Himself, and He cannot break His word. He is going to see it through. God is going to carry us through. He has begun a good work in us, and He’s going to complete it to the end.

God alone can do it and God alone can show us what to do, how to do it, and protect us in doing it, supply the needs, and lead and guide us every step of the way. So don’t try to figure it out for yourself. … Cry out to God and ask God for the solution, and God will never fail.

Only God knows what to do, and only God knows what He wants done, and only God can do it. … God knows what He’s doing. So for God’s sake let Him do it, and just look to Him to find out what He’s doing, and what He wants you to do, and which way He’s going!

Don’t try to reason around with your own understanding, but get down in prayer and cry out to God with strong crying and tears and desperation, and look to Him alone for the answers. God alone has the answers and God alone can do it.—David Berg

1 2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV.
2 NKJV.




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Is Charged With Séxual Assault.
Cardinal George Pell is of course claiming to be innocent of all wrong doing.
Its all a conspiracy I tell ya !

Lets see how the "new revolutionary pope" handles this one.

My bet is;
Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss !

By Virginia Brandt Berg DECEMBER 26, 2013

Some people cannot understand how God could have come down and been wrapped about with human flesh, but He came. It isn’t strange to me. That seems so easy to believe, because I see Him born in hearts every day. He comes and lives in hearts and transforms lives, and to me that’s a great miracle, a mighty miracle, that He can be born in your heart and in my heart, and live there in our hearts, identifying Himself in that way with us.

There was a young German soldier posted at his sentry box before the barracks on a dark night, and suddenly he heard the sound of hoof beats. It was his captain’s horse. He went quickly out and offered his salute and then stood like a marble statue until the captain cried out: “Say, of what use to me are your tokens of respect in this pitch black, dark night! Open the gates so that I can ride in!”

Though a thousand times in Bethlehem Christ be born,
If He’s not born in thee, thy soul is all forlorn.1

A well-known poem brings this point home, saying,

I shall attend to my little errands of love
Early, this year,
That the brief days before Christmas may be
Unhampered and clear
Of the fever of hurry. The breathless rushing that I have known in the past
Shall not possess me. I shall be calm in my soul
And ready at last
For Christmas. To worship the Christ. I shall kneel, take time to call His name;
I shall take time to watch the beautiful light
Of a candle’s flame.
I shall have leisure—I shall go out alone
From my roof and my door;
I shall not miss the silver silence of stars
As I have before.
Perhaps if I stand there very still
And very long, I shall hear what the clamor of living has kept from me:
The angels’ song,
That mother’s low cry, and the baby’s sweet song.2

God’s word says His name shall be called “wonderful.” There in Isaiah, in the ninth chapter, “Wonderful!” “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; the government shall be upon his shoulder. His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.”3 His name is Wonderful because He was wonderful in His life, going about everywhere doing good and healing all that were oppressed!4 Wonderful His death—dying for you and me, that we might have life! Wonderful His resurrection, that we might also be resurrected! And wonderful now in His life after death, because He is interceding for us.

Oh, my friend,
’Tis not enough that Christ was born
Beneath the star that shone,
And earth was set that blessed morn
Within a golden zone.
He must be born within the heart
Before He finds His throne.5

Won’t you let Him come into your heart?

There is a story of the artist Holman Hunt, who painted that famous picture of Jesus standing at the door, that tells how someone came to him and told him that he’d made a mistake in the picture that he had painted, that he had no knob on the door, that the Savior was standing before a closed door with a lantern in the hand. And then it was that Holman Hunt answered, “I didn’t make any mistake. The door is opened by the sinner’s own hand from the inside. The handle is inside. The Savior can never enter a door unless it is opened from the inside.”

God’s Word says, “To as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.”6 Receive Him this Christmas. He’ll mean so much to you. He’ll transform your life. Welcome Him into your heart. He’s still on the throne and He wants to be on the throne of your heart, and prayer will change things for you.


1 Angelus Silesius, a 17th-century poet.
2 Adapted from a poem by Grace Noll Crowell.
3 Isaiah 9:6.
4 Acts 10:38.
5 Author unknown.
6 John 1:12.


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On Sunday, Christians all over the world will celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ who died on the cross for the remission (forgiveness) of our sins, He was buried, and was raised from the dead by the power of God.
Easter translated means Passover. Easter (Passover) is celebrated on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox, the date of Easter is between March 22 and April 23.

This Sunday School lesson is for your spiritual edification.

A Commentary On The International Sunday School Lesson for Sunday April 5, 2015

“Guaranteed Resurrection”

Scripture Text: I Corinthians 15:Verses 1-11; 20-22
Time of the Action: 55 A.D.
Place of the Action: Paul writes to the church at Corinth from Ephesus

Golden Text: “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive” (I Corinthians 15:22).

