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From: Will Ford < la> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Bee: "Ma <MIEla> Subject: Dec 3rd tidbits & quotes Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:44:33 +0000 A woodpecker can peck with a force as high as 1,200g's with each impact; equivalent to a human striking head against a wall at a speed of 25km (16mi) an hour each time. "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin If an infant becomes blind soon after they're born they will still almost always see images in their dreams, but infants born with blindness will most likely never have dreams with images. People who were born blind do still have very emotionally intense dreams which include hearing, smells, feeling and taste. "To lose patience is to lose the battle." - Mohandas K. Gandhi "Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes." - Zig Ziglar Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges "Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde "He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." - Thomas Carlyle "Hope is the dream of a waking man." - Aristotle "A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope." - Charles M. Schulz "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." — Epictetus EFTA00400425