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4/29/2025

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Minds And Thinking

4/23/2025

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Picture of a multicolored background, and the words, Humor And Inspiration And Learning About Minds And Thinking Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont - Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.

“Poirot,” I said. “I have been thinking.”
“An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
-Agatha Christie (Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1890 - 1976)): “Peril at End House” (February 1932)

“Guard your thoughts carefully. The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

A Beautiful Thought

It just can’t be given or bought
And must be most tenderly sought.
     With a velvety pelt,
     So soft it may melt -
It’s known as a beautiful thought.

By Author Unknown
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“It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.” -Colin Wilson: “Frankenstein’s Castle” (1980), page 16

Boris: What gets sharper the more you use it?
Doris: Your mind.
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“Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether.” -Rhonda Byrne (born 1951)

“Minds are for people who think.” -Mark Jones (born 1953): “The A-Team,” Season 3, Episode 1 (18 September 1984); words on a T-shirt worn by fictional character Madman Murdoch

“Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences.” -Author Unknown

“Don’t feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them.” -Catherine Pulsifer (born 1927) at https://www.QuotesChristian.com and https://www.StressLessCountry.com/quotes/

“We find it hard to believe that other people’s thoughts are as silly as our own.” -James Harvey Robinson

Thoughts are funny little things,
     They can make paupers or make kings.
-Sidney Madwed
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“Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.” -Tony Robbins (Anthony Jay ‘Tony’ Robbins (born 1960 as Anthony J. Mahavoric))

“Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers and prophets, have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)

“When we say our mind wanders, where does it go?” -Author Unknown

“Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.” -Mae West (1893 - 1980)
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“Whatever you think about grows in your life.” -Author Unknown

“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.” -Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797): in a letter (10 July 1779) to Caroline, Countess of Ailesbury

“Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“What you allow to occupy your mind will sooner or later determine your feelings, your speech, and your actions. Thoughts . . . have a real impact on how you feel and behave.” -Daniel Amen and Lisa Routh: “Healing Anxiety and Depression” (2003), page 184
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“Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Author Unknown

“There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.” -Robert Henri

“You live with your thoughts - so be careful what they are.” -Eva Arrington

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
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“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.” -René Descartes (1596 - 1650)

“Every thought we think is creating our future.” -Louise L. Hay (Louise Lynn Hay (1926 - 2017))

“There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.” -Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)

“Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.” -Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909 - 1966): “Unkempt Thoughts” (1957)

“A thought is a substance, producing the thing that is imagined by the thought.” -Wallace D. Wattles (Wallace Delois Wattles (born Wallace Delois Walters (1860 - 1911)))

“Change your thoughts, change your life.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“It is your ability to think that is your chief source of value; in fact, you are a mind with a body to carry it around in.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is not purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.” -Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)

“Don’t try to think too many thoughts all at once. Even the smartest among us can only think one or two things at a time.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Thought is action in rehearsal.” -Author Unknown

“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.” -Thomas Szasz (Thomas S. Szasz (1920 - 2012))

“How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?” -E. M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster (1879 - 1970)): “Aspects of the Novel” (1927)

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” -Ernest Holmes (Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (1887 - 1960))

“Let one therefore keep the mind pure, for what a man thinks, that he becomes.” -Author Unknown: “The Upanishads”

“No mind is much employed on the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

“The finest thought runs the risk of being irrevocably forgotten if we do not write it down.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860): “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer” (as translated by T. Bailey Saunders (1851)), ‘The Art of Literature: On Thinking for One’s Self’

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Are you thinking what we’re thinking?
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“When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.” -Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974): as quoted in “Speakers Encyclopedia” (1955)

“Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824), as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)

“We seem to do most of our thinking in our minds.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))

“Think only about what you want . . . never dwell on what you don’t want.” -Shane K. Hughes
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“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881): “Coningsby” (1844), book 3, chapter I

“We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend on what we think.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)

“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)

“Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.” -Author Unknown
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“The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.” -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))

“A penny for your thoughts.” -Author Unknown
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“Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts.” -Frank Crane (1861 - 1928)

“We become what we think about.” -Napoleon Hill -Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon ‘Napoleon’ Hill (1883 - 1970))

“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Principles of Psychology” (1890), Volume 1, Chapter 22

“We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” -Author Unknown
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“The biggest lesson I have ever learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))

“If you change your way of thinking, you change your life.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944)

“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180))

“I realize that I will be, when my life’s labor is complete, the product of my thoughts.” -George Albert Smith
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“A man is literally what he thinks.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912): “As A Man Thinketh” (1902)

“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” -Bill Meyer
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“Few minds wear out; more rust out.” -Christian Nestell Bovée (1820 - 1904): “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought” (1862), volume 1

“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.” -Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

“Life is but thought.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” -Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

“An open mind is all very well in its way but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.” -Samuel Butler (also known as Samuel Butler the Younger (1835 - 1902)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)

“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.” -Natalie Clifford Barney (1876 - 1972)

“What you think about you bring about.” -Author Unknown
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“Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.” -T. Harv Eker (born 1954) at https://www.harveker.com/

“Happy thoughts are half of your health.” -Author Unknown
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“You are free to think thoughts of worry or joy, and whatever you choose will attract the same kind back to you. Worry attracts worry. Joy attracts joy.” -Rhonda Byrne

It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
-Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.” -Ira Gassen
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“As cloud on clouds, snow on snow, as the bird on air, as the planet rests on space in its flight, so do nations of men and their institutions rest on thoughts.” -Author Unknown

“We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))

“You can think your way to failure and unhappiness, but you can also think your way to success and happiness.” -Author Unknown

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180)): “The Meditations” (C.E. 167), Book 4, meditation 3

“Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.” -Author Unknown
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“Thoughts have power. Thoughts are energy. You can make your world or break it by your thinking.” -Susan Taylor

“Ultimate human power is not in our possessions, but in our minds.” -Author Unknown

Overheard: Sometimes you have to think outside your mind.

“Man is made or unmade by himself . . . In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912): “As a Man Thinketh” (1903)

“You become what you think about all day long.” -Author Unknown

“Thought creates character.” -Annie Bessant (1847 - 1933)

“Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.” -Author Unknown
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“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” -Louise L. Hay (Louise Lynn Hay (1926 - 2017))

“What you think about comes about.” -Author Unknown

“What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than you earn, more than where you live, more than you social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.” -George Adams (George Matthew Adams (1878 - 1962))

“A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824): as quoted in Paul Auster, translator: “The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert” (1883)

“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.” -Charles R. Swindoll (Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll (born 1934))

“You are what you think.” -Author Unknown
[Minds And Thinking] + [Axioms]

“Thoughts rule the world.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Letters and Social Aims” (1876), “Progress and Culture” (18 July 1876)

“Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“If you can think it, you can do it.” -Author Unknown
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“You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.” -Danielle Pierre
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Money

4/20/2025

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Picture of one-hundred dollar bills falling from the sky, and the words, Humor And Inspiration And Learning About Money Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont - Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.

“If you have money, you are wise and good-looking and you can sing well, too.” -Author Unknown: Yiddish proverb

“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy. But it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” -George Lorimer (George Horace Lorimer (1867 - 1937))
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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.” -Jane Austen (1775 - 1817): “Mansfield Park” (1814)

Throughout history, people have used cocoa beans, elephants, grain, animal hides, fishhooks, and tea as money. Before standardized money was invented, people bartered. We have 4 nanny goats and 2 jars of pickles - would anyone like to trade us 6 hens, a rooster, and a wheelbarrow for them? (Just kidding - we need to keep our goats because they recycle our garbage, and we ate all the pickles!)

“Money is only necessary in situations in which you cannot get by on your charming personality and looks alone.” -Author Unknown
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The oldest known standardized money is the small pieces of obsidian (a type of volcanic rock) once used by people in ancient Lydia (now Turkey) as far back as 12,000 B.C.E. The first coins to have their value printed on them were minted sometime around 600 B.C.E., also in Lydia. The coins were made of electrum, which is an alloy (a mixture of metals) consisting of gold and silver.

“Money really isn’t everything. If it was, what would we buy with it?” -Tom Wilson (Thomas Albert Wilson, Senior (1931 - 2011))
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A group of Pacific islanders called the Yaps once used donut-shaped stones as money. Some stones were as large as 3.66 meters (12 feet) across. We are going to need a bigger canoe.

“A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

The United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky holds 4,578 metric tons of gold. The New York Federal Reserve is even bigger, at 7,000 metric tons. Combined, they hold a staggering 7.5 percent of all the gold ever refined by humans on Earth.

Money

Is it me or the nature of money
That’s odd and peculiar? Funny,
     But when I have dough
     It goes quickly, you know,
And seeps out of my pockets like honey.

By Author Unknown
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The bird pictured on the American silver dollar was a real eagle named Peter. He was adopted by people who worked at the United States Mint, and used from 1830 to 1836 as a model for their drawings. When he passed on after getting his wing injured in the coining press, they stuffed him, and he is still on display in the lobby of the mint.

He that has money is bothered about it;
     And he that has none is bothered without it.
-Author Unknown

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Origami, the art and craft of paper folding, is one way to have fun with your money . . . can you think of others?

“Some people seem to think they are worth a lot of money simply because they happen to have a lot of money.” -Author Unknown

Worn-out coins are melted down and used to make new coins, and worn-out bills are shredded. In the past, worn out bills were burned into ashes. Now, some shredded bills are recycled into roof shingles and fireplace logs. A farm in Delaware mulches more than four tons of cash into compost every day.

“Money, therefore, if it is to be anything, must be at least an efficient and trustworthy instrument by which working people accumulate savings.” -Lewis E. Lehrnman

Why is American money green? Ink colors have unique physical characteristics because they contain different ingredients. Green ink was chosen for American dollars because its ingredients make it more resistant to fading, flaking, and discoloration than other colors of ink.

