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4326. The Victories in Business

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Business is made up of ambiguous victories and nebulous defeats. Claim them all as victories. Keep track of what you do; someone is sure to ask. Be comfortable around senior managers, or learn to fake it. Never bring your boss a problem without some solution. You are getting paid to think, not to whine. Long hours don't mean anything; results ...

4327. Unclaimed Assets

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... in an alley, dead of natural causes, perhaps heart trouble. The interesting thing about Morris is that he had $207,421 in the bank at the time of his death. It seems that Morris' father died and left him the money ten years earlier. When Morris did not claim it, the Division of Unclaimed Property tracked him down, and his family forced him to accept it. He took only enough of the money to buy an old car, where he slept in bad weather. Relatives rented an apartment for him, but he never went there. He died ...

4328. The First Automobile Related Fatality

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Wikipedia

... head and chest. He was taken by ambulance to Roosevelt Hospital, but upon arrival the house surgeon, Dr. Marny said his injuries were too severe to survive and Bliss died from his sustained injuries the next morning. Arthur Smith, the driver of the taxicab, claimed that a large truck occupied the right side of the avenue, making it necessary to drive his vehicle closer to the car, however he was arrested and charged with manslaughter but was subsequently acquitted on the grounds that he had no malice, nor ...

4329. Faith On Your Terms

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Charles Colson

... morality. According to sociologist Robert Bellah, 81 percent of the American people also say they agree that "an individual should arrive at his or her own religious belief independent of any church or synagogue." Thus the key to the paradox is the fact that those who claim to be Christians are arriving at faith on their own terms; terms that make no demands on behavior. A woman named Sheila embodies this attitude. "I believe in God," she said. "I can't remember the last time I went to church. But my faith ...

4330. Hope From the Grave

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Warren W. Wiersbe

While waiting in a cemetery to conduct a funeral service, Charles Simeon walked among the graves, looking at the epitaphs. He found one that arrested him. When from the dust of death I rise, To claim my mansion in the skies, E'en then shall this be all my plea "Jesus hath lived and died for me." He was so impressed with that gospel message that he looked for someone in the cemetery with whom he might share it. He saw a young woman, obviously distressed, ...

4331. Flat Earthers

2 Pet 1:16; 1 John 1:1

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Brett Blair

... Globite!" The organization, backed by 1400 members from around the world...or rather, from across the plane, still gets scads of mail from dedicated teachers and students who blast it as a group of kooks and charlatans. Maybe it is, but Johnson claims the society's largest single group of members is doctors. Then come lawyers and other professional people, like engineers and architects. I think the make up of their members is fabricated. Why? Because they dismiss modern science as a club for sun worshippers ...

4332. Memorization of the Bible

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Jack Kuhatschek

While studying in the Holy Lands, a seminary professor of mine met a man who claimed to have memorized the Old Testament in Hebrew! Needless to say, the astonished professor asked for a demonstration. A few days later they sat together in the man's home. "Where shall we begin?" asked the man. "Psalm 1," replied my professor, who was an avid student of the psalms. ...

4333. Boasting: Getting Good Mileage

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... and pour a few gallons of gas into the tank. Soon the braggart was recording absolutely phenomenal mileage. He was boasting of getting as much as 90 miles per gallon, and the pranksters took secret delight in his exasperation as he tried to convince people of the truthfulness of his claims. It was even more fun to watch his reaction when they stopped refilling the tank. The poor fellow couldn't figure out what had happened to his car.

4334. Opportunities Missed

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Mark Twain

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! Put all thine eggs in the one basket and watch that basket.

4335. Promises You Can Keep

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A number of years ago the Douglas Aircraft company was competing with Boeing to sell Eastern Airlines its first big jets. War hero Eddie Rickenbacker, the head of Eastern Airlines, reportedly told Donald Douglas that the specifications and claims made by Douglas's company for the DC-8 were close to Boeing's on everything except noise suppression. Rickenbacker then gave Douglas one last chance to out-promise Boeing on this feature. After consulting with his engineers, Douglas reported that he didn't feel he ...

