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Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful

Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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1101. Two Kinds of Love

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... your sun. The first gave you life and the second taught you to live in it. The first gave you a need for love and the second was there to give it. One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name, One gave you the seed of a talent the other gave you an aim. One gave you emotions, the other calmed your fears. One saw your first sweet smile, the other dried your tears. One gave you up it was all that she could do, The other prayed for a child and God led her straight to you ...

1102. Never Too Young Or Too Old

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Charles Swindoll

... plays was first produced. Mozart was just seven when his first composition was published. Now how about this? Benjamin Franklin was a newspaper columnist at 16 and a framer of the United States Constitution when he was 81. You're never too young or too old if you've got talent. Let's recognize that age has little to do with ability.

1103. Bible Ignorance

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Staff

... committee. And a bit uncertain, he began... Once upon a time a man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves; and the thorns grew up and choked the man. And he went on and met the Queen of Sheba, and she gave that man, Sir, a thousand talents of silver, and a hundred changes of raiment. And he got in his chariot and drove furiously, and as he was driving along under a big tree, his hair got caught in a limb and left him hanging here! And he hung there many days and many nights. The ravens ...

1104. Live Churches

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Staff

... are full of regular, cheerful givers; Dead churches are full of grudging tippers! Live churches move ahead on prayer and faith; Dead churches work only on sight! Live churches plant daughter churches; Dead churches fear spending the money, time, and talent! Live churches outgrow their Sunday School facilities; Dead churches have room to spare! Live churches welcome all classes of people; Dead churches stick to their own kind! Live churches' members read their Bibles and bring them to church; Dead churches ...

1105. Feeling a Fake

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H. Robinson

A Chinese boy who wanted to learn about jade went to study with a talented old teacher. This gentle man put a piece of the precious stone into his hand and told him to hold it tight. Then he began to talk of philosophy, men, women, the sun and almost everything under it. After an hour he took back the stone and sent the boy ...

1106. Dedication - It Will Cost You

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Gary Inrig

... pressure his young prodigy to work seriously at his art. One day he came into the studio to find Michelangelo toying with a piece of sculpture far beneath his abilities. Bertoldo grabbed a hammer, stomped across the room, and smashed the work into tiny pieces, shouting this unforgettable message, "Michelangelo, talent is cheap; dedication is costly!"

1107. The Coveted Compositions

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Staff

... composers of that day, such as Pachelbel, Froberger, Bohm, and Buxtehude. He wanted to borrow the book, but for some reason his brother refused. Perhaps brother Johann Christoph was reserving those pieces for his own study or performances and didn't want the talented youngster in his home to perfect the works first. Johann Sebastian clearly coveted his brother's book, however, and in the middle of the night, when everyone else in the house was asleep, he crept down to sneak the anthology from the cabinet ...

1108. Effort Statistics

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Robert McGarvey,

... , Riley inherited a team with a losing record. But the Knicks seemed able to play above their abilities and even gave the eventual champions, the Chicago Bulls, their hardest competition in the play-offs. How did Riley do it? He says his talent lies in attention to detail. For example, every NBA team studies videotapes and compiles statistics to evaluate players' game performances. But Riley's use of these tools is more comprehensive than that of his rivals. "We measure areas of performance that are often ...

1109. Hands Out of Tune

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Staff

In his early years, American landscape photographer Ansel Adams studied piano and showed some talent. At one party, however, as Adams played Chopin's F Major Nocturne he recalled that "In some strange way my right had started off in F-sharp major while my left had behaved well in F-major. I could not bring them together. I went through the entire nocturne with ...

1110. Hail the Bird!

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Staff

... him was a man who had a bird that he had taught to say, "Hail, Caesar victorious!" Caesar was impressed and bought the bird for a large sum. Then someone got Caesar aside and whispered to him that the man had another bird that was just as talented. The man was summoned and Caesar asked for a demonstration of what the other bird could do. The man demurred, but Caesar insisted. When the bird was produced it said, "Hail, Antony victorious!" The man of course was committed to neither Antony nor Caesar. He was ...