“Money doesn’t always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.” -Author Unknown
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‘ATM’ is an abbreviation for ‘Automatic Teller Machine’ also known as a ‘cash machine.’ The next time you hear someone say, “I need to go to the ATM machine,” he or she is really saying, “I need to go to the Automatic Teller Machine machine,” saying ‘machine’ twice, which is redundant. There are more than 1.8 million ATM’s in the world, putting an equal or greater number of human bank tellers out of work. There is even an ATM in Antarctica, so now you have a good reason to visit the land of penguins.

“Money is what you’d get on beautifully without if only other people weren’t so crazy about it.” -Margaret Case Harriman (Margaret Case Morgan Harriman (1904 - 1966))

Some American pennies made in 1982 and all American pennies made after 1982 contain zinc that has been electroplated, or coated, with copper. We have not tested this yet, but some folks say the coins can be mixed with mulch or soil in gardens to repel slugs. The slugs supposedly receive an unpleasant electric shock when they touch the copper and zinc combination.

Overheard: I would not say that inflation is making my life impossible, but I am now starving on an income that I used to dream about.
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It is believed that paper money was invented in the 9th century in China. Its original name was ‘flying money’ because it could easily blow away in the wind. However, they used it just briefly. The first time paper currency was consistently used was by the French in the 18th century.

“We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think.” -Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937)
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“Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.” -Bernard Lietaer: “The Future of Money” (2001)

“The usual definition of the functions of money are that money is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a standard of deferred payment and a store of value.” -Norman Angell: “The Story of Money” (1930)
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“Money can’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” -Bill Vaughan (William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan, also known by the pseudonym Burton Hillis (1915 - 1977))

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Overheard: I am having an ‘out of money’ experience.

“Make all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can.” -John Wesley (1703 - 1791)

Many coins have ridges, reeding, grooves, or letterings around their edges to discourage theft. Coins without such protection can have some of the gold, silver, or platinum filed off or shaved off their edges, making the coins slightly smaller, without immediately changing their overall appearance. In the distant past, shavings were collected and sold or were used to make counterfeit coins. While this type of theft is rare in modern times, because most coins are made of less valuable metals, the ridges, reeding, grooves, and letterings on the edges of coins remain as a tradition, and also can be a form of readable ‘braille’ for the visually-impaired.

In the 1600’s, a penny was worth about $1.66 in today’s money.

Jacqueline: What is the difference between a counterfeit dollar and a crazy rabbit?
Jacque: One is bad money, and the other is a mad bunny.
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The United States Mint is not the only place where money is made. Several organizations and communities within the United States make their own ‘money,’ and you may have used some of it. ‘Green stamps’ issued by grocers to their customers is another type of ‘money.’ Tokens used for playing video games are a form of money. Many colleges produce their own money for student use, and a few small communities, such as Ithaca, New York, make money to encourage spending at local small businesses. People exchange United States cash for organization or community dollars, or they earn them, and then use them to make purchases.

American dollar bills were first printed in their present size in 1929. All American dollar bills are now 2.625 inches wide by 6.125 inches long (2 and 5/8th inches wide x 6 and 1/8th inches long). American quarter coins are 1 inch in diameter. These are handy facts to know if you need to measure an object but have no ruler with you - just take out your money and use it to measure.

“What the country really needs is a good five cent nickel.” -Franklin P. Adams (Franklin Pierce Adams (1881 - 1960))

Most of the money in the world today is fiat money, meaning that it is not backed by gold or other precious metals, or even anything of tangible value. The term ‘fiat’ comes from the Latin for ‘let it be done.’ Fiat money is accepted because a government declares it official money, and it is backed by only the faith and trust in the government and the citizens.

“I don’t like money actually but it quiets the nerves.” -Joe E. Lewis (born Joseph Klewan (1902 - 1971))

Where was your money before it reached you? Did it travel around the country or did it stay in one town all its life? To find out, visit the money-tracking website www.wheresgeorge.com and enter the serial numbers found on your money.

Chrematophobia is a persistent fear of money. ‘Chrematophobia’ is derived from the Greek words ‘chrimata’ meaning ‘money’ and ‘phobos’ meaning ‘fear.’ Among the sufferers of this phobia, some worry that they might mismanage money. Others worry that money might be ‘the root of all evil.’ Actually, this is a common misunderstanding; the actual quotation from “The Bible” is, “love of money is the root of all evil.” So, it might be okay to have money, but not okay to have tender feelings for it.

“No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in ”P. S. I Love You,” compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Junior

Reasons Loving Money Is A Bad Idea
- It can’t love you back.
- It will leave you for someone else.
- It’s probably laughing at you right now.
Can you think of other reasons why loving money is a bad idea?
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“Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it’s completely useless as far as I’m concerned.” -Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

Money does not grow on trees - not even on genetically modified ones . . .

The word ‘cash’ originated in ancient China, where people carried coins in bundles held together by strings, to prevent the loss of individual coins. A bundle of one hundred coins was called ‘one cash.’ The Chinese possible got their word for cash from Portugal, where the people called their coins ‘caixa’ (pronounced as ‘cash-a’).

Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free yearly trip around the Sun, which many people find hard to pass up.

Has your money been in an unfortunate accident? The Office of Currency Standards will replace damaged money if a person can present at least 51 percent of the note to officials. Every year, the United States Treasury handles around 30,000 claims and redeems mutilated currency valued at over $30 million.
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“You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.” -Garth Brooks (Troyal Garth Brooks (born 1962))

Some of the finest examples of public art are on the money you carry in your pocket or purse.
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The average life of American bills and coins in circulation (in use) is as follows.
- $1 bill: 18 months.
- $5 bill: 2 years.
- $10 bill: 3.5 years.
- $20 bill: 4 years.
- $50 bill: 3.5 years.
- $100 bill: 9 years.
- All coins: 30 years.

Though sometimes called ‘paper money,’ American currency is fabric, not paper. It is composed of 25 percent linen and 75 percent cotton, and has tiny red and blue synthetic fibers of different lengths evenly distributed throughout it. If it were paper, it would easily fall apart when you leave it in the pockets of clothes that you put into your washing machine. It is said that many years ago, in Benjamin Franklin’s day, people repaired torn bills with a needle and thread.

“Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.” -Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
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“If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” -Henry Ford (1863 - 1947): as quoted in “Reader’s Digest” (1933)

According to several studies, the money people carry in their pockets, wallets, and purses is truly disgusting stuff. Both bills and coins can have contaminants on them, including the pathogens salmonella and E.coli. Pathogens are tiny organisms that can be seen only with a microscope, and which can make people sick. To avoid illness, always wash your hands after handling money and before handling food, whether you are at home or in a restaurant.
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“If money does not make you happy, give it back.” -Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

The word ‘coin’ is from the Latin word ‘cuneus’ meaning ‘wedge,’ because the dye for stamping metal coins was wedge-shaped.

“Money isn’t everything, but lack of money isn’t anything.” -Franklin Pierce Adams (1881 - 1960): as quoted in Robert E. Drennan, editor: “The Algonquin Wits” (1985)

The currency most traded around the world, and especially in international transactions, is the American dollar. Other heavily traded currencies are the Eurozone euro, the Japanese yen, and the British pound sterling.

“Recession: A period of time when we have to do without things our grandparents never even heard of.” -Author Unknown

The Latin phrase ‘E Pluribus Unum,’ meaning ‘Out of Many, One,’ appearing on American currency, refers to the United States of America being one country made out of many states.

“The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.” -Katharine Whitehorn (Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn (born 1928))

The word ‘dollar’ is derived from the German word ‘taler,’ an abbreviation of Joachimstaler, a town that was near a silver mine. The silver from the mine was used to make taler, a type of silver coin.

“Throw money at a problem and it will remain.” -Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica): “Winterheart’s Guild” music album
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British monarch Queen Elizabeth II holds the record for appearing on more currency than any other person. Her portrait has appeared on the currency of more than 30 different countries.

“Spare no expense in making everything as economical as possible.” -Author Unknown

The motto ‘In God We Trust’ first appeared on American money between 1864 and 1873 on the two-cent coin. It reappeared in 1955, and in 1963, the motto appeared on American paper currency. ‘In God We Trust’ now appears on all new coins and bills.

Inflation: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
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The country with the worst inflation in the world is Zimbabwe. In 2008, it experienced 6,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 percent inflation.

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” -Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972): as quoted in the “Observer” (13 April 1958)

“Money isn’t everything, usually it isn’t even enough.” -Author Unknown

293 ways exist to make change for an American dollar. Demonstrating this requires just 4 quarters, 10 dimes, 20 nickels and 100 pennies.
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Nickel: A dollar after the taxes have been subtracted from it.

“Money is the common denominator to all, yet holds title to nothing.” -Author Unknown

Most money in the world today is not in the form of bills or coins, but exists as ones and zeros inside computers at government facilities as well as at financial institutions such as banks, credit unions, and brokerage houses.

“The use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money.” -Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin ‘Ben’ Franklin (1706 - 1790)): “Poor Richard’s Almanack” (1737)

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Faith And Belief

4/20/2025

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“Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we’ll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
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“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.” -Louis L’Amour (Louis Dearborn L’Amour (born Louis Dearborn LaMoore (1908 - 1988))) at https://www.louislamour.com/

“I truly believe we can either see the connections, celebrate them, and express gratitude for our blessings, or we can see life as a string of coincidences that have no meaning or connection. For me, I’m going to believe in miracles, celebrate life, rejoice in the views of eternity, and hope my choices will create a positive ripple effect in the lives of others. This is my choice.” -Mike Ericksen
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“Sometimes the only available transportation is a leap of faith.” -Margaret Shepard

“Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.” -Mark Victor Hansen (born 1948)

“To me faith means not worrying.” -John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430))

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Faith

Doubt sees the obstacles,
     Faith sees the way.

Doubt sees the darkest night,
     Faith sees the day.

Doubt dreads to take a step,
     Faith soars on high.

Doubt questions, “Who believes?”
     Faith answers, “I.”

