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RISK
RISK "One of the reasons why mature people stop growing and learning," says John Gardner, "is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."

RIVALRY
RIVALRY July, the seventh month, was named after Julius Caesar. Not to be outdone, the Emperor Augustus called the following month August after himself. S...

ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL
ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL Anxious to get home after a week long business trip in California, I waited for my flight in the crowded boarding area. Suddenly the...

ROCK AND ROLL
ROCK AND ROLL It helps to think of rock music as youth's way of getting even for spinach. Robert Orben. ----------...

ROGERS, Will
ROGERS, Will The Best of Will Rogers Will Rogers was many things -- cowboy, part Cherokee Indian, entertainer and tart observer of the Americ...

ROUSSEAU
ROUSSEAU Consider Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who wrote in 1762 the classic treatise on freedom, The Social Contract, with its familiar opening line: "Man was ...

ROUTINE
ROUTINE "The hardest thing about milking cows," observed a farmer, " is that they never stay milked." Bits & Pieces, Aug...

RULES
RULES 1. Never have more children than you have car windows. 2. Never loan your car to someone to whom you have given birth. 3. ...

RUSHMORE, mount
RUSHMORE, mount "American history shall march along that skyline," announced Gutzon Borglum in 1924, gazing at the Black Hills of South Dakota. In 1927 Bo...

RUT
RUT Openness is essentially the willingness to grow, a distaste for ruts, eagerly standing on top-toe for a better view of what tomorrow brings. A man onc...

SABBATH
SABBATH One man challenged another to an all-day wood chopping contest. The challenger worked very hard, stopping only for a brief lunch break. The other ...

SACRIFICE
SACRIFICE It is said that Cyrus, the founder of the Persian Empire, once had captured a prince and his family. When they came before him, the monarch ask...

SAFETY
SAFETY Some things that appear dangerous are actually much less hazardous than their safer-looking alternative. Commercial airline travel, for instance, i...

SALT
SALT Sodium is an extremely active element found naturally only in combined form; it always links itself to another element. Chlorine, on the other hand, ...

PROPITIATION
PROPITIATION The word expiation begins with the prefix ex, which means "out of" or "from." Expiation means to remove something. In biblical theology it ha...

PROPOSAL, marriage
PROPOSAL, marriage During his courtship with a young woman named Julia Dent, Ulysses S. Grant once took her out for a buggy ride. Coming to a flooded cree...

PROSPERITY
PROSPERITY I'll say this for adversity--people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. Kin Hu...

PROTECTION
PROTECTION The early American Indians had a unique practice of training young braves. On the night of a boy's thirteenth birthday, after learning hun...

PROVERB
PROVERB 1. Fix something right away or it will get worse. 2. An overabundance of culinary help is detrimental to the pot's contents.

PROVIDENCE OF GOD
PROVIDENCE OF GOD John Wesley\'s father, Samuel, was a dedicated pastor, but there were those in his parish who did not like him. On February 9, 1709...