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SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE
Mon, December 10, 2007 - 11:00 PM
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OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE DECEMBER 10, 2007 OSLO, NORWAY Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen. I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it. Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred... read more
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
Mon, November 19, 2007 - 5:25 PM
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He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was... read more
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
Mon, November 19, 2007 - 2:04 PM
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When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without a... read more
Someday perhaps even I may realize the true breadth of this tapestry...
Thu, November 15, 2007 - 1:29 PM
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Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakend broth What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare ... read more
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