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"If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any
account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly
be more than you have calculated." - Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both
bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and
economic opportunists." - Ernest Hemingway
"Worry affects circulation, the heart, and the glands. the whole nervous system, and
profoundly affects the heart. I have never known a man „ho die from overwork, but many
who died from doubt." - Charles Horace Mayo
"So you're the one." - Charlie Blackwood, Top Gun
"That is the largest accumulation of incompetent people that I know of any place in the world." -
Boone Pickens, regarding Washington, DC
Ponce de Leon was the first to explore the Florida coast. He famously searched for the Fountain
of Youth.
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
Splitting the baby - httn://en.wikinedia.ore/wiki/Judement of Solomon - The story is
recounted in the Bible, I Kings 3:16-28. Two young women who lived in the same house and
who both had an infant son came to King Solomon for a judgement. One of the women claimed
that the other, after accidentally smothering her own son while sleeping, had exchanged the two
children to make it appear that the living child was hers. The other woman denied this and so both
women claimed to be the mother of the living son and said that the dead boy belonged to the
other.
After some deliberation, King Solomon called for a sword to be brought before him. He
declared that there was only one fair solution: the live son must be split in two, each woman
receiving half of the child. The liar, in her bitter jealousy, exclaimed, "It shall be neither mine nor
yours—divide it!" However, upon hearing this terrible verdict, the boy's true mother cried out,
"Oh Lord, give the baby to her, just don't kill him!" The king gave the baby to the real mother.
King Solomon's judgement became known throughout all ofIsrael and was considered an
example of profound wisdom.
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