“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.” - James Madison

You can avoid reality,

but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. — Ayn Rand

Former open-wheel racers Phil Hill, Adrián Fernández, and Mauricio Gugelmin share a birthday!

“If we are to reach real peace in the world … we shall have to begin with the children.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

Hard work gives life meaning. Everyone needs to work hard at something to feel good about themselves. Every job can be done well and every day has its satisfactions. – Osceola McCarty

English plural
according to George Carlin

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A box is singular, and the plural is boxes,
but the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. »→

“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.” – Jackie Joyner Kersee

“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.” - Philippians 4:13

The goal of every Christian ought to be to love more perfectly and ultimately to (go) to heaven. It cost Jesus his life to open the gates, and it will cost us the same.  If our goal is heaven, we need to have a plan to see that this happens.  I believe our immediate goal should be to live a holy life.  What a tragedy if we as Christians don’t become holy; holiness is what we have been created for.  And to be holy, to grow in our relationship with Christ, we must have a tangible plan. - Father Dave Pivonka, T.O.R.

“The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Junior

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Cassius Clay

“Knowledge is power, and power is the key to changing things.” – Jill Nelson

Is not this the fast that I choose:

to loose the bonds of wickedness,

to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house;

when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Happy birthday, Mom!

Arizona became the forty-eighth state in the U.S.A. on February 14, 1912.