Post 4.5

Here's your daily dose:

1. Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
2. Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
3. The name Christians was first given at Antioch (Acts 11:26) to those who accept the teachings of Christ. There is no question of its being restricted to those who profited by the teaching as much as they should have. There is no question of its being extended to those who, in some refined inward fashion, were far closer to the spirit of Christ than the less satisfactory of the disciples. The question is not a theological or moral one. It is only a question of using words so that we can all understand what is being said. When a man who accepts the common doctrines of Christianity lives unworthily of them, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say that he is not a Christian.
4. If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
5. Baby...you got real ugly.

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Post 4.4

Tags for previous weeks should be up later today. Here's your daily dose:

1. Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.
2. I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He couldn't lie. I can, but I won't.
3. One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that, however angry he gets, he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage the next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it.
4. A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough - but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character, we cannot alter its inevitability.
5. Klaatu verata nuhuhuhuhu...(cough)

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Post 4.3

My apologies on the lateness of this post. I was interviewing today at the Engineering Career Fair...if you want to call it that. I'll talk with some of you about it later, if you're interested. Here's your daily dose:

1. Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that allow their children to come back home.
2. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
3. If you are a nice person - if virtue comes easily to you-beware! Much is expected from those to whom much is given. If you mistake for your own merits what are really God's gifts to you through nature, and if you are contented with simply being nice, you are still a rebel: and all those gifts will only make your fall more terrible, your corruption more complicated, your bad example more disastrous. The Devil was an archangel once; his natural gifts were as far above yours as yours are above those of a chimpanzee.
4. Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
5. This is my BOOMSTICK!! 12-gauge, double-barrel Remington...S-Mart's top of the line. You'll find it in the sporting goods department. That's right. This baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart...shop S-Mart. YOU GOT THAT?

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Post 4.2

As requested by Dave, I will tag each old post as I did those of the first week. Today---or at least this morning---is a bit hectic. Hopefully I'll get to it by this evening. Here's your daily dose:

1. My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
2. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
3. There is no need to be worried about facetious people who try the make the Christian hope of heaven seem ridiculous by saying that they do not want to, 'spend eternity playing harps.' The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they ought not talk about them.
4. Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
5. First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow.

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Post 4.1

Frankly, I can't believe I'm still at this. But I feel compelled to give the public what they want...or at least what they've never said they don't want. Silence equals consent under the law :) Here's your daily dose:

1. All parents make mistakes. Good parents are those who choose their mistakes carefully.
2. Man is the only animal that blushes.
3. Do I think well of myself...think myself a nice chap? Well, I'm afraid I sometimes do, and those are no doubt my worst moments.
4. I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
5. Good...bad...I'm the guy with the gun.

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