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Some Thoughts From Others

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47.  Until August 7, 1953, congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio into the Union.

Bananas are actually herbs.  Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.

On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Shepard.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.

Flushable toilets were used in ancient Rome.

About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

The maximum weight for a golf ball is 1.62 oz.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.

Ohio is the only U.S. state without a rectangular flag.  Ohio's flag is a pennant.

A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness Beer.

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong"...Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed"...Storm Jameson

"Every man is guilty of the good he didn't do"...Voltaire

"Insist on yourself; never imitate...every great man is unique"...Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"...Aristotle

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend"...Henry David Thoreau

"Love all, trust a few.  Do wrong to none"...William Shakespeare

"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it"...Mark Twain

"All things are difficult before they are easy"...Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Shallow men believe in luck.  Strong men believe in cause and effect"...Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend"...Abraham Lincoln

"Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price"...Amelia Earhart

"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug"...John Lithgow

"If you don't risk anything you risk even more"...Erica Jong

"What's money?  A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do"...Bob Dylan

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us"...Helen Keller

"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was"...Irish Proverb

"Wish not so much to live long as to live well"...Benjamin Franklin

"Laughter gives us distance.  It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on"...Bob Newhart