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OBEDIENCE
OBEDIENCE Neil Marten, a member of the British Parliament, was once giving a group of his constituents a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament. During t...

OBESITY
OBESITY Half of Americans in a recent poll said they or their family members have suffered from depression, 46% considered it a health problem, and 43% sa...

OBJECTION
OBJECTION Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. Samuel Johnson.

OBJECTIVE
OBJECTIVE Flight 401 It was Flight 401 bound for Miami from New York City with a load of holiday passengers. As the huge aircraft approached ...

OBLIVIOUS
OBLIVIOUS In December 1903, after many attempts, the Wright brothers were successful in getting their "flying machine" off the ground. Thrilled, they tele...

OBSTACLE
OBSTACLE Michael A. Guido of Metter, Georgia, columnist of several newspapers writes: "An artist in Mexico lost his right hand while working...

Office
Office How To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity In The Workplace... 1. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

OLD AGE
OLD AGE George Burns once said, "Tennis is a game for young people. Until age 25, you can play singles. From there until age 35, you should play doubles. ...

OMISSION
OMISSION His career as a private detective supplied novelist Dashiell Hammett with much of the material used in his books. On one occasion, the chief of p...

OMNIPOTENCE
OMNIPOTENCE Does omnipotence mean that God can do literally anything? No, that is not the meaning. There are many things God cannot do. He cannot do what ...

ONE ANOTHER
ONE ANOTHER People need people. Laurie was about three when one night she requested my aid in getting undressed. I was downstairs and she was upstairs, an...

ONWARD Christian Soldiers
ONWARD Christian Soldiers Backward Christian Soldiers 1. Backward Christian soldiers, Fleeing from the fight, With ...

OPEN MIND
OPEN MIND An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or Practical rea...

OPPORTUNITY
OPPORTUNITY The Irish Potato Famine (1846-1851) resulted in a 30 percent drop in the population of the west of Ireland. The prolonged suffering of the Iri...

OPTIMISM
OPTIMISM I read about a schoolboy who brought home his report card. It was heavy with poor grades. "What have you to say about this?" asked his father. "O...

ORDERLINESS
ORDERLINESS Young Richard Sears was a railroad agent in Redwood, Minnesota when he discovered he could order watches from the manufacturer, then reship th...

ORDINARY
ORDINARY Chinese legend: A group of elderly, cultured gentlemen met often to exchange wisdom and drink tea. Each host tried to find the fines...

ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZATION Historians have related the heartwarming story of Abdul Kassem Ismael, the scholarly grand-vizier of Persia in the tenth century, and his lib...

ORIGINALITY
ORIGINALITY Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is no...

ORIGINS
ORIGINS Sign at a roadside stand New Jersey: "Eggs/Produce/Chicken." Charles Mathis in Catholic Digest, quoted in Reader's...