By Author Unknown
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“Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.” -Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)

“Start each day by saying to yourself, ‘I can do this.’ As you leave home, say to yourself, ‘I can do this.’ At each step along the way, say, ‘I can do this!’ You can, and you will, because you are an ‘I can do this’ kind of person with faith in yourself, and the knowing that ‘I can do this.’” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Let your faith be bigger than your fear.” -Author Unknown
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“Faith does not make things easy. It makes them possible.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible,” Luke, chapter 1, verse 37

“Faith never fails: it is a miracle worker. It looks beyond all boundaries, transcends all limitations, penetrates all obstacles, and sees the goal.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924))

“Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure.” -Charles L. Allen (Charles Livingstone Allen (1913 - 2005))
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“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “The Bible” (King James Version (1611)), ‘Epistle to the Hebrews,’ chapter 11, verse 1

“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on Earth, yet she will never fly with them to Heaven.” -Francis Beaumont

“Faith plus action equals transformation.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)

“Fear, too, is a type of faith - faith that it won’t work out.” -Mary Tricky (similar quotation attributed to Elizabeth David)
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“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” -Madeleine L’Engle (Madeleine L’Engle Camp (1918 - 2007))

“Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” -Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), commenting on belief in God (a quotation often referred to by persons other than its author as ‘Pascal’s Wager’)

“If I didn’t have spiritual faith, I would be a pessimist. But I’m an optimist. I’ve read the last page in the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.” -Billy Graham (William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior (born 1918))
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“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” -Rabindranath Tagore (also known as Ravīndranātha Thākura, born Rabindranath Thakur (1861 - 1941))

“We have no way to know anything for certain except by faith.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that ‘I can do it’ - is the opposite of fear (‘What if I fail?’). And faith creates motivation, which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation . . . and eventually success.” -Howard Twilley (born 1943)
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“We are what we believe we are.” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963))

“A little fish, overhearing a fisherman remark that water is essential to life, became panicky and swam desperately in search of water, until it reached the ocean and asked a wise old fish where it could find water. The old timer laughed and said, ‘Why, you’ve never been out of water. You’ve had water all the time, but you didn’t know it.’ So it is with faith; you have it, it is with you. You simply have to realize and use it and it will grow.” -Author Unknown

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I Believe

I believe in the Sun,
   even when it is not shining.
I believe in love,
   even when I do not feel it.
I believe in God,
   even when He is silent.

By Author Unknown: lines written on the wall of a cellar that had been a hiding place for persecuted Jews in Cologne, Germany during World War 2; the poem was discovered after the building had been destroyed by bombing

“Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

“Act like you are blessed. Talk like you are blessed. Walk like you are blessed. Put actions behind your faith and one day you will see it become a reality.” -Joel Osteen (born 1963)

“Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.” -Athenaeus of Naucratis (C.E. 170 - C.E. 223) (about C.E. 200)

Faith

Faith . . .
Makes the outlook calm,
the uplook constant,
the inlook accurate.

Faith . . .
Makes yesterday a stepping stone,
today a new beginning
tomorrow a limitless possibility.

By Author Unknown

“Faith is the hostess that will not entertain doubt.” -Jenna Wright

“I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy” (1897)

“Nor do I seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand. For this too I believe, that unless I first believe, I shall not understand.” -Anselm of Canterbury (about 1033 - about 1109)

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” -Alex Hamilton (born 1936): “Born Old” radio broadcast, as quoted in the “Listener” (9 November 1978)

“Faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.” -Rosemary M. Wixom

“This is a time when we need faith, faith of a very definite and positive nature, the faith that will lead us to optimism. I believe that pessimism grows out of a lack of faith.” -Antoine R. Ivins
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“Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach (born 1947) at http://www.sarahbanbreathnach.com/

“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.” -Augustine of Hippo (also known as Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (C.E. 354 - C.E. 430)): “Ioannis Evangelium”

“Faith is a refusal to panic.” -D. Martyn Lloyd
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“Rarely do we find ourselves in circumstances in which we cannot choose for ourselves between faith and belief or doubt and uncertainty.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.” -Viktor E. Frankl (Viktor Emil Frankl (1905 - 1997))

“It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.” - Thomas Robert Gaines
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“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” -Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright (1867 - 1959)

“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.” -Beatrix Potter (Helen Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943))

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

“Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)

“In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.” -Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 - 1829)
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“I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the Sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981)): “The Story of Civilization” (1935 - 1975), volume 6, ‘The Reformation’ (1957), ‘Preface’

“The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.” -Brené Brown (Casandra Brené Brown (born 1965))
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“The question what to believe is perhaps the most momentous that anyone can put to himself. Our beliefs are not to be classed among the luxuries, but among the necessaries of existence.” -Felix Adler (1851 - 1933)

Faith

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
And you take the first step into the darkness of the unknown,
You must believe that one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
Or you will be taught to fly.

By Patrick Overton (Patrick Miles Overton (born 1948)): “The Leaning Tree” (1 January 1975); type of work: collected poems by a single author in book form; author website: https://patrickoverton.com
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“Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.” -William R. Inge (William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954))

“As the essence of courage is to stake one’s life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.” -William Salter
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“The abundance of courage came from an abundance of faith.” -Donald Trump (Donald John Trump (born 1946))

“The progress of mankind has always depended upon those who, seemingly isolated and powerless in their own day, have seen their vision and remained true to it. In the darkening corridors of time, they preserved integral their vision of the daylight at the end. This is a matter not of calculation but of faith. Our work may be small and its results invisible to us. But we may rest assured it will come to fruition in God’s good time.” -John Ferguson (1921 - 1989): “The Enthronement of Love” (1 January 1950)
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“They are able because they think they are able.” [translation to English]
“Possunt, quia posse videntur.” [original Latin]
-Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.)): “The Aeneid” (about 29 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.), Book V, line 231; variously translated as “They can because they think they can.”

“Faith is courage; it is creative. Despair is always destructive.” -David S. Muzzey
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“Believe in yourself. Believe in your capacity to do good and great things. Believe that no mountain is so high that you cannot climb it. Believe that no storm is so great that you cannot weather it. Believe in yourself.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))

“He does not believe, that does not live according to his Belief.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 1838

“It is a good thing to believe; it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards, our minds will themselves grow upwards; as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of those he despises.” -Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875)

“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners” (1821 - 1822), ‘On Great and Little Things’

“The only thing that separates any one of us from excellence is fear, and the opposite of fear is faith.” -Michael J. Fox (pseudonym of Michael Andrew Fox (born 1961))

“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Senior (1809 - 1894): “The Poet at the Breakfast Table” (1872)

“We always act, feel, and perform according to what we imagine and believe to be true, about ourselves and our surroundings.” -Author Unknown

“Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.” -E. F. Schumacher

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Environmentalism And Animal Rights

4/19/2025

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“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.” -Bradley Millar

“I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.” -Stephen Fry (born 1957)

“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes.” -P. J. O’Rourke (Patrick Jake O’Rourke (born 1947))

Kindness To Animals

Speak gently to the herring and kindly to the calf,
     Be blithesome with the bunny, at barnacles don’t laugh!
Give nuts unto the monkey, and buns unto the bear,
     Ne’er hint at currant jelly if you chance to see a hare!

Oh, little girls, pray hide your combs when tortoises draw nigh,
     And never in the hearing of a pigeon whisper Pie!
But give the stranded jelly-fish a shove into the sea, -
     Be always kind to animals wherever you may be!

Oh, make not game of sparrows, nor faces at the ram,
     And ne’er allude to mint sauce when calling on a lamb.
Don’t beard the thoughtful oyster, don’t dare the cod to crimp,
     Don’t cheat the pike, or ever try to pot the playful shrimp.

Tread lightly on the turning worm, don’t bruise the butterfly,
     Don’t ridicule the wry-neck, nor sneer at salmon-fry;
Oh, ne’er delight to make dogs fight, nor bantams disagree, -
     Be always kind to animals wherever you may be!

Be lenient with lobsters, and ever kind to crabs,
     And be not disrespectful to cuttle-fish or dabs;
Chase not the Cochin-China, chaff not the ox obese,
     And babble not of feather-beds in company with geese.

Be tender with the tadpole, and let the limpet thrive,
     Be merciful to mussels, don’t skin your eels alive;
When talking to a turtle don’t mention calipee-
     Be always kind to animals wherever you may be.

By J. Ashby-Sterry

“And all young people are concerned environmentalists, but no one is interested in keeping the schoolyard clean!” -David McKay (David Oman McKay (1873 - 1970))

“I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.” -José Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955): “Meditations of Quixote” (1911)

“When your environment is clean you feel happy, motivated, and healthy.” -Lailah Gifty Akita: “Think Great: Be Great!” (31 October 2014)
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“We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.” -Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965): “The Philosophy of Civilization” (1951)

“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.” -Jack Handey (born 1949): “Deep Thoughts” (1992)

“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.” -Henrik Ibsen (Henrik Johan ‘Henrik’ Ibsen (1828 - 1906))

“The environment is everything that isn’t me.” -Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.” -Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964): “Silent Spring” (27 September 1962)

“Remember, people, if you were meant to have a fur coat, nature would have given you one. Do not be a thief and steal a fur coat from some animal who is its rightful owner.” -Author Unknown

“Our goal is not just an environment of clean air and water and scenic beauty. The objective is an environment of decency, quality, and mutual respect for all other human beings and all other living creatures.” -Gaylord Nelson (Gaylord Anton Nelson (1916 - 2005)): upon starting the first Earth Day in 1970
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When is Earth Day? Earth Day is observed by environmental activists on 22 April of each year. If you are a regular person and not an environmental activist, Earth Day is every day.

Unless
someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It’s not.
-Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “The Lorax” (18 June 1971)

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster region has become one of the world’s most unique wildlife sanctuaries, with thriving populations of wolves, deer, beavers, eagles, fish, and other animals.

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” - Jacques Cousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910 - 1997))

“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.” -Christine Stevens
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“Strip mining prevents forest fires.” -Author Unknown

Ninety-nine percent of all plant and animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct - not because of human activity, but because each species has a ‘life cycle.’ Every species appears, possibly goes through some changes, and then vanishes. This is part of the natural ‘cycle of life.’ By some estimates, animal species average about five million years of existence. Everything that begins also ends.

“No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.” -Murray Banks (1917 - 2008)

“Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.” -Sam Graves

Wrong-Way Alien

A curious creature from Saturn
Came to Earth on some orbital pattern.
     It saw our brown air,
     And cement everywhere,
And screamed, “Why did I take that turn?!”

By Author Unknown
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Thou canst not stir a flower
     Without troubling of a star.
-Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)

“For the first time in history, one bag of groceries produces two bags of trash.” -Robert Orben (1927 - 2023)

What should you do if you discover an endangered animal that eats only endangered plants?

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in 1866. It is a long-standing organization, unlike the here-today-and-gone-tomorrow groups of obnoxious hip young attention seekers who hold noisy protest demonstrations in front of shopping malls and on street corners. Additionally, the ASPCA has fantastic pet toys so that you and your furry friend can play together. The ASPCA website is www.aspca.org.
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“Nature provides a free lunch but only if we control our appetites.” -William D. Ruckelshaus

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‘Tree-hugger’ is another name for an environmentalist.

Each year, the United States of America produces enough plastic wrap to shrink-wrap the entire state of Texas. Are you thinking what we’re thinking? Let’s do it!

Thames In Flames

In England, when crossing the Thames,
It sparkles and shimmers, like James.
It’s even reputed
To be unpolluted,
Though in places it bursts into flames!

By Author Unknown

“No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.” -Garrett Hardin: as quoted in “The Ecologist” (February 1974)

Animal Rights Activist: Ma’am, do you realize some poor dumb beast suffered horribly so that you could wear that mink coat you have on?
Woman: How dare you talk that way about my husband!
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“With everything we read about spray cans and the ozone layer, it’s enough to scareosol to death.” -Author Unknown

Bulldozer

Modern technology
Owes ecology
An apology.

By Alan M. Eddison: as quoted in Rosemary McDougall: “Worse Verse” (1969)
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“The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.” -Burton Hillis (pseudonym of William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan (1915 - 1977))

“Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.” -Author Unknown: “The Bible,” ‘Book of Revelation,’ chapter 7, verse 3

“When we study the habits of animals in a truly sympathetic way and become thoroughly acquainted with them and with the work that each one is performing, we shall see that each one has its place in the economy of God’s world, that each has its part to play, and that even so far as the animal world is concerned, we are all related and inter-related. If we destroy or permit to be destroyed that marvelous balance which the Divine Power has instituted in the Universe, we do it at our own peril. Instead, then, of being the enemies of the animal world, instead of being its persecutors and its destroyers, we should be its friends and helpers.” -Ralph Waldo Trine: “Every Living Creature: Or, Heart-Training Through the Animal World” (1899), page 64
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“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” -Wendell Berry (Wendell Erdman Berry (born 1934))

The worst air polluter in the entire state of Washington, United States of America, is a volcano that goes by the name of Mount Saint Helens.

“(Henry Bergh) was a notable defender of animals, and was the founder, in 1866, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This was the first humane society in the United States, antedating - a strange commentary - the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, founded by another Fifth Avenue resident, Elbridge T. Gerry, in 1874. Bergh was originally outraged by the treatment of horses on New York’s streets, especially the overworked beasts that pulled the omnibuses and stages.” -Jerry E. Patterson: “Fifth Avenue: The Best Address” (1998)
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“A zoo is a facility where animals are imprisoned for the crime of being different from us.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Nobody knows the exact age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.” -Author Unknown

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” -Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

This animal is very bad:
When attacked, it defends itself.
-Theodore P. K.
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America The Beautiful

O beautiful for smoggy skies
Insecticided grains
For strip-mined mountains, majesty
Above the asphalt plain.
America, America,
Man sheds his waste on thee
And hides the pines
With billboard signs
From sea to oily sea!

By George Carlin (George Denis Patrick Carlin (1937 - 2008))

“Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.” -Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)

China produces more than 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks every year, using an estimated 25 million trees to do so. Hmmm . . . kinda makes reusable chopsticks seem like a good alternative, perhaps?
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“Protect the birds. The dove brings peace and the stork brings tax exemptions.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)

“Each generation takes the Earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.” -J. Sterling Morton

Little Timmy, age five, was looking at a picture book. When he came to a picture of a zebra, his father asked him what animal that was. Timmy thought a moment, and then answered, “It’s a cow that ate bio-engineered corn.”

“Love thy neighbor, whether thy neighbor is a fuzzy bunny or a chirping chickadee or a grandpa who wears stripes with plaids.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“I personally can see no reason for conceding mind to my fellow men and denying it to animals . . . I at least cannot doubt that the interests and activities of animals are correlated with awareness and feeling in the same way as my own and which may be for aught I know just as vivid.” -Walter Russel Brain (1895 - 1966)

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
-William Blake (1757 - 1827): ‘Auguries of Innocence’ (1803), lines 5 and 6; type of work: poem

“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734)

“Pollution: The dirtiest word in the world.” -Author Unknown
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It turns out that everything is actually everything else, just recycled. Matter becomes energy, and energy becomes matter, and so on. Nothing is ever destroyed, it just changes form. The Universe is a giant recycling system.

“Save a tree. Eat a beaver.” -Author Unknown

The Green Thing

In the line at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags were not good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, “We didn’t have the green thing back in my day.” The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment.” He was right - our generation did not have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles and soda bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one television, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every room. And, the television had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn’t it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from an opinionated young person.

By Author Unknown

Some landfilled trash retains its original weight, volume, and form for 40 years or longer.
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“Save the krill. Eat a whale.” -Author Unknown

“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests . . . It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods - trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries . . . God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools - only Uncle Sam can do that.” -John Muir (1838 - 1914): “Our National Parks” (1901), chapter 10

“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” -Marshall McLuhan (Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)) (1965)

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.” -R. Buckminster Fuller (Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895 - 1983))

“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.” -Author Unknown: Indian proverb

“We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our children, that we forget about leaving better children to this planet. Educate your children - say ‘no’ to them every once in a while.” -Author Unknown
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“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself - a point that seems to escape many people.” -Gerald Durrell

“Extinction is Forever.” -Author Unknown: Friends of the Animals

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” -Ross Perot (Henry Ross ‘Ross’ Perot (1930 - 2019)) at https://www.rossperot.com/

Hurt No Living Thing

Hurt no living thing:
Ladybug, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper so light of leap.
Nor dancing gnat, or beetle flat,
Nor harmless worms that creep.

By Christina Rossetti (Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894))

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Teddy Bears And Plush Toys

4/18/2025

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“Long before I grew up, my Teddy Bear taught me what love really meant: being there when you’re needed.” -Jim Nelson
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Melissa: What did the Teddy Bear say when he was offered a second helping?
Chrissy: “No thanks; I’m already stuffed!”
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Tad: What’s the difference between Teddy Bears and apples?
Tod: Teddy Bears don’t grow on trees.
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The history of Teddy Bears is believed to have started in about 1902 or shortly thereafter, when the first stuffed Teddy Bears were produced by the Ideal Novelty & Toy Company in America and also by the Steiff Company in Germany. The origin of the name ‘Teddy Bear’ is claimed to be derived from the twenty-sixth American President, Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919; in office 1901 - 1909). His nickname was ‘Teddy,’ so technically, the ‘Teddy Bear’ would be his namesake.

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“A bear knows all your secrets - and keeps them.” -Rosanne Brown

Two Little Teddy Bears

Two little Teddy Bears
     Big brown eyes
Fluffy little Teddy Bears
     Making mud pies
Muddy little paws, dirty little feet
     Making mud pies is a very special treat
Pop them in the oven
     Bake them in the oven
Bake them till they’re brown
     Our mud pies are the best in town
Ask all the other Bears
     Won’t you come to tea
To eat the finest mud pies
     In the whole country?

By Author Unknown

Bernie: What do Teddy Bears do when it rains?
Barney: They get wet.
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Once upon a time there were three bears . . . three Teddy Bears, that is . . . and the rest of the story awaits upon your imagination . . .
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“My Teddy was there when I had no friends to play with, no one to talk to, no one to share my little woes or my big joys. He looked constant and was constant. He never aged, no matter how tattered he became. His smell was the smell of my years as a boy, and he alone knew everything. Now, when I see him on the shelf, he is like my flesh and my soul - older, worn, but still full of happiness.” -Robert Kunciov

Theodore: How do Teddy Bears keep their houses cool in Summer?
Ted: They use bear-conditioning.

“It is astonishing, really, how many thoroughly mature, well-adjusted grown-ups harbor a Teddy Bear - which is perhaps why they are thoroughly mature and well-adjusted.” -Joseph Lempa

“Teddy Bears live more commonly in the arms of children than in the woods.” -Author Unknown
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Ellie: What do you call a Teddy Bear at the North Pole?
Allie: Lost!

Dutch police cars carry toy Teddy Bears in case something troubling happens to a child.

Theo: How do Teddy Bears send their letters?
Teddy: By bear mail, of course!
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Shakespeare pre-dated the Teddy Bear, but he captured the companionship and bond we share with our bears when he wrote: “He was my friend, faithful, and just to me . . .” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

“A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.” -Charlotte Gray

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The Teddy Bears Picnic

If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise.
     If you go down in the woods today, you’d better go in disguise.
For every bear that ever there was will gather there for certain,
     Because today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

Every teddy bear who’s been good is sure of a treat today.
     There’s lots of marvelous things to eat and wonderful games to play.
Beneath the trees where nobody sees they’ll hide and seek as long as they please,
     That’s the way the teddy bears have their picnic.

Picnic time for teddy bears,
     The little teddy bears are having a lovely time today,
Watch them, catch them unawares and see them picnic on their holiday,
     See them gaily gad about.

They love to play and shout,
     They never have any cares,
At six o’clock their mummies and daddies will take them back home to bed,
     Because they’re tired little teddy bears.

