"May your life preach more loudly than your lips."
- William Ellery Channing
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Some guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying: "Free to good home. You want it, you take it."
For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it. He eventually decided that people didn't trust this deal.
It looked too good to be true, so he changed the sign to read: "Fridge for sale - $50."
The next day someone stole it.
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"Your wounds will either become walls of offense or windows of revelation depending on how you respond."
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First, eventually, you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
Second, the older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
Third, some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.
Fourth, when you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
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A burglar who needed money to pay his income taxes decided to rob the safe in a store.
On the safe door, he was very pleased to find a note reading, "Please don't use dynamite. The safe is not locked. Just turn the knob."
He did so. Instantly, a heavy sandbag fell on him, the entire premises was floodlighted, and alarms started clanging.
As the police carried him out on a stretcher, he was heard moaning, "My confidence in human nature has been rudely shaken."
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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