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To: undi I d-r ci ients: Bcc: Fran: Will Ford Sent Thur 4/4/2013 10:49:16 AM Subject: Apr 4th tidbits & quotes "If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated." - Christopher Hitchens, Mortality "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." - Ernest Hemingway "Worry affects circulation, the heart, and the glands. the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the heart. I have never known a man „ho die from overwork, but many who died from doubt." - Charles Horace Mayo "So you're the one." - Charlie Blackwood, Top Gun "That is the largest accumulation of incompetent people that I know of any place in the world." - Boone Pickens, regarding Washington, DC Ponce de Leon was the first to explore the Florida coast. He famously searched for the Fountain of Youth. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen Splitting the baby - httn://en.wikinedia.ore/wiki/Judement of Solomon - The story is recounted in the Bible, I Kings 3:16-28. Two young women who lived in the same house and who both had an infant son came to King Solomon for a judgement. One of the women claimed that the other, after accidentally smothering her own son while sleeping, had exchanged the two children to make it appear that the living child was hers. The other woman denied this and so both women claimed to be the mother of the living son and said that the dead boy belonged to the other. After some deliberation, King Solomon called for a sword to be brought before him. He declared that there was only one fair solution: the live son must be split in two, each woman receiving half of the child. The liar, in her bitter jealousy, exclaimed, "It shall be neither mine nor yours—divide it!" However, upon hearing this terrible verdict, the boy's true mother cried out, "Oh Lord, give the baby to her, just don't kill him!" The king gave the baby to the real mother. King Solomon's judgement became known throughout all of Israel and was considered an example of profound wisdom. EFTA_R1_00801169 EFTA02144549