If you go down in the woods today, you better not go alone,
     It’s lovely down in the woods today, but safer to stay at home,
For every bear that ever there was will gather there for certain,
     Because today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

-Music composed by John Walter Bratton (1867 - 1947) (1907)
-Song lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy (James ‘Jimmy’ Kennedy (1902 - 1984)) (1932)

“After people and dolls, Teddy Bears are the third most likely guests to be invited to tea parties.” -Author Unknown

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“The gift of a Teddy Bear is good for boys and girls of nearly any age, as well as men and women; they are acceptable in all seasons and on all holidays; they are found in homes, hospitals, and schools. They bring warmth and a sense of belonging to new arrivals in orphanages, foster homes, and emergency shelters. It is not unknown for them to be given by police officers, firefighters, paramedics, soldiers, and rescuers, to persons in distress. As a practical matter, they take up little space, are easily packed and carried, and can double as a pillow for one’s head. They are never out-of-date. In a store somewhere is a Teddy Bear or perhaps a few dozen, waiting to be picked up and presented by you as a welcome gift to someone who is certain to be appreciative.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“A bedroom without a Teddy is like a face without a smile.” -Gil Davies

“The world is divided into two nations: those with Teddy bears, those without. Each thinks the other is odd.” -Jenny De Vries
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“There’s no bear like an old bear.” -Samantha Armstrong

Teddy Bear

Teddy was under the lilac bush -
when the snow went away we found him there.
And one of his shoe-button eyes was lost
and the shine was gone from his yellow hair.
But Teddy blinked with his last black eye
and said that he really didn’t care
(except that his cave was a trifle cold)
as long as we came and found him there.
And he said with a smile on his white yarn mouth
that Real bears slept in a cave or lair
All through the Winter . . . and if they could,
well then, why couldn’t a Teddy Bear?

By Aileen Fisher (Aileen Lucia Fisher (1906 - 2002))

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“One never quite gets over a lost bear.” -Jane Swan

“Whoever said, ‘Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,’ would retract that statement after seeing the sparkle in a Teddy’s eyes.” -Lana T. Zeis

“Now that I’m all grown up, I can buy any old Teddy Bear I want - except the old Teddy Bear I want.” -William Sternman

Nellie: Why couldn’t the Teddy Bear finish his lunch?
Nettie: Because he was stuffed!

“There’s just something about a Teddy Bear that’s impossible to explain. When you hold one in your arms, you get a feeling of love, comfort, and security. It’s almost supernatural.” -James Ownby
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“A Teddy Bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.” -Pat Brown

Vincent: What is the difference between a Teddy Bear and a turkey?
Sylvia: If you don’t know, maybe you shouldn’t cook any holiday dinners!
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Fuzzy: How do you start a Teddy Bear race?
Wuzzy: Teddy, set, go!

“A bear grows more alive with age. No one with an ounce of sensitivity could ever consign a bear to the dustbin.” -Johnnie Hague
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“All bears merit a dignified old age.” -Peter Gray

Tricia: What kind of umbrella does a Teddy Bear carry in the rain?
Beatrice: A wet one!
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“Bears are just about the only toy that can lose just about everything and still maintain their dignity and worth.” -Samantha Armstrong

“Anyone who has looked a Teddy Bear in the face will recognize the friendly twinkle in his knowing look.” -Harold Nadolny
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“A Teddy Bear’s virtue is that he cannot love himself . . . only others.” -Ted Menten

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Your Tiny Teddy Bear

I will be your tiny Teddy Bear,
     And when you need comforting, I will be there!
I’m huggable, lovable, and portable,
     And for the value I bring, I’m quite affordable!
I am cushiony soft and squeezable,
     And I need no batteries, and I am hand-washable!
I am waiting for you, in a shop all alone,
     And now . . . please pick me up and take me home!

By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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Teddy Bears are one of the most popular gifts to present at baby showers and to newborn babies.
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Scientifically known by the Latin name ‘Ursus theodorus domesticus,’ teddy bears are a member of the animalia kingdom, in the family plush toys and genus stuffed animals. They are known to live in a symbiotic relationship with humans. Teddy bears were first identified as a unique species sometime around or shortly after 1902, and at times can somewhat resemble a close relative and likely ancestral forebear, ‘Ursus americanus lutelous,’ known commonly as the Louisiana black bear, although possessing a greater variety in fur coloration. Teddy bears inhabit every continent and at present are not considered to be an endangered species.

“You really don’t have to be young to find a friend in a Teddy Bear.” -Rachel Newman
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Threadbare Ted

Ted the threadbare Teddy Bear
Thought at first he was of no use and later
Discovered he had a flare for being there
Which is mostly what is required
In times of need.

By David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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For just the right Teddy Bear, visit Vermont Teddy Bears at https://www.VermontTeddyBear.com/ and be sure to let them know you found out about them from www.MakeFunOfLife.net.
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Geoffrey: Why did Teddy Bear not eat dessert?
George: Because he was already stuffed.

“Once a bear has been loved by a human being, its expression is forever marked.” -Jama Kim Rattigan
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“A Teddy Bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is outgrown.” -Pat Brown
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Risks And Rewards

4/17/2025

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“When we try to be safe, we live our lives being very, very careful; and we wind up having no lives.” -Byron Katie (Byron Kathleen ‘Katie’ Mitchell (born 1942))
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“You have to be careful about being too careful.” -Beryl Pfizer (1928 - 2016)

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” -Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 - 1970))

“What is life, but one long risk?” -Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879 - 1958)
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“They say we are all one risk away from being financially independent.” -Author Unknown

“I risked much, but I made much.” -P. T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891))

“All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing.” -Herodotus (about 484 B.C.E. - about 425 B.C.E.)

“The greatest rewards in life go to the risk takers.” -Jim McCormick (James ‘Jim’ McCormick (1856 - 1918))
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“‘You’ve got to be able to make those daring leaps or you’re nowhere,’ said Muskrat.” -Russell Hoban (Russell Conwell Hoban (1925 - 2011)): “The Mouse and His Child” (1967)

“Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over 18. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 per week.” -Author Unknown: Pony Express advertisement (1860)
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“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.” -John Heywood (1497 - 1580): “A Dialogue of Proverbs” (1546)

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Aaron!
Aaron, who?
Aaron on the side of caution!
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“Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.” -Karl Wallenda (1905 - 1978)

“If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.” -Hank Aaron (Henry Louis ‘Hank’ Aaron (born 1934))
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“Ever since I started flying jets I’ve been driving cars slower and slower. I can’t explain why - just cautious.” -James Jabara (1923 - 1966)

“We fail by not taking risks.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“No noble thing can be done without risk.” -Michel de Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592))

“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.” -Author Unknown
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“There’s as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.” -Trammell Crow (Fred ‘Trammell’ Crow (1914 - 2009))

“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.” -H. Jackson Brown, Junior (Harriett Jackson Brown, Junior (born 1940))

“Land is always in the mind of the flying birds.” -Author Unknown
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“The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.” -Leo Buscaglia (Felice Leonardo ‘Leo’ Buscaglia, also known as Leo F. Buscaglia (1924 - 1998))

“There’s no such thing as a risk-free life.” -Author Unknown
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“Just remember, kid: if it doesn’t kill you, it makes a great story later on.” -Adam Savage (Adam Whitney Savage (born 1967))

“The only way to be absolutely safe is never to try anything for the first time.” -Magnus Pyke (Magnus Alfred Pyke (1908 - 1992))
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“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” -Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” -Herodotus (484 B.C.E. - 425 B.C.E.)
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“There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.” -Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964) (1955)

“Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” -David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
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“The trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.” -Erica Jong (Erica Mann Jong (born 1942)): “How to Save Your Own Life” (1977)

“Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.” -Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett (1721 - 1771))
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“Naught venture, naught have.” -Thomas Tusser (about 1524 - 1580)

The Cautious Man

There was a very cautious man
     Who never laughed or played.
He never risked, he never tried,
     He never sang or prayed.
And when he one day passed away,
     His insurance was denied.
For since he never really lived,
     They claimed he never died.

By Author Unknown

“Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.” -Shirley Hufstedler (Shirley Ann Mount Hufstedler (1925 - 2016))
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“Leap, and the net will appear.” -John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)

“Look before you leap.” -Robert Greene (1558 - 1592): “Greenes Never Too Late” (1590)

“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.” -William James (1842 - 1910): “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy” (1897)

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All things considered, activities such as parachuting are less dangerous to your health and longevity than eating starchy foods and staring at the screens of televisions, computers, and cell phones day after day . . . give yourself a break!

“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach (born 1947) at http://www.sarahbanbreathnach.com/

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” -George S. Patton (George Smith Patton, Junior (1885 - 1945))

“Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.” -Hugh Walpole (Hugh Seymour ‘Hugh’ Walpole (1884 - 1941))

“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.” -Pietro Metastasio (pseudonym of Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (1698 - 1782))

“When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.” -Barbara Sher (born 1935)

“If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.” -Neil Simon (Marvin ‘Neil’ Simon (1927 - 2018))

“There is no safety. Only varying degrees of risk.” -Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949)

“Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.” -Robert Collier (1885 - 1950)

“He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732)

“For me, the safest place is out on a limb.” -Shirley MacLaine (pseudonym of Shirley MacLean Beaty (born 1934))

“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on Earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” -Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Murry (born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (1888 - 1923))): “The Journal of Katherine Mansfield” (1927), ‘14 October 1922’ at http://www.katherinemansfield.com/

“If you don’t live on the edge, you can’t see the view.” -Vicky Corrington

“Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that makes you feel great once you’ve done it.” -Susan Jeffers (1938 - 2012)
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“If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.” -Julia Sorel (pseudonym of Rosalyn Drexler): ”See How She Runs” (1978)

Who Am I?

Who am I?
Where you are, I am.
Where you go, I go.
I am always and everywhere,
I am in everything.
Though perhaps you think of me not,
Though perhaps you do not even know,
I am dangerous.
There are stairs to fall down,
Curbs to trip over.
Falling trees.
Yet also new friendships, gardens to grow.
There is rejection, failure, disappointment.
There is acceptance, success, satisfaction.
I await you in every new attempt.
I am every risk you take,
And I am every risk you do not take.

