Pepeye:

Laughter is a marvellous answer to stress and pressure . .

it maybe time to let ur hair down. . if u ‘ve enough

i like

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"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will
vibrate in eternity."

-- Sean O'Casey

We must be like the apostles;

these men are not known for their policies,

procedures, theories or excuses but for their Acts

Did you know. . .

. . .that today 1996, 19 March
Nelson Mandela is granted a divorce from his wife. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, shown in the trial to have committed adultery, argued that the South African president should first submit to tribal meditation in order to save the marriage.

Today is Swallows Day? The swallows return to the San
Juan Capistrano Mission in California on Saint Joseph's Feast
Day. Traditionally, they leave on October 23. The swallows are
said to migrate annually to Goya, Argentina in October, and
return to their spring and summer home in San Juan Capistrano
each March.

1977, 19 March
Congolese president Major Marien Ngouabi is assassinated by a suicide commando during a failed military coup. Ex-president Alphonse Massemba-Débat is implicated in the coup and executed without trial one week later.

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Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Just because you make a mistake doesn't mean you are a
mistake."

-- Georgette Mosbacher

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh

-- Raymond Hitchcock

Did you know. . .

. . .that today 1966: Football's World Cup stolen
The football World Cup is stolen while on exhibition in London.

2003: US launches missiles against Saddam
American missiles hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, signalling the start of the US-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein.

1956, 20 March
Tunisia achieves independence.

1963, 20 March
Algerian president Ben Bella demands that France stops nuclear bomb tests in the Sahara.

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Today's Inspirational Quote:

"It is impossible to go through life without trust:
That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. "
Graham Greene

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Emile Chartier

Lonliness is better than bad company.
-Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani

Get excited about life, everybody wants to be cool, so many are tiptoeing quietly to the grave, become enthusiastic about life, seize the moments. Don’t wait for life to come to you . . go to it. Don’t be passive be Active

Did you know. . .

. . .that today 1925: Tennessee bans the teaching of evolution in schools; teacher John Scopes ignores the ban and is later prosecuted in the so-called "Monkey Trial."

1909, 23 March
Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kirmit depart New York on a 'scientific' expedition to Africa sponsored by the Smithsonian. (Over the course of a single year the Roosevelts shoot over 1,100 specimens.)

1943, 23 March - World War II: North Africa
General Patton's First Armored division defeats the German 10th Panzer division at El Guettar, Tunisia.

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Today's Inspirational Quote:

A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and a sympathetic woman gets him.”
Helen Roland

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
Publius Syrus

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.
-Imam Al-Ghazali

“Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember

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Bonus (Mystery Person of the Day)

Who am I? Born on this day in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1957, I became a filmmaker in college. My sometimes controversial films include Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, and Malcolm X.

Did you know. . .

. . . that today is National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day?
Enjoy this tasty combination of chocolate and fruit. Chocolate
is made from cocoa beans (a vegetable) and raisins are from
grapes (a fruit). And, we all know that fruits and vegetables
are good for you! ;-)

1958: Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll," enters the U.S. Army for a two-year term.

1989: Exxon Valdez creates oil slick disaster
An oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez, has run aground off the Alaskan coast, releasing crude oil into the sea. (spilling 260,000 barrels of crude oil)

1953: Queen Mary dies peacefully after illness
Her Majesty Queen Mary, the Queen's grandmother, dies in her sleep after a lengthy illness.

1882: German scientist Robert Koch announces that he has discovered the bacillus that causes tuberculosis.

Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does
- except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But
only if the grapes were good in the first place."

-- Abigail Van Buren

Don't ever Forget
'A CLOSED MOUTH IS A CLOSED DESTINY'

Did you know. . . .

. . .that today is National Pecan Day? In 1775 at his Mount
Vernon estate, George Washington planted pecan trees given to
him by Thomas Jefferson. Enjoy a pecan or two today!

1807: Britain abolishes the African slave trade
1960, 25 March
All black political parties are banned in South Africa.
1993, 25 March
President FW de Klerk admits that six South Africa built six nuclear bombs and states that they have since been dismantled.
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Today's Inspirational Quote:

"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should
never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us
to see our own way more clearly."

-- Brendan Francis

In ur search for key people that u can lead, u must look for F-A-T people.

Those who’re Faithful, Available and Teachable

Did you know. . .

. . .that today 1973: Stock Exchange admits women
Women are allowed on to the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time in the institution's 200 year history.

1902, 26 March
Cecil Rhodes, mining tycoon, Imperialist, and South African statesman has died.

