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SNOW !!!! I miss you so............
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.
Dalai Lama
Toronto, Canada
This is the place I love. People are very frendly, and when you are down (ski or skate) they offer their talent until you learn. During winter, one can see skiing and skating people of all ages along the frozen lakes. We do not worry about going around, though, because malls and entertainment centers are located underground with subways and buses services available 24 hours a day.
A WOMAN OF STRENGTH
A strong woman works out every day to keep her body in shape ...
but a woman of strength kneels in prayer to keep her soul in shape...
A strong woman isn't afraid of anything ...
but a woman of strength shows courage in the midst of her fear...
A strong woman won't let anyone get the best of her ...
but a woman of strength gives the best of her to everyone...
A strong woman makes mistakes and avoids the same in the future...
a woman of strength realizes life's mistakes can also be God's blessings and capitalizes on them...
A strong woman walks sure footedly ...
but a woman of strength knows God will catch her when she falls...
A strong woman wears the look of confidence on her face ...
but a woman of strength wears grace...
A strong woman has faith that she is strong enough for the journey ...
but a woman of strength has faith that it is in the journey that she will become strong...
Subject: FW: Screwy Language?
This little treatise on the lovely language we share is only for the
linguist, original author unknown.
Peruse at your leisure, English lovers. Reasons why the English
language is so hard to learn.
1. The bandage was wound around the wound
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present
8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes
10. I did not object to the object
11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid
12. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row
13. They were too close to the door to close it
14. The buck does funny things when the does are present
15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into the sewer line
16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail
18. After a number of injections my jaw got number
19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear
20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language There's no egg in eggplant
nor ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are
meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find
that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea
pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers
write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't
Ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn t the plural of booth beeth?
or, one goose, 2 geese, so one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices.
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If
you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what
do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for
the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise
guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn
up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm
goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects
the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why,
when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible.
ENGLISH.....crazy language
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes
The one fowl is goose, but two are called geese.
Yet the plural of moose, should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest of mice.
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot, and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose.
When we say brother, we say brethren.
But though we may say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him,
But imagine the feminine, she, shis, and shim.
So, English I fancy you will agree
Is the craziest language that you ever did see. <>
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