By David Hugh Beaumont (Born 1966)

“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.” -Tim McMahon (born 1949)

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” -Colin Cowherd (Colin Murray Cowherd (born 1964))

“Take risks - if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” -Author Unknown
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“The biggest risk you will ever take is not taking one at all.” -Author Unknown

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))): as quoted in Dorothy Carnegie, editor: “Dale Carnegie’s Scrapbook” (1 January 1959)

“If you take no risks, you’ll never be hurt, but you won’t really live, either.” -James Shiovitz (James Lowell Shiovitz (born 1949))

“We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.” -David Grayson (1870 - 1946)
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“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.” -Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937): as attributed in Ichak Adizes: “How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis” (1979)

“The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.” -Roger Babson (1875 - 1967)

“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously!” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)): “Die fröhliche Wissenschaft” (English: “The Gay Science”) (1882), book 4

“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” -Geena Davis (Virginia Elizabeth ‘Geena’ Davis (born 1956))
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“It is not given us to live lives of undisrupted calm, boredom, and mediocrity. It is given us to be edge-dwellers.” -Jay Deacon (F. Jay Deacon)

“Don’t be careful. You could hurt yourself.” -Byron Katie (Byron Kathleen ‘Katie’ Mitchell (born 1942))

“Live dangerously and you live right.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Affirmation: “I will subject myself to life’s challenges so that I may know the grace of survival.” -Author Unknown
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“Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.” -Ben Carson (Benjamin Solomon ‘Ben’ Carson, Senior (born 1951)): “Take The Risk” (2007), page 58

“He that is overcautious will accomplish nothing.” [translation to English]
“Wer gar zu viel bedenkt, wird wenig leisten.” [original German]
-Friedrich von Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)): “Wilhelm Tell” (1804)

“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” -Karen Gibbs

Overheard: Take a chance; you never know what might happen.
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“The biggest rewards usually go to those who take the biggest risks.” -Author Unknown

“The desire for security stands against every great and noble enterprise.” -Tacitus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 120)

“It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.” -Dag Hammarskjöld (1905 - 1961)

“If you don’t take risks, you will always work for someone who does.” -Author Unknown
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“Without the very few risk takers who risk it all, none of us would enjoy freedom, because tyrants and oppressors are tireless and fearless in their determination to control humanity and the world, and the majority will do absolutely nothing to stop them.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.” -Augustus Hare (Augustus William Hare (1792 - 1834))

“Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.” -Johann von Schiller (Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)): “Don Carlos” (1787) play

“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://deniswaitley.com/

“Everything is a risk. What if it doesn’t work out? Oh - but what if it does?” -Mary Engelbreit (born 1952)
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965))

“If it’s both terrifying and amazing, then you should definitely pursue it.” -Erada Svetlana

“Dare to be what you ought to be; dare to be what you dream to be; dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“Of course risk taking does not always pay off. But it’s a lot of fun!” -Mary Wesley (born Mary Aline Mynors Farmar (1912 - 2002))

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Dance And Dancing

4/16/2025

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“There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.” -Vicki Baum
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“When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.” -Bill Austin

“When dancing, if you get confused, just jump around and wave your arms.” -Author Unknown

“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” -John Dryden (1631 - 1700)

A Tango dancer once decided to shine his dirty shoes by rubbing them against his trousers while dancing in a competition. Thinking that he was doing a dance move, other people started doing it . . . and that is the story of how the ‘Shine’ dance move began.
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“Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.” -Martha Graham: as quoted in “I Am a Dancer” written for the radio program, “This I Believe,” published in “This I Believe,” Volume 2 (1952); also in Alexandra Carter and Janet O’Shea: “The Routledge Dance Studies Reader” (1998), page 96

The Polka Dance

My cousin Nance came from France
   To teach me the Polka dance.
First the heels, then the toes,
   Yes, that’s the way the Polka goes.

By Author Unknown
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“Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing.” -Kathryn Murray

“Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.” -Author Unknown

Hugh: Why is the new dance named ‘The Elevator’?
Grant: Because it has no steps!

“Learning to walk set you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express your whole self, the person you are.” -Melissa Hayden (pseudonym of Mildred Herman (1923 - 2006))
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We Are The Dancers

We dance for laughter,
     We dance for tears,
We dance for madness,
     We dance for fears,
We dance for happiness,
     We dance for screams,
We are the dancers . . .
     We create the dreams!

By Author Unknown
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“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))

“We are fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.” -Author Unknown
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The Old Woman From France

There came an old woman from France
Who taught grown-up children to dance;
   But they were so stiff,
   She sent them home in a sniff,
This sprightly old woman from France.

By Author Unknown
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“As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.” -Suzanne Farrell

“‘On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined!’ is my motto, whether there’s any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910))

“We do not always dance because we are happy, but we dance and cannot help but become happy.” -Author Unknown

“Our classes are our practices. Our dance sneakers are our equipment. Our teacher is our coach. Our dance clothes are our jerseys. Our performances are our matches. Our audiences are our fans. Our concert is our tournament. The rhythm is our rule. Failure is our opponent; we will not lose. This is our game. This is our sport.” -Vala Yankovski

Esther: Why did the tap dancer retire?
Astaire: He kept falling in the sink.

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“You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.” -Author Unknown

“You don’t grow old and stop dancing; you stop dancing and grow old.” -Jessie M. Newburn
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Some Actual Dance Names
- The Construction Worker
- The Fruit Bowl
- The Jay Walker
- The Lame Duck
- The Road Runner
- The Robot
- The Slip and Slide
- The Trampoline Dance
- The Trip and Fall
Can you think of other dances with zany names?

“Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.” -Dave Barry (David McAlister Barry (born 1947))

Dance And Dancing Facts
- Moderate dancing burns 250 to 300 calories an hour.
- Somewhere someone is dancing even as you read these very words.
- Now it’s your turn - what do you know about dancing, or would you just like to get up and dance?

“We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life.” -Martha Graham

“All that music and only two feet.” -Author Unknown

“I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy, and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.” -Jean Georges Noverre
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“I never dance, unless I am allowed to do it in my own peculiar way. There is no use trying to describe it: it has to be seen to be believed . . . . Did you ever see the Rhinoceros, and the Hippopotamus, at the Zoological Gardens, trying to dance a minuet together? It is a touching sight.” -Lewis Carroll: letter (27 December 1873) to Gaynor Simpson: as published in Evelyn M. Hatch, editor, “A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll to his Child-Friends” (1933)

“Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you’re made of.” -Andrew Asnes

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“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))

“Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.” -Fred Astaire (pseudonym of Frederick Austerlitz (1899 - 1987))

Fae: Why did the rooster dance across the floor?
Phineas: To ask the hen to dance.
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“I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.” -Fred Astaire (pseudonym of Frederick Austerlitz (1899 - 1987))

“Happiness is finding the right dance partner.” -Author Unknown
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Types of Dances and Dance Styles
- Ballet
- Ballroom
- Couples
- Disco
- Irish Jig
- Line
- Polka
- Solo
- Square
- Tap
Can you think of other types of dances or dance styles?

“Enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.” -Jacques d’Amboise
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“Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone’s toes, pretty much the same as life.” -Robert Brault (1938 - 2016) at rbrault.blogspot.com

“Some dance floors are so crowded you can’t tell who your partner is.” -Author Unknown

“It’s not magic! It’s physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright.” -Deborah Bull

“If you stumble, make it part of the dance.” -Author Unknown
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“Dance when you hear music.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.” -George Balanchine (Georgy Melitonovich Balanchivadze)

“On dancing on pointe: Why don’t they just get taller girls?” -Henny Youngman (Henry ‘Henny’ Youngman (1906 - 1998))

“There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.” -Mary Lou Cook (1918 - 2013)
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“Dancing is the art of pulling your feet away faster than your partner can step on them.” -Author Unknown

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“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.” [translation to English]
“La danse, c’est la poésie avec des bras et des jambs.” [original French]
-Charles Baudelaire (Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)): “La Fanfarlo” (1847)

“The Earth sets some music going in us and dance we must.” -Ludwig Boone

“No sane man will dance.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))

“There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.” -Edwin Denby (Edwin Orr Denby (1903 - 1983))

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.” -Merce Cunningham

“Why walk when you can dance?” -Author Unknown
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“They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.” -Publius Terentius Afer (also known simply as Terence (185 B.C.E. - 159 B.C.E.))

“Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance . . . is a celebration of that miracle.” -Martha Graham

Joy: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Bliss: To get to the barn dance, of course!
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“To dance is to live.” -John Milton (1608 - 1674): “L’Allegro” (1645)

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

“In life, as in dance, grace glides on blistered feet.” -Alice Abrams

“I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.” -Suzanne Farrell
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Chorophobia is a persistent fear dancing. Weddings, proms, and parties may pose problems for those who suffer from a fear of dancing. Try singing instead . . . la, la, la, la! Everybody can do something, right? Okay, maybe whistling? Counting on your fingers and toes?
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“Everything in the Universe has rhythm - everything dances.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))

“Dancers have a very hard job. We must take our ugly, callused, blistered, and bruised feet and present them in a way so that they are mistaken as the most beautiful things on Earth.” -Author Unknown
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“Thousands of emotions well up inside me throughout the day. They are released when I dance.” -attributed to Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

“. . . those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.” -Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)

“I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don’t seem so bad. There’s no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.” -Patrick Swayze (Patrick Wayne Swayze (1952 - 2009))

“There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.” -John Selden
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“Dance is the only art in which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.” -Ted Shawn

“Dance isn’t just about fancy footwork. It requires grace, discipline, and major muscles.” -Author Unknown

“Dancing is silent poetry.” -Simonides

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” -Mikhail Baryshnikov (Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (born 1948))
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“On the dance floor, as in life, you’re only as good as your partner.” -Robin Marantz Henig

“If you think dancers aren’t athletes, think again.” -Author Unknown

“Dance is music made visible.” -George Balanchine
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“If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance.” -George Carlin (George Denis Patrick Carlin (1937 - 2008)): “Napalm and Silly Putty” (2001)

There was an old lady of France,
Who taught little ducklings to dance;
When she said, “Tick-a-tack!” -
They only said, “Quack!”
Which grieved that old lady of France.
-Edward Lear

“Dancing is like life: it’s good to have a plan, but be prepared to improvise.” -Author Unknown

“When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.” -Lee Ann Womack
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“We are accompanied by the whole dancing universe.” -Ruth St. Denis

“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” -Anne Lamott

“Life is a dance, from one stage to the next.” -Author Unknown
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“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” -Wayne Dyer (Wayne Walter Dyer (born 1940))

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair . . .” -Susan Polis Shutz (born 1944 as Susan Polis)
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Overheard: Do you hear that? That music means I have to dance!

