Contributed by Trevor Woodget on May 10, 2008
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The Gossamer Albatross was a human powered aircraft which on Jun 12th 1979 completed a successful crossing of the English Channel. The aircraft was powered using pedals to drive a large two-bladed propeller.
Piloted by amateur cyclist Bryan Allen, it completed the 22.2 mile crossing in 2 hours
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Contributed by Rick Pendleton on May 23, 2008
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One of the greatest masterpieces of human engineering is the Golden Gate Bridge. That is not my own assessment because I have never been privileged to see it. It is the opinion of those more knowledgeable than myself...architects, engineers, mathematician, physicists, etc. In fact, one
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Dec 15, 2008
" Compassion is a profound human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another’s suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. In
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2008
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Employed by the human-development center of a corporation in the Midwest, a young woman was training the employees in proper dress codes and etiquette.
One day as she was stepping onto the elevator, a man casually dressed in jeans and a golf shirt got on with her.
Thinking of her
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Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 22, 2009
“The need for human relationships is a deep as anything humans experience. Infants who are given adequate amounts of food and water die if they do not receive human contact. Adults surrounded by people all day long cry out for friendships that will break down the walls of loneliness around them.
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 24, 2019
“Since psychological studies first began, people have given themselves top marks for most positive traits. While most people do well at assessing others, they are wildly positive about their own abilities, Dunning said.
That's because we realize the external traits and circumstances that guide
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account
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Contributed by George Rhodes on Apr 19, 2006
"My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Is my primary goal in life to please Him and to be acceptable to Him, or is it something
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2008
From the book "A Love Worth Giving" by Max Lucado chapter 5- Harold suffered from cerebral palsy. The condition left him unable to walk, dress, feed himself, or go to the rest room. My job was to help him with this. And I didn’t like it. I had moved to St. Louis for spiritual training. Fresh
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by
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