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Redmond — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:49:47 GMT

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Did Columbus Bring Syphilis.....

Redmond — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:17:31 GMT

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=did-columbus-bring-syphilis-to-europe&ec=su_columbus

albert einstein

Redmond — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:14:18 GMT

* "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." * "Imagination is more important than knowledge." * "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." * "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." * "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." * "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." * "The only real valuable thing is intuition." * "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself." * "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice." * "God is subtle but he is not malicious." * "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." * "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." * "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." * "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." * "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." * "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." * "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." * "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." * "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." * "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it." * "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." * "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." * "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically." * "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." * "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." * "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." * "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." * "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." * "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." * "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." * "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." * "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity." * "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." * "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." * "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." * "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." * "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." * "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep." * "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead." * "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves." * "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!" * "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" * "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." * "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever." * "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." * "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." * "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." * "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." * "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." * "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." * "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." * "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year." * "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." * "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." * "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." * "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton) Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

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Redmond — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:43:47 GMT

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." --- - Dr. Martin Luther King, jr."

How to say I Love You in different languages

Redmond — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:13:02 GMT

Afrikaans - Ek Het Jou Liefe Afrikaans - Ek Is Lief Vir Jou Albanian - Te dua Alsacien - Ich Hoan Dich Gear Amharic - Afekrishalehou Arabic - Ana Behibak (To Male) Arabic - Ana Behibek (To Female) Armenian - Yes kez si'rumem Assamese - Moi Tomak Bhal Pau Basc - Nere Maitea Basque - Maite zaitut Batak - Holong Rohangku Di Ho Bavarian - I Mog Di Narrisch Gern Bengali - Ami Tomay Bhalobashi Berber - Lakh Tirikh Bicol - Namumutan Ta Ka Bolivian Quechua - Qanta Munani Bosnian - Volim te Bulgarian - Obicham Te Burmese - Chit Pa De Cambodian - Bong Serlow lang own (Man to Woman) Cambodian - Own serlow lang bong (Woman to Man) Canadian French - Sh'teme (Spoken, Sounds Like This) Cantonese - Ngo Oi Ney Catalan - T'estim Molt Cebuano - Gihigugma Ko Ikaw. Cheyenne - Néméhotâtse Chickasaw - Chiholloli (First "I" Nasalized) Chinese - Wo Ai Ni Corsican - Ti Tengu Cara (To Female) Corsican - Ti Tengu Caru (To Male) Creole - Mi aime jou Croatian - Volim Te Czech - Miluji Te Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig Dutch - Ik Hou Van Jou Ecuador Quechua - Canda Munani Eskimo - Nagligivaget Esperanto - Mi Amas Vin Estonian - Mina Armastan Sind Farsi - Tora dost daram Filipino - Mahal Kita Finnish - Minä Rakastan Sinua Flemish - Ik Zie Oe Geerne French - Je T'aime Friesian - Ik Hald Fan Dei Gaelic - Ta Gra Agam Ort Galego (Galicia) - Querote (Or) Amote Galician - Querote German - Ich Liebe Dich Greek - S' Agapo Gujarati - Hoon tane pyar karoochhoon! Hausa - Ina Sonki Hawaiian - Aloha I´a Au Oe Hebrew - Ani Ohev Otach (Male To Female) Hebrew - Ani Ohevet Otcha (Female To Male) Hindi - Main Tumse Pyar Karta Hoon Hokkien - Wa Ai Lu Hopi - Nu' Umi Unangwa'ta Hungarian - Szeretlek Icelandic - Eg Elska Thig Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu Irish - Taim I' Ngra Leat Italian - Ti amo Japanese - Kimi O Ai Shiteru Javanese - Kulo Tresno Kannada - Naanu Ninnanu Preethisuthene Kiswahili - Nakupenda Klingon - Qabang Korean - Dangsineul Saranghae Kurdish - Ez Te Hezdikhem Lao - Koi Muk Jao Latin - Te Amo Latvian - Es tevi milu Lingala - Nalingi Yo Lisbon Lingo - Gramo - Te Bue', Chavalinha Lithuanian - Aš Tave Myliu Lojban - Mi Do Prami Luo - Aheri Macedonian - Sakam Te! Madrid Lingo - Me Molas, Tronca Malay - Saya Cintamu Malay/Indonesian - Aku Sayang Enkow Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikkunnu Malaysian - Saya cintamu Mandarin - Wo Ai Ni Marathi - Me Tujhashi Prem Karto (Male To Female) Marathi - Me Tujhashi Prem Karte (Female To Male) Marshallese - Yokwe Yuk Mohawk - Konoronhkwa Navaho - Ayor Anosh'ni Ndebele - Niyakutanda Nepali - Ma Timilai Maya Garchu Norwegian - Eg Elskar Deg (Nynorsk) Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg (Bokmaal) Osetian - Aez Dae Warzyn Persian - Tora Dost Daram Pig Latin - Iyay ovlay ooyay Polish - Kocham Cie Portuguese - Eu Amo - te Portuguese (Brazilian) - Eu Te Amo Punjabi - Mai Taunu Pyar Karda Romanian - Te Iubesc Russian - Ya tyebya lyublyu Sanskrit - Twayi snihyaami Scot Gaelic - Tha Gra\Dh Agam Ort Serbian - Volim te Serbocroatian - Volim Te Sesotho - Kiyahurata Shona - Ndinokuda Sinhalese - Mama Oyata Adarei Sioux - Techihhila Slovak - Lubim Ta Slovenian - Ljubim te Spanish - Te amo/Te quiero Srilankan - Mama Oyata Arderyi Swahili - Naku Penda (followed by the person's name) Swedish - Jag älskar dig Swiss - German - Ch'ha Di Ga"Rn Syrian/Lebanes - Bhebbek (To A Female) Syrian/Lebanes - Bhebbak (To A Male) Tagalog - Mahal Kita Tahitian - Ua Here Vau la Oe Tamil - Naan Unnai Kathalikkiren Tcheque - Miluji Te' Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu Thai - Phom Rak Khun (Male to Female) Thai - Ch'an Rak Khun (Female to Male) Tunisian - Ha Eh Bak Turkish - Seni seviyorum Ukrainian - Ya tebe kokhayu Urdu - Main tumse muhabbat karta hoon Vietnamese - Em Ye'U Anh (Female to Male) Vietnamese - Anh Ye'U Em (Male to Female) Vlaams - Ik Hue Van Ye Vulcan - Wani Ra Yana Ro Aisha Welsh - Rwy'n Dy Garu Di. Yiddish - Kh'hob dikh lib Yugoslavian - Ya Te Volim Zulu - Ngiyakuthanda Zuni - Tom Ho' Ichema