4336. Saving Christianity for the Christians

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B. Clayton Bell

... wanted to convert Americans to the Hindu religion, but when asked, Satis Prasad said, "Oh no, I would like to convert them to the Christian religion. Christianity cannot survive in the abstract. It needs not membership, but believers. The people of your country may claim they believe in Christianity, but from what I read at this distance, Christianity is more a custom than anything else. I would ask that either you accept the teachings of Jesus in your everyday life and in your affairs as a nation, or stop ...

4337. Many Ways To a Good Grade

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Tim Hansel

... told by Alexander Calandra: Sometime ago, I received a call from a colleague who asked if I would be the referee on the grading of an examination question. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed he should receive a perfect score and would if the system were not set up against the student. The instructor and the student agreed to submit this to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected. I went to my colleague's office and read the examination ...

4338. To Ether

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... first to use ether as an anesthetic, Boston dentist William Morton was credited with this discovery after using ether for a tooth extraction in the mid-1840s. But Morton had done so at the recommendation of Boston chemist Charles Jackson, who also claimed part of the credit. When the Massachusetts Historical Society decided to pay tribute to the discoverer of anesthesia, a monument was commissioned. But there was some dispute as to whether Morton's or Jackson's bust should adorn the statue. Realizing that ...

4339. Laugh Together, Weep Alone

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... of Passion. The collection was a great financial success. To her dismay, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, (now married) found the poem, word for word, in a book by John A. Joyce, published in 1885. The poem had a different title, "Laugh and the World Laughs With You", but Joyce claimed it as his own. Mrs. Wheeler offered $5,000 for any printed version of the poem dated earlier than her own. Neither Joyce nor anyone else ever produced one, but he continued to reprint the poem as his own until he died in 1915. As a final ...

4340. The Reason Why

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... cloth, carried it to his own freshly hewn tomb, and rolled the massive stone into its groove over the tomb's mouth. In the face of his grief, Joseph carried on. He did what he knew he had to do. None of Jesus' relatives were in a position to claim His body for burial, for they were all Galileans and none of them possessed a tomb in Jerusalem. The disciples weren't around to help either. But there was another reason for Joseph's act of love. In Isaiah 53:9, God directed the prophet to record an important ...

4341. A Moment of Silence

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Howard Hughes was worth 2.5 billion dollars at his death, then the richest man in the United States. He owned a private fleet of jets, hotels and casinos. When asked to claim his body, his nearest relative, a distant cousin, exclaimed, "Is this Mr. Hughes?" He had spent the last 15 years of his life a drug addict, too weak in the end to even administer the shots to himself. His 6'4" frame had shrunk to 6'1" and he weighed ...

4342. Death: The Hell Club

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Paul Lee Tan

... leap year; therefore it is a year and a day since our last annual meeting." After the meeting, he mounted his house to ride home. Next morning, his horse was found grazing quietly by the roadside. A few yards away lay the corpse of Archibald Boyle. The strange guide had claimed him at the appointed time.

4343. Dealing With Life's Setbacks

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... Davis was totally paralyzed by polio when he was nine years old, but he did not give up. He became the Olympic high jump champion in 1952. Shelly Mann was paralyzed by polio when she was five years old, but she would not give up. She eventually claimed eight different swimming records for the U.S. and won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In 1938, Karoly Takacs, a member of Hungary's world-champion pistol shooting team and sergeant in the army, lost his right hand when a grenade he ...

4344. Let the Bible Find You

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... became more and more perplexed. What did he do? He cancelled all preaching engagements, put all the books in a cupboard and locked the door, and went to the bookstore and bought a new Bible. He said to himself, "I am no longer sure that this is what my father claims it to be--the Word of God. But of this I am sure. If it be the Word of God, and if I come to it with an unprejudiced and open mind, it will bring assurance to my soul of itself." The result? "That Bible found me!" said Morgan. The ...

