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Following Fitzgerald: The Iceberg: A Story by Zelda Fitzgerald : In 1918, Zelda Sayre, later Zelda Fitzgerald, won a prize for this story, w...

Vivacious means "full of life," it can be traced back to the Latin verb "vivere," meaning "to live." The ...

Midriff.  The "riff" in "midriff" comes from Old English "hrif" ("belly, womb"). "Hrif" ...

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Hel...

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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. PeacePilgrim

“Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.” Robert Lindner

Charles Dickens: On this day in history in 1859, Charles Dickens pu... : On this day in history in 1859, Charles Dickens published the final...

enormity \ih-NOR-muh-tee\  noun.  1:        great wickedness  2:        an outrageous or immoral act or offense  3 :       very lar...

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.   Swami  Viv...

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.  George Wald.

I have been sitting at this desk for hours, staring into the darkened shelves of books. I love their presence, the way they honor the wood ...

1.Get enough food to eat, and eat it. 2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet, and sleep there. 3.Reduce intell...

"My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and d...

                                                                   The pig in question