The following three-word phrases can enrich every relationship. These are just three little But Very Powerful words:

Redmond — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:25:13 GMT

I'll Be There If you have ever had to call a friend in the middle of the night, to take a sick child to hospital, or when your car has broken down some miles from home, you will know how good it feels to hear the phrase " I'll be there. " Being there for another person is the greatest gift we can give. When we're truly present for other people, important things happen to them & us. We are renewed in love and friendship. We are restored emotionally and spiritually. Being there is at the very core of civility. I Miss You Perhaps more marriages could be saved & strengthened if couples simply & sincerely say to each other "I miss you." This powerful affirmation tells partners they are wanted, needed, desired & loved. Consider how ecstatic you would feel, if you received an unexpected phone call from your spouse in the middle of your workday, just to say "I miss you." I Respect You / I Trust You Respect and trust is another way of showing love. Its conveys the feeling that another person is a true equal. If you talk to your children as if they were adults you will strengthen the bonds & become close friends. This applies to all interpersonal relationships Maybe You're Right This phrase is highly effective in diffusing an argument and restoring frayed emotions. The flip side to "maybe you're right" is the humility of admitting maybe "I'm wrong". Let's face it. When you have a heated argument with someone, all you do is cement the other person's point of view. They, or you, will not change their stance and you run the risk of seriously damaging the relationship between you. Saying "maybe you're right" can open the door to further explore the subject, in which you may then have the opportunity to get your view across in a more rational manner. Please Forgive Me Many broken relationships could be restored and healed if people would admit their mistakes and ask for forgiveness. All of us are vulnerable to faults and failures. A man should never be ashamed to own up that he has been in the wrong, which is saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. I Thank You Gratitude is an exquisite form of courtesy. People who enjoy the companionship of good, close friends are those who don't take daily courtesies for granted. They are quick to thank their friends for their many expressions of kindness. On the other hand, people whose circle of friends is severely constricted often do not have the attitude of gratitude. Count On Me A friend is one who walks in when others walk out. Loyalty is an essential ingredient for true friendship; it is the emotional glue that bonds people. Those that are rich in their relationships tend to be steady and true friends. When troubles come, a good friend is there indicating "you can count on me." Let Me Help The best of friends see a need and try to fill it. When they spot a hurt they do what they can to heal it. Without being asked, they pitch in and help. I Understand You People become closer and enjoy each other more if they feel the other person accepts and understands them. Letting your spouse know in so many little ways that you understand them, is one of the most powerful tools for healing relationship. This applies to any relationship. Go For It We are all unique individuals. Don't try to get your friends to conform to your ideals. Support them in pursuing their interests, no matter how weird they seem to you. Everyone has dreams, dreams that are unique to that person only. Support and encourage your friends to follow their dreams. Tell them to "go for it." I Love You Perhaps the most important three words that you can say. Telling someone that you truly love them satisfies a person's deepest emotional needs. The need to belong, to feel appreciated and to be wanted. Your spouse, your children, your friends and you, all need to hear those three little words "I love you."

Redmond — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:08:43 GMT

You don't stop laughing because you get old, you get old because you stop laughing...