Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- The Dalai Lama

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;
wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;
we spend more, but have less;
we buy more, but enjoy it less.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life;
We've added years to life, not life to years.

We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the neighbour.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space;
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;
We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.

We have higher incomes, but lower morals;
We've become long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are the times of tall men, and short character;
steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;
More leisure, but less fun;
More kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are the days of two incomes, and more divorce;
of fancier houses, but broken homes."

It is a time when there is too much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom;
A time when technology can bring this letter to you,
and a time when you can choose either to make a difference,
or just hit delete.

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One day a guy died and found himself in hell. As he was wallowing in despair, he had his first meeting with a demon.
The demon asked, "Why so glum?"
The guy responded, "What do you think? I'm in hell!"

"Hell's not so bad," the demon said. "We actually have a lot of fun down here. You a drinking man?"
"Sure," the man said, "I love to drink."
"Well you're gonna love Mondays then. On Mondays all we do is drink. Whiskey, tequila, Guinness, wine coolers, diet Tab and Fresca. We drink till we throw up and then we drink some more!"
The guy is astounded. "Damn, that sounds great."

"You a smoker?" the demon asked.
"You better believe it!"
"You're gonna love Tuesdays. We get the finest cigars from all over the world and smoke our lungs out. If you get cancer, no biggie. You're already dead, remember?"
"Wow, the guy said, "that's awesome!"

The demon continued. "I bet you like to gamble."
"Why yes, as a matter of fact I do."
"Wednesdays you can gamble all you want. Craps, blackjack, roulette, poker, slots, whatever. If you go bankrupt, well, you're dead anyhow. You into drugs?"

The guy said, "Are you kidding? I love drugs! You don't mean . . ."
"That's right! Thursday is drug day. Help yourself to a great big bowl of crack, or smack. Smoke a doobie the size of a submarine. You can do all the drugs you want, you're dead, who cares!"
"Wow, the guy said, starting to feel better about his situation, "I never realized Hell was such a cool place!"

The demon said, "You gay?"
"No."
"Ooooh, you're gonna hate Fridays."

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A squall is seen in the Antarctic Ocean in this undated handout photo. The Australian government announced Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002 that it was declaring a massive swathe of Australia's remote sub-Antarctic waters a fully protected marine reserve. The Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve will cover 6.5-million hectares (16 million acres) - which is equal to about twice the size of Switzerland - in what the government said would be the world's largest protected marine area. (AP Photo/Australian Antarctic Division, HO)

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Shunpei Yamazaki, president of Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL), shows off a glass integrated with 8-bit central processing unit (CPU) at an unveiling in Tokyo October 22, 2002. Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays, and SEL jointly developed the display with microprocessor circuitry applied directly to a glass, enabling the screen to function like a computer. It is the world's first step toward the development of futuristic ultra-thin 'sheet computers,' and 'sheet televisions,' they said. (Toshiyuki Aizawa/Reuters)

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A two-headed 'Macroprotodon Cucullatus' snake is displayed after it was found by workers in a hotel garden on the Mediterrannean island of Palma de Mallorca, October 17, 2002. This kind of snake reaches a length of 60-70 centimeters and its bite is not lethal for human beings. REUTERS/Dani Cardona

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Russian artist Oleg Kulik installs the wax figure of the Russian tennis star Anna Kournikova (news - web sites) at his new exhibition project in Moscow, October 19, 2002. Kulik plans soon to inhabit his museum by figures of strong and beautiful women like Bjork and Madonna (news - web sites) in unexpected poses. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin