Gift is a sign of IMPORTANCE toward presentee rather than just a costlier present with its beautiful appearance.
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A story

As a first grade teacher for many years, I have always included Christmas traditions families share. I tell the story of how my children and I made dozens of cookies and candies to share with everyone. Another area we discussed was the cost of traditions. I discussed how I had to buy lots of things to make the cookies and candies. I asked them to guess which ingredient they thought cost the most. We graphed their answers. Pecans was the most costly item but came in last in our graph. Some of the students shared their holiday traditions. A week later the students started to bring in their gifts for their teacher. I received some very nice ones. However, the most precious gift I received was from "John". He came from a poor family. There were five children and their mother had died when he was only two.

He shyly came up to my desk with his Christmas present. He had a brown lunch sack decorated with crayons. Inside was a hand full of pecans. He whispered that he didn't have any money for a present but he asked his neighbor if he could pick up some pecans for his teacher so she could make cookies and candy.

Tears still come to my eyes when I think of how thoughtful "John" was that Christmas many years ago. He moved when he was in third grade and I have lost track of him. However, every Christmas his pecans are place in a holiday bowl on our coffee table and I remember "John" and how loving and thoughtful his gift to me was. No gift has ever meant as much to me.

~Joyce Harmon

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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
~Hamilton Wright Mabie

Wish you a Merry Christmas and may this festival bring abundant joy and happiness in your life!

You are special, may your Christmas be also as very special !

Merry Christmas!

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Thomas Alva Edison

A Sketch by Shyam

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”

~ Thomas Alva Edison

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*A Well Known Story *

Thomas Alva Edison was labeled an “addled” boy and was sent out of the school. But his poor mother refused to take the teacher’s words and she taught him by herself. They were quite poor people. By the age of 10 he was selling newspapers to make a living. He did not have the family background or the necessary resources for a university education. He taught himself all the time and achieved so much in his life by his indomitable persistence. rnt

He started his experiments in a ramshackle shed near his little home. He did not any have a new lab or a guide. He was all by himself. This is the boy who later patented more than thousands of inventions! How much difficulties and struggles he had to undergo to reach his goals! But inventions did not come very easy. It was the hard way all through.

When he was working on the electric bulb, he failed over 10,000 times. Edison was trying to identify a material that can withstand heat when electricity is passed through its thin filaments. He ordered various types of materials from around the world and started testing. One test failed, two test failed …hundred tests failed…. thousand tests failed….ten thousand tests failed!

His friends and family members asked him, “Have you gone mad?” “Well, I know ten thousand things that won’t work. Hence I am nearer to my goal than I ever was,” he replied. The very next test was success. The Tungsten filament was identified and electric bulb became a reality.

When he tried to identify a plant that could yield latex, he had to do many more tests. No wonder he said,

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.”

He was not intelligent by any standard of the time. He was poor and he had to undergo the ridicule from his peers. So, many dissuaded from him work and ''cranky'' experiments. But he proved them all wrong. When he was past 75, a big fire destroyed his office and everything he had built up so far. His friends and relatives thought that he was finished. But the very next day he started the work of another office and he contributed so much later to make human life more comfortable and meaningful.

His life proves that success is 99 percent hard work. It does not matter whether you are born into poverty or whether you are uneducated. He has proved that anyone can climb to any level from zero.
~ By Prof.P.A.Varghese, 2008

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Society and circumstance is pretty responsible to define and build up the nature of a child, so present an inspiration and child friendly society to make them as you expect.
~Imm
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A child who lives with Criticism

Learns to condemn

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A child who lives with Hostility

Learns to fight

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A child who lives with ridicule

Learns to be shy

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A child who lives with shame

Learns to feel guilty

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A child who lives with tolerance

Learns to be patient

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A child who lives with encouragement

Learns confidence

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A child who lives with Praise

Learns to appreciate

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A child who lives with fairness

Learns justice

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A child who lives with security

Learns faith

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A child who lives with approval

Learns to like themself

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A child who lives with acceptance & friendship

Learns to find love in the world

- Dorothy Law Nolte - (modified)

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Mystery of the Universe (New Blog)
(I Need Your Contribution)

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Why gravitational force is still an interesting phenomenon/subject for the world of science? Please click here: http://mystery-of-the-universe.blogspot.com/2008/12/why-gravitational-force-is-still.html

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Following are the some of my collections of information based on mystery of the universe. I expect the same kind of information/questions/answers from you.
Please click here: http://mystery-of-the-universe.blogspot.com/2008/12/following-are-some-of-my-collection-of.html

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"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
~Khalil Gibran

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A story

When a first-time father cuddled his newborn son, he immediately noticed the baby's ears conspicuously standing out from his head. He expressed his concern to the nurse that some children might taunt his child, calling him names like "Dumbo." A doctor examined the baby and reassured the new dad that his son was healthy - the ears presented only a minor cosmetic problem. But the nervous father persisted. He wondered if the child might suffer psychological effects of ridicule, or if they should consider plastic surgery. The nurse assured him that it was really no problem, and he should just wait to see if the boy grows into his ears.
The father finally felt more optimistic about his child, but now he worried about his wife's reaction to those large, protruding ears. She had delivered by cesarean section, and had not yet seen the child. "She doesn't take things as easily as I do," he said to the nurse. By this time, the new mother was settled in the recovery room and ready to meet her new baby. The nurse went along with the dad to lend some support in case this inexperienced mother became upset about her baby's large ears.
The infant was swaddled in a receiving blanket with his head covered for the short trip through the chilly air-conditioned corridor. The baby was placed in his mother's arms, who eased the blanket back so that she could gaze upon her child for the first time. She took one look at her baby's face and looked to her husband and gasped, "Oh, Honey! Look! He has your ears!" No problem with Mom. She married those ears...and she loves the man to whom they are attached.

The poet Khalil Gibran said:
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." It's hard to see the ears when you're looking into the light.
~ Steve Goodier ~

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