1111. A Letter of Introduction

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... not have to use it. He did not; his debut was a success and no snags developed. Some years later, while going through his papers, he came upon the letter and opened it. It read: "This will introduce Jan Paderewski, who plays the piano, for which he demonstrates no conspicuous talent."

1112. Insignificant: Effort Statistics

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Robert McGarvey

... 1991, Riley inherited a team with a losing record. But the Knicks seemed able to play above their abilities and even gave the eventual champions, the Chicago Bulls, their hardest competition in the playoffs. How did Riley do it? He said his talent was in the attention to detail. For example, every NBA team studies videotapes and compiles statistics to evaluate players' game performances. But Riley's use of these tools is more comprehensive than that of his rivals. He said, "We measure areas of performance ...

1113. Defying the Criticism

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Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky

A Universal executive dismissed both Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds at a meeting in 1959. To Burt Reynolds: "You have no talent." To Clint Eastwood: "You have a chip on your tooth, your Adam's apple sticks out too far, and you talk too slow." A United artists executive, dismissing the suggestion that Ronald Reagan be offered the starring role in the movie, The Best Man in 1964: "Reagan doesn't have the Presidential look."

1114. How to Stay at the Top

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Staff

... motivation techniques, suggests the most common mistakes: Trying to be liked rather than respected. Not asking your subordinates for their advice and help. Not developing a sense of responsibility in your subordinates, and not expecting it from your peers. Emphasizing rules rather than skills among your employees, and thwarting personal talent. Not keeping criticism constructive. Ignoring employee complaints. Keeping people uninformed not respecting their right to know.

1115. Andy Would Not Stay "Throwed"

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Staff

The story is told that Andrew Jackson's boyhood friends just couldn't understand how he became a famous general and then the President of the United States. They knew of other men who had greater talent but who never succeeded. One of Jackson's friends said, "Why, Jim Brown, who lived right down the pike from Jackson, was not only smarter but he could throw Andy three times out of four in a wrestling match. But look where Andy is now." Another friend responded, "How did ...

1116. Unwittingly Brutally Honest

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Staff

Managers and supervisors can sometimes tip-toe around being honest in the assessment of the people in their charge. Here's some intentional and unintentional humor found in personnel reports: This foreman has talents but has kept them well hidden. Can express a sentence in two paragraphs any time. A quiet, reticent manager. Industrious, tenacious, careful, and neat. I do not wish to have this woman as a member of my department under any circumstances. In any change in policy or procedure, he can ...

1117. The Buddy System

John 15:12

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Tim Hansel

... word circulated of the reason for Angus McGillivray's death, the feel of the camp began to change. Suddenly, men began to focus on their mates, their friends, and humanity of living beyond survival, of giving oneself away. They began to pool their talents one was a violin maker, another an orchestra leader, another a cabinet maker, another a professor. Soon the camp had an orchestra full of homemade instruments and a church called the "Church Without Walls" that was so powerful, so compelling, that even the ...

1118. How High Are Your Standards?

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Laurence Shames

... succeed is to keep one's striving low. Many people, by external standards, will be "successes." They will own homes, eat in better restaurants, dress well and, in some instances, perform socially useful work. Yet fewer people are putting themselves on the line, making as much of their minds and talents as they might. Frequently, success is what people settle for when they can't think of something noble enough to be worth failing at.

1119. The Missing Figure in the Nativity Scene

Mark 1:1-8

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King Duncan

... of the Lord.” We’re all too much like a proud mother, interestingly enough, named Mary. Mary was trying to get her son ready for the church’s annual Christmas program. Certain that the whole church clamored for her six-year-old Billy’s great talent, she looked forward to teaching him Joseph’s part. When he was only selected to play a wise man in the program, she decided he would be the best looking wise man in the program. Though she had an impossible holiday schedule, Mary frantically finished ...