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Efforts And Benefits

4/15/2025

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“You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com

“Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.” -John M. Capozzi: “Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator” (1994)
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“Much effort, much prosperity.” -Euripides (480 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.)

“I believe people who work 12 hours a day should go home with bigger loaves of bread than people who work 8.” -Michael Levine
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“Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing yourself to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.” -Mary Lou Retton (Mary Lou ‘Lou’ Retton (born 1968))

Abundance comes not at your Beck.
The Fowls must Scratch before they Peck.
-Arthur Guiterman (1871 - 1943): “A Poet’s Proverbs” (1924), ‘Of Thrift’

“When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))
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“Always take a job that is too big for you.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)

“Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912)

“Who knows whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” -Erich Fromm (Erich Seligmann Fromm (1900 - 1980))

“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “The Spirit of the Age” (1825), ‘Mr. Brougham - Sir F. Burdett’

“Efforts can have some amazing benefits.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
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“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” -Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (1858 - 1919))

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
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All that you do, do with all your might -
Things done by half are never quite right.
-Author Unknown

“Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.” -Adam Smith (1723 - 1790): “The Wealth of Nations” (1776)
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“The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.” -Luc de Clapiers (1715 - 1747)

“Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all other causes.” -Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)

“All great success and achievement is preceded and accompanied by hard, hard, work. When in doubt, ‘try harder.’ And if that doesn’t work, try harder still!” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” -Richard Bach (Richard David Bach (born 1936))

“Energy, even like the Biblical grain of mustard-seed, will move mountains.” -Hosea Ballou (1771 - 1852)

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” -William Faulkner (William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner (1897 - 1962))
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“Nothing worth it ever comes without first putting in the hard work.” -Author Unknown

“The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://deniswaitley.com/

“It’s true that the willing horse gets the heaviest load. It is also true that he develops the strongest muscles and gets the most oats.” -Author Unknown
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“We work to become, not to acquire.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915)): “A Thousand and One Epigrams” (1911)

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“No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.” -Channing Pollock (1880 - 1946)

“Hard work pays off.” -Author Unknown

Without Pains,
No Gains.
-Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings” (1732), number 6360

“You get what you work for, not what you wish for.” -Author Unknown
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“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.” -Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819 - 1881)

“Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the tradeoff they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.” -Lou Holtz (Louis Leo ‘Lou’ Holtz (born 1937))

“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior (1841 - 1935)

“There’s no substitute for hard work.” -John Wooden (John Robert Wooden (1910 - 2010))

“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.” -James Allen (1864 - 1912): “As a Man Thinketh” (1902), ‘Visions and Ideals’

“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

“He that would eat the fruit, must climb the tree.” -Author Unknown: Scottish proverb

“He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.” -Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

“Whatever you give to life will return to you - multiplied! This applies to our daily thoughts, feelings, and actions, be they positive or negative, uplifting or depressing.” -Frederick W. Babbel (Frederick William Babbel (1915 - 2001))
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“Nobody gets to run the mill by doing run-of-the-mill work.” -Thomas J. Frey

“Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

“No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.” -Charles Kendall Adams (1835 - 1902)

“The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.” -Thomas Cowan (Thomas ‘Tom’ Cowan (born 1969))
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“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” -Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin ‘Calvin’ Coolidge, Junior (1872 - 1933))

“If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.” -Xun Kuang (also known as Hsun Tzu, Xun Zi, and Xunzi (about 310 B.C.E. - about 235 B.C.E.))

“Be hard-working and surround yourself with hard-working people.” -Author Unknown
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“Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.” -Janice Markowitz

“There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, ‘I am willing that my business should prosper or that my farm should yield plentifully but I’ll not stir a peg.’ But he is no more foolish than the man who says, ‘I am willing that God should bless me abundantly but I shall not do anything toward that end myself.’ We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.” -Charles W. Nibley (Charles Wilson Nibley (1849 - 1931))

“If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you.” -Michael Jordan (born 1963)

“Nobody ever found a buried treasure without digging for it. Most success is beneath the surface. Dig every day.” -George W. Cummings, Senior: as quoted in Paul D. Cummings: “Lessons at the Fence Post” (November 1996)
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“It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.” -Claude M. Bristol (Claude Myron Bristol (1891 - 1951))

“Nothing will work unless you do.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” -Edward H. Harriman (Edward Henry Harriman)
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“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.” -John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)

“If you’re not willing to put in the effort, don’t expect anything in return.” -Author Unknown
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If little labor, little are our gains;
Man’s fortunes are according to his pains.
-Robert Herrick (about 1591 - 1674)

“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919): as quoted in Larry Change: “Wisdom for the Soul” (2006), page 678

“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” -Roger Bannister (Roger Gilbert Bannister (1929 - 2018))

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Liane Cordes: “The Reflecting Pond: Meditations for Self-Discovery” (1981), page 89
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“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are stacked against you.” -Arnold Palmer (Arnold Daniel Palmer (1929 - 2016))

“Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.” -William J. H. Boetcker (William John Henry Boetcker (1873 - 1962))

“It is better to wear out than to rust out.” -Frances E. Willard (Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839 - 1898))

“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” -Lowell Thomas (Lowell Jackson Thomas (1892 - 1981))
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“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): as quoted in Horace Smith: “The Tin Trumpet” (1859)

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.” -Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824)

“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” -Jonas Salk (Jonas Edward Salk (1914 - 1995))

“Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.” -Booker T. Washington (Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856 - 1915))

“I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age.” -Christine Marie ‘Chris’ Evert (born 1954)

“I’ve got a theory that if you give one-hundred percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” -Larry Bird (Larry Joe Bird (born 1956))
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“Four little words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: A little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.” -A. Lou Vickery

“Do more than you’re supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.” -Bill Sands (born 1953)
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“If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.” -Jigoro Kano: as quoted in Neil Ohlenkamp: “Black Belt: Judo Skills and Techniques” (2006), page 36

“Celebrate the effort, for it is in the trying that you discover you.” -Sima Dahl

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Picture of music notes in various colors, and the words, Humor And Inspiration And Learning About Music Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont - Visit www.MakeFunOfLife.net.

“My music is best understood by children and animals.” -Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): as quoted in the “Sunday Observer” (8 October 1961)

“One man’s noise is another man’s music.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“All of one’s life is a music, if one touches the notes rightly and in time.” -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900): “The Ethics of the Dust” (1875), ‘Lecture IV: The Crystal Orders,’ section 35

A New Song

There was a composer named Zong
Who composed a new popular song.
     It was simply the croon
     Of a lovesick baboon,
With occasional thumps on the gong.

By Author Unknown
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“I think the first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song. The song was called ‘Hobo Bill’s Last Ride.’ And I thought it was the most wonderful, amazing thing that I’d ever heard.” -Johnny Cash (1932 - 2003)

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” -Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “Journals,” ‘January 13, 1857’
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In holy music’s golden speech
     Remotest notes to notes respond:
Each octave is a world; yet each
     Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.
-Aubrey Thomas de Vere (born Aubrey Thomas Hunt (1814 - 1902))

Eric: My brother has been practicing the violin for twenty years.
Zack: He must be really good.
Eric: Not really - it was nineteen and a half years before he realized you aren’t supposed to blow into it.
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“Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

Wesley: Why did the music teacher need a ladder?
Leslie: To reach the high notes.
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“Today’s music has all the variety of a jackhammer.” -Gregory Benford (born 1941): “The Sigma Structure Symphony” (2012), reprinted in Paula Guran, editor: “Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries & Lore” (2017), page 357

Martha: What comes before a tuba?
Bertha: A one-ba.

Martha: What comes after a tuba?
Bertha: A three-ba.
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“The great object of music is to touch the heart.” -Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (also known as Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714 - 1788))

“There is nothing to it. You only have to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.” -J. S. Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)): as quoted in K. Geiringer: “The Bach Family” (1954), ‘Of the Organ’

Among the fun and unusual musical instruments are didgeridoos, kazoos, pots and pans, slide whistles, washboards, wooden spoons, zinks (cornets), and zithers.

Kevin: What instrument plays only sour notes?
Marvin: A pickle-o.
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“Of all the noises, I think music the least disagreeable.” -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784): as quoted in the “Morning Chronicle” (16 August 1816)

“Music is well said to be the speech of angels: in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “The Opera” (1852)

“The hardest thing in the world is to start an orchestra, and the next hardest, to stop it.” -Hans Richter (1843 - 1916)
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“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): “The Mill on the Floss” (1860), Book VI, chapter vi

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Austrian composer Joseph Haydn composed his Quartet Number 49 in D-major for two violins, viola and violoncello, in the year 1785. For the most part, it is a thoughtful and serious work, but in Opus 50, Number 6, a frog can be heard croaking loudly, even stridently, in sounds produced by playing the same notes alternately on two neighboring strings. This part of the set is popularly known as ‘The Frog.’

Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Harmony.
Harmony, who?
Harmony more jokes like these can a person take?
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“Long before there was human music, the harmony and rhythm of nature, such as falling rain (rhythm section), wind whispering in the trees and rocks (wind instruments), and pounding thunder (percussion instruments), all soothed the savage beast.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

Clarinet players
Are smarter than trombonists
Because they can reed
-Guy Ben-Moshe
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“Musick is the thing of the world that I love most.” -Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703): “Diary of Samuel Pepys,” ‘July 30, 1666’

“. . . music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life . . .” [translation to English]
“. . . die Musik wäscht ihnen den Alltagsstaub von der Seele . . .” [original German]
-Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882): “Auf der Höhe” (English: “On the Heights”) (1866) novel
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“I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.” -Dizzy Gillespie (John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie (1917 - 1993))

Marla: Why did the punk rocker take a pen and paper onstage?
Darla: He wanted to draw a big crowd.
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“Music is a part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.” -Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (about C.E. 480 - about C.E. 524): “De Institutione Musica”

“Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired.” -Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (C.E. 475 - C.E. 523)
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The Tutor

A Tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot.
     Said the two to the Tutor,
     “Is it harder to toot, or
To tutor two tooters to toot?”

