This issue of Q9 was published on September 18, 2001
Quotes, Thoughts & Inspiration
Practical, yet refreshing, in 1,200 words today!
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I received overwhelming positive feedback
for yesterday's Q9, but also a couple of
emails from people who were not happy with
the Gordon Sinclair quote.
My only regrets with his quote are that
I was not able to send the whole thing to
Q9 (too long), and that I forgot to print
the date of Gordon Sinclair's broadcast
-- 1973. I apologize for not including the
date, as it might have helped people handle
the full weight of its many sad truths.
But I also received the following email
from an AAAmaZine subscriber who had ALL
the information I neglected in Q9, and
therefore no excuse for his remarks:
>Excuse me, but before the Americans >decided to join, Brittain had been >at war with Germany and the likes >for 4 years already... >It took the Americans long enough >to decide weather to join or not. >I am British, We owe the Yanks nothing. >We would have fought and wone the war >by ourselves if it came to it.To which I responded (in part) that I am
a Canadian myself, that my father was a
Brit (born in Wolverhampton) and my
mother's parents were from Jersey, C.I.
BUT that all my father EVER said about
WWII was that the outcome was "*VERY* close",
and that was WITH America's involvement!!!
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(1)
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
- A. J. Muste
(2)
When you walk to the edge
of all the light you have
And you take the first step into
the darkness of the unknown
You must believe that
one of two things will happen
There will be something solid
for you to stand upon
or you will be
taught to fly
- Patrick Overton
(3)
Pictures of America. Suitable as a background for your
computer. I use the "center" attribute, and a black
background, but you can also use "stretch" to fill your
screen with any size image, if the image width to height
ratio is about 4 to 3 [e.g. 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768]:
Very Large, five images, from space:
http://www.spaceimaging.com/newsroom/attack_gallery.htm
Large [1024 by 768 pixels]:
http://www.deskpicture.com/DPs/Places/NewYorkBoats.jpg
Medium, New York, New York in Vegas [743 x 557 pixels]:
http://www.kestan.com/travel/lasvegas/lasvegas.htm
Medium, blue colors, daytime [700 x 457 pixels]:
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/corps/images/corp2238.jpg
Small, at night [640 x 422 pixels]:
http://www.lambrecht.de/boston_pics/NYC/New_York_Ufer.jpg
Small, night, blue tones [600 x 484 pixels]:
http://www.manhattancc.org/montaine/images/nyc.jpg
Small, night, bronze colors [643 x 427 pixels]:
http://www.iccmonline.com/NY%20Skyline.JPG
Small, skyline, Empire State Building [512 x 300 pixels]:
http://corporaterealtyinc.com/images/scans/weeskyda.jpg
Smaller, black & white [360 x 185 pixels]:
http://www.plumbingfoundation.org/contact/skyline.gif
*** To set any of these as your Windows wallpaper/background
*** right-click on the image and click "Set as Wallpaper"
(4)
Resilient, adj.: See "American Spirit".
(5)
We must accept life for what it actually is -- a challenge
to our quality without which we should never know of what
stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
- Ida R. Wylie
(6)
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are
to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin
with the children.
- Mohandas Gandhi
(7)
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding,
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
(8)
I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing
I was climbing as high as I KNEW I could and then letting go.
On my next try I climbed with no thought of failure and
reached the top. We cannot know what we can do in advance.
The only way to find out is to go all-out trying, thinking
only of success.
- Royal Robbins, legendary climber
http://www.gorp.com/gorp/interact/guests/royal.htm
That Gorp link broke some time back. Here is the back story on Gorp.
(9)
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult
for each other?
- George Eliot
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