"Na, I don't think we need to go to the hospital."
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris." -- Orville Wright.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime." - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
"It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago" - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice-President
"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system!" - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President on the concept of a manned mission to Mars
"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix." - Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President
Smile just one more time again for me. Tell me how wonderful our life will be. Let me know I mean something to you. For upon this morning I am feeling blue.
Smile just one more time again my friend. We said together through thick and thin. Let me know that you still feel the same. That you still like the mention of my name.
Smile just one more time again as we wake. Tell me it wasn't all just one big mistake. Don't tell me it was just all for naught. Not after the times we loved and fought.
Smile just one more time again as we dance. Remind me of the tears and the romance. Let me know you still feel something for me. It wasn't all a game and just our history.
Smile just one more time again before you go. For there is today but what of the morrow. Let me know that when you do return; That for me your heart will still burn.
Oh, God, yes. Are they frightening? But then I am afraid of my own shadow sometimes and have so many fears. It is a good thing I know how to hide from them. Thats all I can say.
How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Alice in wonderland by Louis Carroll Stephens Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Up the down stairs case by Erma Bombeck The man behind the iron mask by John Noone
Prayer to St. Joan of Arc for Faith In the face of your enemies, in the face of harassment, ridicule, and doubt, you held firm in your faith. Even in your abandonment, alone and without friends, you held firm in your faith. Even as you faced your own mortality, you held firm in your faith. I pray that I may be as bold in my beliefs as you, St. Joan. I ask that you ride alongside me in my own battles. Help me be mindful that what is worthwhile can be won when I persist. Help me hold firm in my faith. Help me believe in my ability to act well and wisely. Amen.
My favorite thing about France has to be Joan of Arc. I would love to find woman like her.
Joan of Arc, also known as Jeanne d'Arc, (c.1412 – 30 May 1431) was a national heroine of France and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege at Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence when she overcame the light regard of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days. Several more swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne.
The renewed French confidence outlasted her own brief career. She refused to leave the field when she was wounded during an attempt to recapture Paris that autumn. Hampered by court intrigues, she led only minor companies from then onward and fell prisoner at a skirmish near Compiègne the following spring. A politically motivated trial convicted her of heresy. The English regent John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford had her burnt at the stake in Rouen. She had been the heroine of her country at the age of seventeen and died at just nineteen. Some twenty-four years later Pope Callixtus III reopened the case and a new finding overturned the original conviction. Her piety to the end impressed the retrial court. Pope Benedict XV canonized her on 16 May 1920.
I like shows about the French Resistance. I liked Frenchie in Hogan's Heroes and the show where the shop owner is having these girlfriends he is trying to hide from his wife and the old man who is always trying to be incognito. I wonder if the French Resistance has made a impression on French women playing harder to get.
1 Corinthians 13 1. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10. but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Isn't it amazing how the children can identify with the cartoon characters? I grew up watching cartoons and could not wait under cartoon Saturday which was the all day just dedicated to cartoons.
Seven-year-old Dora Marquez is voiced by Kathleen Herles in the original English version. Dora's name is taken from the Spanish word Exploradora, which means "female explorer." It is also said that her namesake is Dora Barlaz, a science teacher at New York City's Horace Mann School, who was the fiancée of the show's creator when he was designing it. They did not marry.
In every episode, Dora goes on a quest, usually to help someone in trouble or otherwise do a good deed for someone. Her quests often involve gathering key objects and/or surmounting obstacles, and are usually done in three stages. Dora has a knack for almost anything she tries, but is best at soccer, and is unable to ignore a friend in need. She is very close to her family, particularly her Abuela (grandmother), and is never seen without her flower bracelet given to her by her Abuela. She has a teddy bear she got on her first birthday, which she loves very much (like Boots does his stuffed dinosaur); she even went on an adventure just to find it when she lost it.
She can think of a way out of any trouble she or her friends come across.
Her love for exploring seems to run in the family. Her Abuela was an explorer just like Dora when she was her granddaughter's age, and Dora's mother is an archaeologist. Dora has been shown wanting to teach her baby brother and sister to explore when they're older.
Although she mainly uses English and Spanish, Dora is multilingual and has shown that she knows at least four other languages.
One of the main characteristics of the show is viewer interaction; Dora always asks the viewers at home to help her do things or to tell her things she needs to know. (There is no "fourth wall" in this series.)
Boots Boots the Monkey is Dora's best friend on the show. He is voiced by Harrison Chad in the original English version. Boots is friendly and enthusiastic, and usually wears nothing but his beloved red boots, hence his name.
Boots is present with Dora on her adventures, and he helps Dora to solve clues and puzzles. He loves bananas. Boots' father, who is variously considered to be an engineer, an architect, or a contractor, is seen in one episode completing an amusement park and another completing a bridge. Boots loves his father, and in the same episode the two share a banana.
Boots has a plush toy dinosaur, which he can't sleep without (as shown in the episode "Boots' Cuddly Dinosaur").
Beloved hearts don't weep for me; We will meet by the Dogwood tree. With pink petals I will strand a garland; We will walk through a gate to a far land.
Beloved hearts our love has no doubt; It makes me want to sing and shout. Our friendship makes us so real and some day our hearts will heal.
Beloved hearts our love is unending; and hand in hand we are defending something much greater than just we because we tread where flowers are free.
Beloved hearts the grass is soft like down and our love is like feathers all around. Our joy and peace will transcend time reaching our inner being and our mind.
Beloved hearts some day we will be together and it will not matter whatever the weather because beside you walk with me that day with serenity reigning supreme like May.
And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his feet as pillars of fire: 2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, 3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
St. John 20 verse 24 - 29 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them. Except I shall in his hands the print of the nails, and put forth my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. 26 And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. 27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither they finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither they hnd, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. 28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. 29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thous hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Hiway 40 blues, lol. I have never got to watch it at the last job I had but heard the guys at work talking about it. One old guy talked about how bad it was but watched it the whole movie just to let us all know how bad it was. What a trouper. I am sure he had all of our best interests at heart.
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I am sure he had all of our best interests at heart.
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I have spent a lot of time on shortcuts.