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| | | Main : CommunicationPebble, A (by: James W. Foley)
Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash, and it is gone;
But there's half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on, Spreading, spreading from the center, flowing on out to the sea.
And there is no way of telling where the end is going to be.
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Power of Popcorn, The (by: Nancy Eckerson)
I crept up to the door and knocked. I was scared -- just a little -- but far too excited to pay the fear much attention. A gruff voice bellowed (just another part of the routine), "Who is it?"
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Rich Beyond Measure (by: Christine Barnes)
Today I feel rich beyond measure. What began as a new idea for my department's celebration of the holiday season has become a very moving and enriching experience.
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Right Moves, The (by: Tom Crabtree)
One day, many years ago, when I was working as a psychologist at a children's institution in England, an adolescent boy showed up in the waiting room. I went out there where he was walking up and down restlessly.
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Secret of an Efficient Secretary, The (by: Author Unknown)
Arnold Bennett, the British novelist, had a publisher who boasted about the extraordinary efficiency of his secretary. One day while visiting the publisher's office, Bennett asked her: "Your boss claims you're extremely efficient. What's your secret?"
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Snap Judgment (by: Author Unknown)
While on a walk one day, I was surprised to see a man hoeing his garden while sitting in a chair.
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They Don't Know What to Say (by: Alice Kerr)
"Now I know I never knew,
when you lost your child,
What you were going through.
I wasn't there,
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Touch (by: Author Unknown)
Yesterday I paused outside the deli in my office building to let pass a rather harried looking mother pushing a stroller loaded with a variety of shoulder bags and a small little girl.
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Wanna Borrow a Jack? (by: J.P. McEvoy)
One day I went to a lawyer friend for advice. "I'm in real trouble," I said. "My neighbors across the road are going on vacation for a month and instead of boarding their dogs they are going to keep them locked up and a woman is coming to feed them ~ if she doesn't forget ~
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Watch What You Say (by: Rafael Robles)
On May 27, 1999, I was working on an automatic shrink wrap machine. While guiding the shrink wrap my hand was pulled into the machine and my middle finger on my right hand was ripped off.
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