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LIFE ADVICE FROM 50 BELOVED CHARACTERS :-)
#19 NORWAY
Did you know that Longbearbyen in Norway is also both the brightest and darkest place on the planet?
Here’s a look at one of its brighter day:
And did you know that Norway allows any student from anywhere in the world to study at their universities for free? (This allowance has no limits, either: undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D.s included.)
11# BISSEXTUS
This odd day was inserted after the sixth day before the kalends of March, i.e.,after the 24th of February, and was not counted as an addition to the year, but asa sort of appendix. Hence the sixth of the kalends of March was called bissextus, or double sixth, which root is still retained in our word bissextile, though the day isnow added at the end of February.
The Romans looked upon the Bissextile, or leap day, as unfortunate, and in theMiddle Ages this superstition was extended to the whole year. The French are stillin the habit of saying, when any misfortune happens, that the bissextus has fallenupon the business.
#18 PERU
Did you know that Peru is one of the most diverse countries in the world? — And that’s a fact. Home to 84 out of the 117 ‘life zones’ existing on earth and 28 of the 32 different types of weather there is no better place to experience the wonders Mother Nature has thrown our way.
The city of Machu Picchu, one of the most famous landmarks in Peru, was voted in 2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
And did you know that Lake Titicaca located along Peru’s border with Bolivia is the largest lake in South America? It is also the highest navigable lake in the world with a surface elevation of 3,812 meters.
10# PREMIATE
A great word for today! Oscars are coming…
Citations for premiate
I assumed then that they mayor might want suggestions about who should be onthe commission to ” premiate ” the buildings….[The commission] produced a listof thirty-nine buildings to be designated landmarks.
We believe that it is more desirable to premiate thrift than to premiate strikes.
#17 NIGERIA
Did you know that…
…English is the official language of Nigeria and is extensively used for education, business transactions and for official purposes? Despite being the first language, English is not spoken at all in some rural areas. Because the majority of the population of the country stays in rural areas, indigenous languages such as the Yoruba and Igbo are spoken by the majority. A derived language called the Nigerian Pidgin English, also called the ‘Pidgin’ or Broken English is also a popular lingua-franca in the country.
And did you know that the Niger Delta covers 20,000 km² within wetlands of 70,000 km² formed primarily by sediment deposition (which makes it the second largest delta on the planet), and has the highest concentration of monotypic (sole member of biological group) fish families in the world?
9# NATTER
Citations for natter
…scholars nattered away at one another on such matters as the propriety ofstarting a vocal trill from the upper note, and a critics’ convocation nattered back.
You’ve interfered in our affairs for no reason at all, kidnapped us and locked us uplike monkeys in a zoo for the rest of our lives, and now you natter on about therich work of the mind!
THE PEOPLE I LIKE
THE PEOPLE I LIKE
I like the people that vibrate, that don’t need to be pushed, that you don’t have to tell them to do stuff, because they know what needs to be done and just do it.
I like the people that cultivate their dreams until those dreams take over their own reality.
I like the people that are able to face the consequences of their actions, people that risk what’s true for what’s uncertain to go after a dream, people that allow themselves to run from “sensitive advice” leaving solutions in the hands of our father God.
I like the people that are fair with their own people and themselves, people that are thankful for each new day, the good things existing in their life, people who live every hour with good enthusiasm giving their best, thankful for being alive, for being able to give smiles, for being able to offer their hands and help kindly, waiting for nothing in return.
I like the people that are capable of criticizing me constructively and up front, but without hurting me. People with tact.
I like the people with sense of justice. These are the people I call my friends.
I like the people that acknowledge the importance of joy and preaches about it.
I like the people that with jokes teach us to conceive life with humor.
I like the people that never stop being childish.
I like the people that are sincere and honest, capable of opposing with reasonable arguments to anyone’s decisions.
I like the people that are loyal and persistent, that fight tirelessly for their goals and ideas. I like people with criteria that are never ashamed of recognizing a mistake or recognizing ignorance about something. People that, when accepting their mistakes, genuinely make an effort not to make them again. People that fight against adversities. People that look for solutions. People that think and meditate. People that value their equals not by a social stereotype or how they look. People that don’t judge and don’t let others judge. I like people with personality. People capable of understanding that humanity’s biggest mistake is to try to get out of their head something that won’t go out of their heart.
Sensitivity, courage, solidarity, kindness, respect, peace, values, joy, humility, faith, happiness, tact, trust, hope, gratitude, wisdom, dreams, regret, and love for others and oneself are fundamental things to be called PEOPLE.
With people like this, I can commit to anything for the rest of my life, because just by having them next to me, I consider myself well rewarded.
—Mario Benedetti
8# INTERNECINE
Citations for internecine
Scientists such as Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller claimedthat only by uniting in a world government the peoples could avoid internecinenuclear wars…
…Rotary does not support the views of the United States, or England, or France, orGermany, or any other country, but simply takes the stand that the disarmamentconference must succeed unless the world is to set up another internecinecompetition in armaments, leading to a more terrible war, perhaps fatal to ourcivilization.