-- By John Di Lemme

I know your thinking... 'Okay, John, 5+5 does not equal 5.'  So, please let me
explain.

-- By Nido R. Qubein

It's probably true that most people who work with us will never care as deeply as we do about building our business and serving our clients. If they did, they'd probably be working for themselves.

A True Story — by Ronda Rich Funny, the things you learn when you tuck manners away and allow yourself to eavesdrop. Mary Noble and I slid into the ancient red leather and steel booth of a diner in Birmingham and placed our breakfast order. As we poured cream into …

-- By Jennifer HarperÔÇ¿ - THE WASHINGTON TIMESÔÇ¿ - March 16, 2006

Gentlemen, eat your chili peppers. Habanero, jalapeno, Scotch bonnet --
those hot but tasty varieties of the capsicum frutescens have multiple
health benefits -- including the ability to drive prostate cancer cells to
kill themselves, researchers announced yesterday.
 
According to a team from the University of California at Los Angeles and
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the hot stuff in peppers -- capsaicin -- caused

You don't actually have to take the quiz. Just read this straight through and you'll get the point...

Here's the first quiz:

1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.

2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.

3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.

4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize.

5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.

-- Author Unknown

It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. It was a dry season that would bankrupt several farmers before it was through.

-- Author Unknown

It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was working on his future, and nothing could stop him.

-- Author Unknown

"It is not important how old you are;
it is how you feel, how you think,
and what you do that is important." -- Catherine Pulsifer

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?" -- Satchel Paige,

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature. But beautiful old people are works of art." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.” -- General Douglas MacArthur

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” -- Mark Twain

NAIROBI (AFP) – A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa, officials said. The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen, and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was …