I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. — Rudyard Kipling One backstory behind the Kipling poem from which this quotation comes is that Kipling wrote it about his daughter, Elsie. She was such an inquisitive child that…
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We’ve all heard sayings like this one: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Maybe you have also heard some of the sayings that put a twist on the matter—sayings such as “Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure gives you a better bargaining position.” The truth is, there are a lot of important things in life that…
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On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan and three of his aides were shot and wounded by a mentally disturbed man trying to impress a popular American actress. The assassination attempt set off waves of fear and uncertainty throughout the nation—indeed, throughout the world—as other government leaders scrambled to learn about the president’s condition and…
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Faith is not a single event. It’s a process, a journey. While the old saying is true that a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, the journey doesn’t end after the first step. My wife and I learned this lesson when we hiked one of the popular trails in the Smoky Mountains…
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