1120. What Did You Do with the Ship?

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Staff

In the early days of luxury ocean liners, the evening entertainment was often chosen from the special talents of the passengers. On one night, the program featured a remarkable parrot which was followed by a skillful magician. The parrot was placed in his cage off to the side of the stage as the magician performed. The man first secured a bouquet from a nearby table, which he covered ...

1121. Don't Say This At Halftime

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Things a football coach should not say at half time: If you don't mind, I'm going to leave now to beat the traffic. Who's winning? Enough strategy. Let me tell you about my Amway products. They may have the talent, size and athleticism, but we've got the headbands! It's not over until . . . who am I kidding? It's over.

1122. Homesick for Mama

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A talented running back from Mississippi accepts a scholarship offer from a Yankee college far above the Mason-Dixon line. Two weeks into fall practice, he's so homesick he can't stand it. The coach suggests he call home for support. The kid goes to the telephone and says to the operator, "I wanna call Mama in Oktibbeha, Mississippi." "How do you spell that?" she asks. "M-a-m-a." "No, the city where you're calling how do you spell it?" "Lady, if I knew how to do that, I'd just write Mama a letter."

1123. Thanking Heaven

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Brett Blair

... toward heaven, he said, "No, no, not from me, but from thence comes all!" Having given the glory and praise to the Creator, he fell back into his chair exhausted. Perhaps that is the lesson Jesus would have the disciples learn. Haydn directed the crowd's attention away from his talents to God's, away from the beautiful music to a majestic God. Whether a great oratorio or a Temple devoted to God, neither deserves our devotion, only the One from thence comes all!

1124. The Simplex Faith of 3:16

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... t we? How strange it is that we take it as a sign of maturity, or sophistication, or learning, when we let the complexities of life suck all the simple joy out of our first loves. First loves are simple and sweet. Discovering a talent for taking apart and putting back together mechanical things. Delighting in measuring and mixing, cooking and creating in the kitchen. Finding the magical nature of numbers and equations. Being transported by the beauty of art or the sounds of music. All those “first loves ...

1125. Singing with Lutherans

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... as if you had asked them to strip to their under-wear. But if you do this among Lutherans they'll smile and row that boat ashore and up on the beach! And down the road! Lutherans are bred from childhood to sing in four-part harmony. It's a talent that comes from sitting on the lap of someone singing alto or tenor or bass and hearing the harmonic intervals by putting your little head against that person's rib cage. It's natural for Lutherans to sing in harmony. We're too modest to be soloists, too worldly to ...

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1101. Two Kinds of Love

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1102. Never Too Young Or Too Old

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

1103. Bible Ignorance

Illustration

Staff

1104. Live Churches

Illustration

Staff

1105. Feeling a Fake

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H. Robinson

1106. Dedication - It Will Cost You

Illustration

Gary Inrig

1107. The Coveted Compositions

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Staff

1108. Effort Statistics

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Robert McGarvey,

1109. Hands Out of Tune

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Staff

1110. Hail the Bird!

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Staff

1111. A Letter of Introduction

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1112. Insignificant: Effort Statistics

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Robert McGarvey

1113. Defying the Criticism

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Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky

1114. How to Stay at the Top

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Staff

1115. Andy Would Not Stay "Throwed"

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Staff

1116. Unwittingly Brutally Honest

Illustration

Staff

1117. The Buddy System

John 15:12

Illustration

Tim Hansel

1118. How High Are Your Standards?

Illustration

Laurence Shames

1119. The Missing Figure in the Nativity Scene

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

1120. What Did You Do with the Ship?

Humor Illustration

Staff

1121. Don't Say This At Halftime

Humor Illustration

1122. Homesick for Mama

Humor Illustration

1123. Thanking Heaven

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Illustration

Brett Blair

1124. The Simplex Faith of 3:16

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1125. Singing with Lutherans

Humor Illustration

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