"I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes."
- Jean Vanier
Inspiration
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While I was employed by a private corporation and assigned to the space-shuttle program, my job included ordering supplies.
One of the engineers asked me to get a new dictionary for him. The request form said, "State reason this item is needed," so I asked him why he wanted one.
I expected his answer would be "My old copy is lost" or "The cover is falling off." Instead he replied, "My edition defines spaceship as an 'imaginary aircraft.'"
He got his new dictionary.
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A man goes to consult Dr. Mike Wilson, the most expensive doctor in the city about his medical problem.
After the visit the man asks, "How much do I owe you?"
"My fee is five hundred dollars," replies Dr. Wilson.
"Five hundred dollars? That's impossible. No one charges that much!"
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- G. K. Chesterton
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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