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I Do a Lot of Office Fishing by Richard Salmon Some years ago, I started to look at the stars through high-powered binoculars and began reading books written by astronomers for people like me. I became an entranced stargazer for a while. The men who
Suffering Is Self-Manufactured by Leon J Saul I believe the immediate purpose of life is to live, to survive. All known forms of life go through life cycles. The basic plan is birth, maturing, mating, reproducing, death. Thus, the immediate purpose o
A Reporter Quotes His Sources by William L Shirer Its rather difficult in these noisy, confusing, nerve-racking days to achieve the peace of mind in which to pause for a moment to reflect on what you believe in. Theres so little time and opportunity
You Have to Water the Plant by Leland Stowe For the things I believe in, I must give a reporters answer. Like everyone else, its out of my own experience. For twenty-four years Ive been up to my neck in the worlds troubles; meeting people in dozens o
The Hidden World Around Us By Harry Overstreet Ever since Socrates was introduced to my adolescent mind he has been one chief master of my thinking. What he believed still seems to me to be indispensable for carrying on an intelligent and responsible
Paying the Rent of Service By Lee Bristol In a complex society and a complex civilization, the individual is inevitably confused much of the time. But I believe that the basic solution of all world and group problems must first be solved by the indiv
What Are People Good For? By Ina Corinne Brown One's beliefs are revealed not so much in words or in formal creeds as in the assumptions on which one habitually acts and in the basic values by which all choices are tested. The cornerstone of my own v
The Library of Congress is America's national library. It has more thanone-hundred-twenty-million books and other objects. It has newspapers, popular publications and letters of historical interest.It also has maps, photographs, art prints, movies, s
The place is full of mothers A small boy losing his mother in a supermarket ran through the ells ,yelling frantically, Eileen,Eileen .When his mother found him, she scolded him,Bobi,it isnt polite to call me Eileen, you should always call me mother.
Nails In The Fence There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into
When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim I briefly put aside my reading preference for fiction and history and bought one of those how-to books:How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan L
I Think I Can If you think you are beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't; If you want to win but think you can't; It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you're lost; For out of the world we find Success begins with a
If the Dream is Big Enough(I)---为了心中的梦想(一) I used to watch her from my kitchen widow, she seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often wa
The World as I See It My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a lone traveler and have ne
Hints For Those That Would Be Rich The Use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money. For £6 a Year you may have the Use of £100 if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty. He that spends a Grout a day idly, spends idly above £
Reading Good Books Devote some of your leisure, I repeat, to cultivating reading, a love of reading good books. Fortunate indeed are those who contrive to make themselves genuine book-lovers. For book- lovers have some noteworthy advantages over othe
Not included Tom see an advertisement in the newspaper for a beautiful modern bicycle which cost $89 dollars. So he went to the shop which put the advertisement in and asked to see one of the wonderful bicycles. The shopkeeper was very happy to show
Arabian Wisdom The heart is the noblest member of the body. A wise man said that the worst of men is he who allows an evil desire to take root in his heart; for he shall lose his manhood. A poet said: The wise will keep His treasure hid apart; True g
The Story of a Fire Thirteen years have passed since, but it is all to me as if it had happened yesterday, -- the clanging of the fire-bells, the hoarse shouts of the firemen, the wild rush and terror of the streets; then the great hush that fell upo