Tag: peace
member name: Debra C.
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September 30, 2008 12:24 PM EDT --
"Fear is, I believe, a most effective
tool in destroying the soul of an
individual -- and the soul of a people."
-- Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat was the third president . . .
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February 11, 2008 09:31 AM EST --
I came across this quote while reading this morning. It seemed like a great challenge for the day.
"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds . . .
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June 11, 2008 11:07 AM EDT --
Anyone who is capable of
getting themselves made President,
should on no account
be allowed to do the job!
-- Douglas Adams, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . . .
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September 26, 2008 01:35 PM EDT --
Carla G. posted an article regarding the 9/23 incident of Obama being hung in effigy at George Fox University. She quoted from President Robin Baker's denunciation of this action.
That . . .
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December 25, 2007 01:03 PM EST --
It is said that Edmund Sears was asked to write a poem by a friend, W. P. Lunt, who was a minister in Quincy, Massachusetts, for their 1849 Sunday School Christmas . . .
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April 22, 2008 11:54 AM EDT --
I recently came on an interesting site for swapping books, CDs and DVDs.
Swaptree was founded in 2004. You join, enter UPC codes of the articles you want to exchange, and their site attempts to find . . .
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April 26, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
Twenty-two years ago, today, Ukraine and the world experienced the meltdown of one reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power facility. Radiation was carried by prevailing winds across Europe, though the . . .
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July 17, 2008 04:04 PM EDT --
We cannot kill or capture our way to victory .
-- U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, issuing a stark warning against U.S. overreliance on military responses, to the detriment of diplomacy: . . .
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July 18, 2008 04:52 PM EDT --
Nelson Mandela, the living symbol of victory over apartheid in South Africa and a move to peacefully rebuild that nation was born 17 July 1918 -- today he is 90 years old.
Mandela beams at grandchildren's . . .
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August 03, 2008 05:48 PM EDT --
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, born December 11, 1918, died today (August 3, 2008) of a stroke. He was 89 years old.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, Solzhenitsyn made the world aware . . .
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September 20, 2008 07:09 PM EDT --
The Shack , by William P. Young, is that rare book that challenges, questions, entertains, saddens, and delights ... all at the same time. The second dedication (after the author's wife) reads, . . .
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August 07, 2009 01:46 PM EDT --
Jim Wallis, Executive Director of Sojourners , contributes to a blog entitled " God's Politics ". He has presented a "call to reason" (my words) on that blog:
Truth-telling and Responsibility . . .
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April 23, 2008 03:37 PM EDT --
A friend, a retired colonel, sent me a link to this short Dean Kamen talk today. Dean, as you may know, is the designer of the Segway. In this video, he demonstrates the stages of development completed . . .
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June 06, 2008 09:45 AM EDT --
Now that we have presumptive nominees for all major parties to the US November Election, let's take a moment away from the beauty contest of the campaign and look at what we want and need in the next . . .
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June 12, 2008 03:05 PM EDT --
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun.
To lick your wounds,
to smack your lips over grievances long past,
to roll over . . .
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June 12, 2008 12:54 PM EDT --
Oftentimes people email me jokes. Occasionally, however, they bless me with a deep thought ...
Cherokee Wisdom
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside . . .
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June 18, 2008 02:17 PM EDT --
The Following Article appeared on France24 today. It has been reported in other sources as well, but I am providing this link as there is a video option as well:
Hamas confirms truce with Israel . . .
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June 09, 2008 07:43 PM EDT --
Yesterday, a friend and I were talking about times alone, and times with others. The context of the discussion was growing relationships ... how to recognize when the bonds of wholeness exist and when . . .
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June 12, 2008 11:02 AM EDT --
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
-- Bertrand Russell
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June 07, 2008 04:46 PM EDT --
Most of us know of Einstein's e=mc2. Some know of his predisposition to antics. Less know, however, of his work on behalf of peace, particularly between the US and USSR.
While reading today, I . . .
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