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Inspirational quotes. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”. — Serena Williams. “Your worth consists in what you are, and not ...
Ten-codes, especially "10-4" (meaning "understood") first reached public recognition in the mid- to late-1950s through the popular television series Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford. [ citation needed ] Crawford would reach into his patrol car to use the microphone to answer a call and precede his response with "10-4".
4. "We must be our own before we can be another’s." — Ralph Waldo Emerson. 5. "Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can ...
The Māori verses were composed by Canon Wiremu Te Tau Huata, who served as a chaplain during WWII for the 28th (Māori) Battalion and composed many famous waiata. While set to the music of "How Great Thou Art", and often combined with the English version of this hymn, the Māori lyrics are instead a loose translation of the hymn "Abide with Me ...
The Gita in the title of the Bhagavad Gita literally means "song". Religious leaders and scholars interpret the word Bhagavad in a number of ways. Accordingly, the title has been interpreted as, "the song of God"; "the word of God" by the theistic schools, [13] "the words of the Lord", [14] "the Divine Song", [15] [page needed] [16] and "Celestial Song" by others.
Nature quotes. “Swim through the serene summer sky.”. — Virgil. “As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see ...
Serenity Prayer. A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown). The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to ...
10-77/10-double-7 No or negative, often said with intensity. 10-100 Restroom break. 10-200 Police needed at _____. (In the trucking-themed movie Smokey and the Bandit, a character jokingly plays off this usage, saying that 10-100 is better than 10-200, meaning that 10-100 was peeing and 10-200 was doing a #2). 20 Abbreviation of "10-20 ...