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(Showing 11929 - 11949 of 12186 Results)Ass and the Mule, The
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A Muleteer set forth on a journey, driving before him an Ass and a Mule, both well laden. The Ass, a... (continued)
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Busy
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Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter ask for a job in a timber merchant, and he got it. The wag... (continued)
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Creating Opportunity
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An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonder... (continued)
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Jessie's Glove
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I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of conven... (continued)
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Just Do It
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Author Elbert Hubbard told the story of an incident during the Spanish-American War. It was imperati... (continued)
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Keep Marketing You
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Rejection and job searching go hand in hand. As a writer, I can tell you something about disappointm... (continued)
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Lesson from a Rainy Day
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August 26, 1999 is a day that many New Yorkers would probably like to forget. However, this New York... (continued)
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The Cleaning Lady
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During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious st... (continued)
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Three Stringed Violin
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On November 18th, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fish... (continued)
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Serious Business
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Let me take you back a couple years. Come with me as we relearn a lesson; one that has stuck with me... (continued)
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Flowers on the Bus
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We were a very motley crowd of people who took the bus every day that summer 33 years ago. During th... (continued)
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Small Victories
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Standing in the noisy cafeteria of the old school, I was watching the students line up for lunch. Ha... (continued)
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Cheering Me On
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I close my eyes as tight as they can go.
The lights go off, and my imagination switches on. Pictur... (continued)
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Acorns and Pumpkins
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An old poem describes a woman walking through a meadow, meditating on nature. While strolling about,... (continued)
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Always There
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Hello God, I called tonight
To talk a little while
I need a friend who'll listen
To my anxiety and t... (continued)
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Atheism
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To the disciples' delight the Master said he wanted a new shirt for his birthday. The finest cloth w... (continued)
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Barriers to God
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept "God." ... (continued)
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Be Still With God
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All day long I had been very busy; picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms and scrubbing floors. My gro... (continued)
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Black and Gold Boxes
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I have in my hands two boxes
Which God gave me to hold
He said, "Put all your sorrows in the black,
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Blessings Great and Small
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Here in the Arizona desert where shades of browns, grays, blacks and muted greens at first appear to... (continued)
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