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BEFORE OPPORTUNITY CROWNS YOU WITH GREAT SUCCESS, IT USUALLY TESTS YOUR METTLE THROUGH ADVERSITY.

Adversity provides the resistance necessary to develop the strength to overcome great obstacles. This strength consists of self-confidence, perseverance, and, very importantly, self-knowledge. For if you do encounter a setback, it is a clue to a personal weakness. More

“For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.”
Barbara Ehrenreich, author, social critic

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  -Winston Churchill

“The ultimate aim of civility and good manners is to please: to please one’s guest or to please one’s host. To this end one uses the rules laid down by tradition: of welcome, generosity, affability, cheerfulness and consideration for others. People entertain warmly and joyously. To persuade a friend to stay for lunch is a triumph and a precious honour. To entertain many together is to honor them all mutually. It is equally an honour to be a guest.”
Claudia Roden, food writer. ‘A Book of Middle Eastern Food’ (1968)

Here is an article on mswealthywoman.com…

After watching the Grammy Awards this past Sunday night, I started to think about how much money the women in the music industry must make.  I did a Google web search on Wealthiest Women in Music and came accross a list from Forbes that included all income from album sales, royalties, concerts and endorsments from June 2006 to June 2007. Here is the top 20:

 1. Madonna - 72 million
 2. Barbara Steisand - 60 million
 3. Celine Dion - 45 million
 4. Shakira - 38 million
 5. Beyonce - 27 million
View the rest of the list

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.

-Thornton Wilder  from “The Matchmaker”

“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) ‘Othello’

“You cannot instruct people by a book how to entertain…..Success in entertaining is accomplished by magnetism and tact, which combined constitute social genius.”
Ward McAllister, ‘Society As I Have Found It’ (1890)