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Govornor Bradford's
Govornor Bradford\'s Thanksgiving Proclamation Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abund...

BRAIN
BRAIN Watts of power used by the human brain when it's engaged in deep thought: 14; watts required to operate an I...

BREVITY
BREVITY Usually, by the time a person says, "Well, to make a long story short," it's too late.

BROKEN
BROKEN In his retirement, Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. Because Jefferson trusted that students ...

BUDGET
BUDGET Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. B. Franklin.

BUILD
BUILD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POEMS A Build...

BUREAUCRACY
BUREAUCRACY The Swedish navy felt the need to construct a huge battleship, with 64 guns set in two decks, for its fleet...

BUSINESS
BUSINESS Upward Mobility Rule: don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted. ...

BURNOUT
BURNOUT (see also WORKAHOLIC) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright once told of an incident that may have seemed insignif...

BUSY
BUSY Beware of the barrenness of a busy life. ----------------------------------------------------...

CALLING
CALLING In the eleventh century, King Henry III of Bavaria grew tired of court life and the pressures of being a monarc...

CALLOUSNESS
CALLOUSNESS If you live in a graveyard too long you stop crying when someone dies. Traditional.

CALM
CALM Here is an instruction on how to react to hungry pythons, as given to Peace Corpsmen serving in Brazil -- "Remembe...

CALVINISM
CALVINISM When a Calvinist says that all things happen according to the predestination of God, he speaks the truth, and...

CARELESSNESS
CARELESSNESS For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the r...

CARNAL
CARNAL What is carnality? According to the Greek dictionary, it means to have the nature and characteristics of the fle...

CAUGHT
CAUGHT Robert Wood Johnson, the former chairman of Johnson & Johnson, was known to be a terror when he inspected his pl...

CAUTION
CAUTION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POEMS Oppor...

CELEBRATION
CELEBRATION Author Leo Buscaglia tells this story about his mother and their "misery dinner." It was the night after hi...

CERTAINTY
CERTAINTY When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not h...