EUTHANASIA
EUTHANASIA
This downward slide was explained dramatically by Dr. Leo Alexander in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, written in 1949. Dr. ...
EVADE
EVADE
While pursuing a story about equivocation in high office, I was told, "He gave an if-by-whiskey speech." My source, asked about his curious compound...
EVANGELISM
EVANGELISM
(see also WITNESS)
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EVIDENCE
EVIDENCE
A young American engineer was sent to Ireland by his company to work in a new electronics plant. It was a two-year assignment that he had accepte...
EVIL
EVIL
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
Pogo.
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EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION
Humans arose, rather, as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and...
EXACTNESS
EXACTNESS
(see also PRECISE)
Alexander Woollcott: In matters of speech, it's not elegance that interest me but exactness. Precision. Surgical p...
EXAGGERATION
EXAGGERATION
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EXAMINATION
EXAMINATION
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EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain.
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EXCELLENCE
EXCELLENCE
Serious critics sometimes argue that the standards in art are always relative, but all artistic masterpieces give them the lie.
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EXCUSES
EXCUSES
Whoever wants to be judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
Hebbel.
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EXERCISE
EXERCISE
Percentage of American's who own running shoes but don't run: 87%
Charis Conn, Ed., What Counts: The Complete Harper...
EXHAUSTION
EXHAUSTION
If I had to do it all over again, I'd be too tired.
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EXPECTATION
EXPECTATION
Stephen Hawking is an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and perhaps the most intelligent man on earth. He has advanced the general theor...
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.
Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School.
EXPERT
EXPERT
While she was enjoying a transatlantic ocean trip, Billie Burke, the famous actress, noticed that a gentleman at the next table was suffering from ...
EXPIATION
EXPIATION
The word expiation begins with the prefix ex, which means "out of" or "from." Expiation means to remove something. In biblical theology it has t...
EXPLANATIONS
EXPLANATIONS
When my son was five years old, I showed him around my grandfather's farm, pointing out the hard work and skills it once took to farm th...
EXPOSED
EXPOSED
William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet, was interviewing a man who was seeking a diploma...