By Carolyn Wells (Carolyn Wells Houghton (1862 - 1942))

“Give me the making of the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.” -Andrew Fletcher (1655 - 1716): “Conversation Concerning a Right Regulation of Government for the Common Good of Mankind” (1703)

Jessica: What kind of sound comes from a refrigerator with a built-in stereo?
Jillian: Very cool music.

Adolphe Sax was born in Belgium in the early nineteenth century. He grew up accident prone: He was struck on the head by a brick, swallowed a needle, fell down a flight of stairs, toppled himself onto a burning stove, and accidentally drank sulfuric acid. None of this, however, prevented him from perfecting, in 1835, a wind instrument combining the reed mouthpiece of a clarinet with a bent conical tube of metal, equipped with finger keys. In his honor, it is called the saxophone.
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There’s music in the sighing of a reed;
     There’s music in the gushing of a rill;
There’s music in all things, if men had ears:
     Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
-George Gordon Byron (also known as Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)): “Don Juan” (1818 - 1824), Canto XV, Stanza 5

Two musicians were walking down the street, and one said to the other, “Was that a piccolo I saw you with last night?” The other replied, “That was no piccolo, that was my fife.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” -Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Ann Johnson (1928 - 2014))

Oboe: An English tramp.

Dancer: Say, can’t you stretch the music a little longer - just a dance or two more?
Band Leader: Sorry, sir, this isn’t a rubber band.
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“I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments.” -John Cage (John Milton Cage, Junior (1912 - 1992)): “The Future of Music: Credo” (1937)

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“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.” -Thomas Fuller (about 1608 - 1661): “The History of the Worthies of England” (1662), ‘Musicians’

“Music is what feelings sound like.” -Author Unknown
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Sign on a music shop door: Gone Chopin. Back in a Minuet.

“Music is a friend of labor, for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.” -William Green (1873 - 1952)
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“Brass bands are all very well in their place: outdoors and several miles away.” -Thomas Beecham (1897 - 1961)

“Music is medicine to man.” -Author Unknown: inscription on Bell Number 4 at Saint Mary’s Church in Harrow-on-the-Hill, England
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“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” -Aristotle (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.): “Complete Works of Aristotle,” Volume 1

“Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.” -John Chrysostom (about C.E. 345 - C.E. 407)

Suggested Minimum Safe Distances Between Street Musicians And Audiences
- Violinist: 25 feet.
- Bad violinist: 50 feet.
- Tone-deaf guitar player who knows 3 chords: 75 feet.
- 15 year-old electric guitar player with a Nirvana complex: 100 feet.
- Accordionist: 60 miles.
- Bagpipe player: 2 continents.
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“I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn’t like it when you join in.” -Mick Miller

“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.” -Jean Paul Richter (pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763 - 1825)): “Titan” (1800 - 1803)

If you wanted to learn to play a musical instrument, which one would you choose, and why?
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“Music doth extenuate fears, furies, appeaseth cruelty, abateth heaviness, and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.” -Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (also known simply as Cassiodorus (about C.E. 485 - about C.E. 585)): “The Divine Letters” (about 550)

“Music: A beautiful succession of sounds.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. If heed is not paid to this, it is not true music but a diabolical bawling and twanging.” -J. S. Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750))

Musical instruments have been traditionally grouped - for the most part - into one of four ‘Families,’ based on how they produce sound. The families are the Brasswind instruments, the Percussion instruments, the String instruments, and the Woodwind instruments. Additional families, including the Keyboard instruments and the Electronic instruments, have been suggested more recently. A few instruments, such as the piano, do not fit neatly into just one family group. The piano has strings that vibrate like the Stringed instruments, and hammers that strike like the Percussion instruments.
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“When you are about thirty-five years old, something terrible always happens to music.” -Steve Race

Brasswind instruments are made of brass or other metals, and make sound when air blows through them. The musician’s lips buzz against the mouthpiece, as though making a raspberry noise. Air then vibrates inside the instrument to produce sound. The Brasswind Family includes bugles, cornets, French horns, sousaphones, trombones, trumpets, tubas, and other instruments. Some people shorten ‘Brasswind’ to simply ‘Brass.’

The definition of a flute, according to David W. Barber in his book “A Musician’s Dictionary” is as follows: “A sophisticated pea-shooter with a range up to five hundred yards and deadly accuracy in close quarters. Blown transversely to confuse the enemy, it can be dismantled into three small pieces, for easy concealment.”

The human body can make a wide range of different vocal and percussive sounds. The vocalizations can include singing, chanting, humming, and yodeling. Percussives include clapping the hands, clicking the tongue, and snapping the fingers.
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Who hears music feels his solitude
Peopled at once.
-Robert Browning (1812 - 1889): “Balaustions Adventure” (1871), line 323 and 324

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String instruments create sound with strings. The strings may be plucked, as in a guitar or harp; bowed, as with a cello or a violin; or struck, as with a dulcimer. When the strings vibrate, they create sound. In addition to the instruments already mentioned, in the String Family are the banjos, basses, electric guitars, fiddles, ukuleles, violas, zithers, and other similar instruments.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of Heaven we have below.
-Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719): “Song for St Cectufs Day” (1692), stanza 3

“I have always loved music; who so has skill in this art is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers unless they have been well exercised in music.” -Martin Luther (1483 - 1546): “Table Talk” (1569)

Daren: What does a musician use to clean his teeth?
Karen: A tootbrush and a tuba tootpaste.
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Buffy: How do you fix a broken tuba?
Dottie: With a tuba glue.

Music is in all growing things;
And underneath the silky wings
Of smallest insects there is stirred
A pulse of air that must be heard;
Earth’s silence lives, and throbs, and sings.
-George Parsons Lathrop (1851 - 1898): “Music And Growth”
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“Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.” -Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716)

License plate seen on a professional bass clarinetist car: BSSCLRNT.
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“Never forget that music is much too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.” -Robert Fulghum (Robert Lee Fulghum (born 1937))

Percussion instruments make sound when they are struck, shaken, rubbed, scratched, or are otherwise subject to mechanical action. The Percussion Family includes bass drums, chimes, cowbells, cymbals, glockenspiels (bells), maracas, marimbas, snare drums, tam-tams (gongs), tambourines, timpani (kettle) drums, triangles, wood blocks, xylophones, and some other instruments. Grand pianos (uprights) can be included in this family, although they can also be included in the Strings and the Keyboards.

“If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.” -Author Unknown
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“‘Ah, music,’ he said, wiping his eyes. ‘A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!’” -J. K. Rowling (pseudonym of Joanne ‘Jo’ Rowling (born 1965)): “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” book (2005) and film (2009), words of character Albus Dumbledore

Good Reasons To Play The Tuba
8. People like shiny objects.
7. It is better than playing bagpipes.
6. When you play, people listen.
5. During rehearsal, you get to sit in the back of the room.
4. During marching practice, you can use the bell to block out the Sun.
3. People hold doors open for you.
2. You don’t have to wear those silly hats.
1. You will never be blamed for being the one with the squeaky reed.

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.” -Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye (1850 - 1896)), referring to Richard Wagner
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“The dulcimer is the wild animal of the musical kingdom. It can be anything: bagpipe, guitar, fiddle, banjo, slide guitar, harpsichord, mandolin, but mostly itself, a droning, angelic power chord of delicacy that lives in its own world, in tune with its surroundings at a level that the well-tempered revolution could never quite tame.” -David Schnaufer (1952 - 2006) ( 2005)
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“An agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.” -J. S. Bach (Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)), a definition of music: as quoted in Derek Watson: “Music Quotations” (1911)

“Music doth extenuate fears, furies, appeaseth cruelty, abateth heaviness, and to such as are wakeful it causeth quiet rest; it cures all irksomeness and heaviness of soul.” -Cassiodorus (about C.E. 485 - about C.E. 585)

“Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.” -Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
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Woodwind instruments produce sound when air (wind) is blown inside. Air might be blown across an edge, as with a flute; between a reed and a surface, as with a clarinet; or between two reeds, as with a bassoon. Sound is made when air vibrates inside the instruments. Other instruments belonging to the Woodwind Family include alto clarinets, alto saxophones, baritone saxophones, bass clarinets, English horns, oboes, piccolos, recorders, soprano saxophones, and tenor saxophones.

Music’s force can tame the furious beast;
Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain
His rage; the lion drops his crested mane
Attentive to the song.
-Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721): as published in John Wesley (1703 - 1791): “A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems From the Most Celebrated English Authors” (1744), Volume 1
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Keyboard instruments produce sound electronically, with the exception of upright pianos such as the Grand Piano, which can be included both in this group and in the Percussion Family, and organs, some of which could fit into the Brasswind or Woodwind instruments Families. Among the other members of the Keyboards are electronic keyboards and synthesizers. Electronic instruments can mimic the sounds of any musical instruments and can make their own unique sounds.

“Humming is mumbling musically.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)

“Music is the eye of the ear.” -Thomas Draxe (birth year unknown - 1618): “Bibliotheca” (1616)

James: How many jazz musicians does it take to change a light bulb?
Kirk: None - jazz musicians can’t afford light bulbs.
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One of the greatest conductors of all time was Arturo Toscanini, whose skill was shown during a rehearsal of Claude Debussy’s “La Mer.” He wanted to achieve an especially spiritual effect in one passage. His vocabulary in English was not vast, and he was at a loss for words to describe exactly what he wanted the orchestra to do. He took a large white silk handkerchief from his coat pocket and threw it high into the air. Every player in the group was mesmerized as the handkerchief floated softly and hypnotically to the floor. “There,” Toscanini said, smiling, “play it like that!”

“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” -Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)

Life has its music; let us seek a way
Not to jangle the chords whereon we play.
-Archilochus of Paros

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