1979: Israel and Egypt shake hands on peace deal
In a ceremony at the White House, Israel and Egypt end 30 years of war with a handshake, after the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

1984, 26 March
Ahmed Sékou Touré, born 9 January 1922, dies. Touré was president of the Republic of Guinea from 1958 until his death.

Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

-- Robert Frost

Did you know. . .

. . . that today is the birthday of the Urinal? Andrew Rankin
patented the urinal in 1866. Um, thank you, Andrew?

1995, 27 March
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the estranged wife of Nelson Mandela, is dismissed from the South African government.

1973: Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for "The Godfather" in protest of Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.

1866: President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill; it later becomes the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Today's Inspirational Quote:

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.
- Ed Asner

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
- Mohammed

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
- Mother Teresa

, Nobody grows old by merely living a no. of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. U re as young as ur faith, as old as ur doubt; as young as ur self-confidence, as old as ur fear; as young as ur hope, as old as ur despair.

People, who consider themselves victims of their circumstances, will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

Did you know. . .

. . .that today is Beware of Rollercoasters Day? In 1999,
romance model Fabio got hit in the face by a Canadian goose
while riding a rollercoaster in a Williamsburg, Virginia,
theme park. Fabio escaped with a bloody nose and three
stitches. Sadly, the goose died.

1981: President Reagan is shot
President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded when a lone gunman opens fire in Washington.
1951: Rosenbergs guilty of espionage
An American electrical engineer and his wife are found guilty by the Federal Court in New York of passing secrets about the atomic bomb to Russia.

2002: Queen Mother dies
Buckingham Palace announces that the Queen Mother has died peacefully in her sleep aged 101.
1979, 30 March
France is granted the right to create a protectorate over Morocco by its Sultan as part of a treaty agreement signed today in Fez. A French resident-general will be appointed and France will take control of Morocco's international finances.

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Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

-- Salvador Dali

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
~Mark Victor Hansen



The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
~George Bernard Shaw


You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand."

~Woodrow Wilson

Don't know why it keeps coming up as blank.

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
~ Henry David Thoreau

Do not let peoples' opinion of you become your own opinion of yourself.   -------- Collin Powell (advise from his mother).

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is:

Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge

~ No sweat, no glory

~Failure itself is refusing to get up after a few falls

~ Why take the road taken? Get an ax and get to work

~ A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

~There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

~ Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it

Never punish unless the punishment is such that you do not need to worry about the victim's revenge. --------------------- Nicole Machiavelli.

Did you know. . .

, that today is Coloring Crayola Day? Celebrate the end of
March by enjoying color! Draw a colorful picture, wear
something bright, enjoy the colors!
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Today's Inspirational Quote:

In order to have friendship you must look past the color to the soul, because within the soul lies a rainbow of many colors.

"Colors are the smiles of nature."

-- Leigh Hunt

Did you that: 

111,111,111 X 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.



Quote: 

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
----------- Albert Einstein
.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised
as insoluble problems.

Did you know. . .

. . . that today, besides being April Fool's Day, is the start
of Be Kind to Spiders Week? In the April 1, 1996, "Garfield"
comic strip, a spider noted that it was Be Kind to Spiders
Week -- just seconds before Garfield squashed the spider.

1979: Following a referendum, Iran is declared an Islamic Republic by the Shiite Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini.

1955, 1 April
South African government assumes direct control of Bantu schools across the country. The ANC responds by launching a boycott of Bantu Education by both scholars and teachers in Bantu schools.

1984: R&B singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in Los Angeles.

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Today's Inspirational Quote:

"A man has to work so hard so that something of his
personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only
to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days."

-- Albert Einstein

Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in."
Wanda Hope Carter; motivational speaker and writer

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
-----------------Mohandas Gandhi

The secret to productive goal setting is establishing clearly defined
goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several
times a day with words and emotions as if we've already
achieved them.

Did you know that: April 2. 1972, Nigeria changed from ‘left-hand-drive’ to ‘right-hand-drive’, also the National Stadium Surulere Lagos was opened.



Quote: A community where dogs kill tiger is unsafe to live. ------------------- Obafemi Awolowo.

~ Good judgment comes from bad experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

~You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

~ The whole world steps aside for a man who knows where he is going

~Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence

The winners in life think constantly in terms of "I can, I will,
I am". Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking
thoughts on what they should have done or on what they
don't do.

Did you know. . ,

. . . that today 1930, 3 April
Haile Selassie (formally Ras Tafari) is proclaimed Emperor of Ethiopia

1996: 'Unabomber' suspect arrested
Police in the US have arrested a man they believe to be the notorious "Unabomber" who killed three people and injured 23 others.

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Today's Inspirational Quote:

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious
gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled
sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the
roughest weather."

-- Washington Irving