DILEMMA
DILEMMA
Two hunters came across a bear so big that they dropped their rifles and ran for cover. One man climbed a tree while the other hid in a nearby cav...
DIPLOMACY
DIPLOMACY
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your own way.
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DIRECTION
DIRECTION
(see also PURPOSE)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the first African Secretary General of the United Nations, has more than a passing interest in p...
DIRECTIONS
DIRECTIONS
Migratory birds in the U.S. were tagged by the Department of the Interior with metal strips reading "Wash. Biol. Surv."--for Washington Biologi...
DISAGREEMENT
DISAGREEMENT
(see also CONFLICT)
Several years ago I met a gentleman who served on one of Walt Disneys' original advisory boards. What amazing ...
DISAPPOINTMENT
DISAPPOINTMENT
Alexander the Great conquered Persia, but broke down and wept because his troops were too exhausted to push on to India. Hugo Grotius, the ...
DISASTER
DISASTER
(see also TRAGEDY)
Thomas Edison invented the microphone, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the storage battery, talking movies, and ...
DISCERNMENT
DISCERNMENT
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DISCIPLES
DISCIPLES
For the death of the 12 Disciples see APOSTLES
To: Jesus, Son of Joseph
Woodcrafter's Carpenter Shop
Nazareth 25...
DISCIPLESHIP
DISCIPLESHIP
The Word became flesh--and then through theologians it became words again.
Karl Barth.
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DISCIPLINE
DISCIPLINE
The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.
DISCIPLINES
DISCIPLINES
In the 1880s a young man who was an earnest Christian found employment in a pawnshop. Although he disliked the work, he did it faithfully "as ...
Discipline of Children
Discipline of Children
Out of parental concern and a desire to teach our young son responsibility, we require him to phone home when he arrives at his fri...
DISCONTENTMENT
DISCONTENTMENT
"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
Benjamin Franklin.
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DISCOURAGEMENT
DISCOURAGEMENT
Former heavy-weight boxer James (Quick) Tillis is a cowboy from Oklahoma who fought out of Chicago in the early 1980s. He still remembers h...
DISCOVERY
DISCOVERY
In Valladolid, Spain, where Christopher Columbus died in 1506, stands a monument commemorating the great discoverer. Perhaps the most interestin...
DISCRETION
DISCRETION
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
Calvin Coolidge.
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DISGRACE
DISGRACE
Take Edwin Thomas, for instance. Edwin Thomas Booth, that is. At age fifteen he debuted on the stage playing Tressel to his father's Richard...
DISGUISE
DISGUISE
Unless you subscribe to The Atlanta Journal Constitution, you probably missed the story that was in the May 17, 1987 edition. A rock hound named ...
DISHONEST
DISHONEST
The drunk husband snuck up the stairs quietly. He looked in the bathroom mirror and bandaged the bumps and bruises he'd received in a fight...