4345. A Positive Affliction

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James Dobson

... from sheer boredom. He drank too much and did very little work. Then he learned he had ALS Syndrome and was not expected to live more than two years. The ultimate effect of that diagnosis, beyond its initial shock, was extremely positive. He claimed to have been happier after he was afflicted than before. How can that be understood? Hawking provided the answer: "When one's expectations are reduced to zero," he said, "one really appreciates everything that one does have." Stated another way: contentment in ...

4346. He Forgives and Forgets

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David H. Bolton

... in the Philippines, a much-loved man of God who carried the burden of a secret sin he had committed many years before. He had repented but still had no peace, no sense of God's forgiveness. In his parish was a woman who deeply loved God and who claimed to have visions in which she spoke with Christ and he with her. The priest, however, was skeptical. To test her he said, "The next time you speak with Christ, I want you to ask him what sin your priest committed while he was in seminary." The woman agreed ...

4347. Copper Coins

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The story is told that one day a beggar by the roadside asked for alms from Alexander the Great as he passed by. The man was poor and wretched and had no claim upon the ruler, no right even to lift a solicitous hand. Yet the Emperor threw him several gold coins. A courtier was astonished at his generosity and commented, "Sir, copper coins would adequately meet a beggar's need. Why give him gold?" Alexander responded in royal fashion, "Copper coins would ...

4348. It Matters To Him About You

1 Peter 5:7

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... . A man of radiant faith, he kept a motto on his desk for many years that brought comfort, strength, and uplifting confidence to his heart. It read, "It matters to Him about you." Muller believed that those words captured the meaning of 1 Peter 5:7, and he rested his claim for divine help on that truth. He testified at the end of his life that the Lord had never failed to supply all his needs.

4349. Healing - Gone With One Call

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Philip Yancey

... traveled half a day to attend one of her meetings. The atmosphere was unbelievably charged soft organ music in the background; the murmuring sound of people praying aloud, some in strange tongues; and every few minutes a happy interruption when someone would stand and claim, "I'm healed!" One person especially made an impression, a man from Milwaukee who had been carried into the meeting on a stretcher. When he walked yes, walked onstage, we all cheered wildly. He told us he was a physician, and I was even ...

4350. A Chance Encounter

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... was to quickly dispense him to the ranks of the deerly departed. "Jin had already been admitted to a nearby hospital for repairs when state game officials called to tell him Wisconsin law holds that anyone who hits and kills a deer on a Wisconsin roadway can claim the deer. But since he didn't feel up to dealing with a dead deer, and since he didn't want to store the carcass in his station wagon in 80-degree heat while he recuperated overnight in the hospital, Jim declined the offer. He lamented his ...

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4326. The Victories in Business

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Source Unknown

4327. Unclaimed Assets

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Source Unknown

4328. The First Automobile Related Fatality

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Wikipedia

4329. Faith On Your Terms

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Charles Colson

4330. Hope From the Grave

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Warren W. Wiersbe

4331. Flat Earthers

2 Pet 1:16; 1 John 1:1

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Brett Blair

4332. Memorization of the Bible

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Jack Kuhatschek

4333. Boasting: Getting Good Mileage

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4334. Opportunities Missed

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Mark Twain

4335. Promises You Can Keep

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Staff

4336. Saving Christianity for the Christians

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B. Clayton Bell

4337. Many Ways To a Good Grade

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Tim Hansel

4338. To Ether

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Staff

4339. Laugh Together, Weep Alone

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4340. The Reason Why

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Staff

4341. A Moment of Silence

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4342. Death: The Hell Club

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Paul Lee Tan

4343. Dealing With Life's Setbacks

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4344. Let the Bible Find You

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4345. A Positive Affliction

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James Dobson

4346. He Forgives and Forgets

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David H. Bolton

4347. Copper Coins

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Source Unknown

4348. It Matters To Him About You

1 Peter 5:7

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4349. Healing - Gone With One Call

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Philip Yancey

4350. A Chance Encounter

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