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Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benjamin Franklin. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Don’t short-change your future.
Heather Waxman: Is
Your Spiritual Practice Stressing You Out?
What do you
want to create? Do you know?
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Pay it forward
is asking the beneficiary of a good deed to repay it to
others instead of to the original benefactor.
The concept is old, but the phrase may have
been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond: "You
don't pay love back; you pay it forward.", in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
We need only sail in natural waters.
Back in the days of sailing vessels, British and American sea captains
were faced with a peculiar problem. In crossing westward from England to
Boston, the voyage was much slower than when crossing eastward from Boston to
England. In fact, the westward crossing took an additional two weeks, which
represented considerable loss of time and energy. The owners of the vessels
carried their problem to Benjamin
Franklin, who was Deputy
Postmaster General at that time. Franklin, in turn, consulted a veteran sea
captain named Timothy Folger.
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