I. INTRODUCTION. In this week’s lesson, Paul explained the meaning of Christ’s resurrection to the Corinthian believers. He stressed that the glorious future resurrection of Christians is guaranteed by Christ’s resurrection. This Easter morning, as we study this lesson we have the opportunity to glory in the understanding and blessings of Christ’s resurrection.

II. BACKGROUND FOR THE LESSON.As Greeks, the people of Corinth were most likely influenced by Greek philosophers, who scoffed, or made fun of the very idea of a resurrection (see Acts 17:32). While it is unlikely that the Corinthian believers doubted the resurrection of Christ, it was apparent from I Corinthians 15:12 that they had doubts concerning the future resurrection of Christians. This prompted Paul to write fully about the resurrection in I Corinthians chapter 15.

III. THE GOSPEL AND CHRIST’S RESURRECTION (I Corinthians 15:1-4)

A. The gospel and salvation (I Corinthians 15:1-2).
1. (Verse. 1). In our first verse Paul says “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand.” The word “Moreover” indicates a change from what Paul wrote in chapter 14 to what he was about to write now. Of course he called the Corinthian believers “brethren” because they were all members of the same family, the church of God (see I Corinthians 1:2). He went on to say “I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you.” Paul was about to remind the Corinthian believers of the gospel that he had preached to them on his second missionary journey (see Acts 18:1, 4). The word “gospel” means good news. Paul told them that the gospel he preached “ye have received, and wherein ye stand.” In other words, by faith they had accepted the message of the gospel, which included the resurrection. However, false teaching had entered in saying that there was no resurrection for Christians who had died, even though they accepted Christ’s resurrection (see I Corinthians 15:12). With the words “wherein ye stand,” Paul affirmed their faith as they stood firmly in that same gospel he preached.

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That would mean that there is something alive and conscious around us at all times that is undetectable by us.

What if the Bible is in fact true?

Prayers are heard and pondered by this invisible life force and then determined if they shall be answered or not.

Our every move and thoughts being recorded and will be used for our judgement.

"God" as he/she/it is called knows all, including our future.

Can billions of people over thousands of years be that gullible into believing something that is in fact not real? ...seems hardly possible.

Has modern society forgotten about this being/force and will we be reminded?



Actually, I do not know for a fact...but there are times that it seems like in fact prayers are answered....etc...

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes - Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. 1 Corinthians 11:26 & Matthew 28:20 KJV

No Disappointment In Heaven

"Heaven is a permanent residence, a place where we unpack our bags and stay forever. What a glorious thought to wake up in Heaven and realize it is home!--C.L. Allen

Life After Life!

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.--Rabindranath Tagore

"Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.--David Berg

Let us believe that when death comes, and it will come sooner or later to every human being, we can be assured it will come as a friend who lovingly leads us to our eternal home, Heaven.--C.L. Allen

"Death is but a passage out of a prison into a palace.--Anonymous

"Living is death; dying is life. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans, on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, freemen; on this side, disguised, unknown; on that, disclosed and proclaimed as the sons of God. --Henry Ward Beecher

"What we call life is a journey to death. What we call death is the gateway to life.--Anonymous

"I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.--Lyman Abbott

"To die is to go and live in another home.--C.L. Allen

"I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, "She is gone." Gone where? The loss of sight is in me, not in her. Just at the moment when someone says, "She is gone," there are others who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" That is dying. --Henry Scott Holland

"This world is to be likened to the porch; the world to come unto the palace." --The Talmud

"When Robert Browning's father lay dying -- he was past eighty at the time -- his cheerfulness alarmed the attending physician. "Does the old gentleman know he is dying?" the doctor inquired of his daughter in a low voice. The father overheard him and smiled, "Death is no enemy in my eyes."

"Peace, peace! He is not dead, he does not sleep --He hath wakened from the dream of life. --Percy Bysshe Shelley, writing about the death of his friend John Keats

"The Apostle Paul wrote, "The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18). The physical dies away, but the spiritual is forever."--David Berg

"[In the day of death:] Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.--King Solomon Ecclesiastes 12:7

"Your body is not the real you. It's just the physical house you live in. The real you is your spirit, which will live on forever.--David Berg

"From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.--H.W. Longfellow

"God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for He shall receive me. (Psalm 49:15)--King David

"When I die, do not sound taps over my grave, but reveille -- the morning call, the summons to rise."-- A soldier

"The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here. ... Yet the Work itself shall not be lost; for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the Author.-- Epitaph of Benjamin Franklin






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