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#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, theosophist and feminist, was born Margaret Gillespie, daughter of a law clerk, in Boyle, Co Roscommon, and lived out her commitments on two continents. She took a music degree in Dublin in 1902, marrying James Cousins in 1903. She worked as a part-time music teacher, and joined him as a vegetarian, theosophist and medium, among Dublin’s literary circles. This activism…

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Quotes for Sunday July 30,2017

Appreciation quotes Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.--Susan Taylor The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.--G. K. Chesterton (Autobiography) Appreciate what you have, accept the blessings waiting for you to need them, and above all - realize that Source from which it all comes.--Michael Rawls Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.--Voltaire Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.--Marty Rubin A basic rule for managers is "Pass the pride down." People like to create when they can earn recognition for their ideas. When a good idea surfaces, the creator's immediate superiors should show prompt appreciation.--James L. Hayes ======= Blessings quotes Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.  Rick Warren    -   What On Earth Am I Here for? It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all.  Joyce Meyers, Be Anxious For Nothing Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.  Norman Vincent Peale -  Have A Great Day In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.Wilferd A. Peterson, The Art of Living Treasure Chest Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.  Mary C. Neal, MD, To Heaven and Back Always count your blessings and thank God for all that you have. Catherine Pulsifer Make no mistake about it, responsibilities toward other human beings are the greatest blessings God can send us.  Dorothy Dix There are so many blessings that go along with tithing, but it is the principle of putting God first and the principle of faith that initiates the blessings. It is the trigger. Robert Morris, The Blessed Life: The Simple Secret of Achieving Guaranteed Financia ============== Faith quotes Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. -Franklin D. Roosevelt It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. -Oliver Wendell Holmes Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King, Jr. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. -Mother Teresa Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. -Henry Ward Beecher Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. -Helen Keller ============= Happiness quotes Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.--Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.--Gretta Palmer Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.--Samuel Levenson Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.--Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is a present attitude--not a future condition.--Hugh Prather Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.--Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.--Thomas Merton Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.--Margaret Lee Runbeck Happiness is not found by searching for it, because you find it only when you realize you already have it.--David Charles Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.--Lilian Eichler Watson Happiness is not the end of life: character is.--Henry Ward Beecher (Life Thoughts) =========== Past quotes The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.--L. Thomas Holdcroft The past is never where you think you left it.--Katherine Anne Porter The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.--Wendell Berry (Standing by Words) Past is past and we must live the present to survive the future.--Martin Ducavne (The 214th Poet) The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.--Parker Palmer ("Meaning Changes As Life Unfolds") Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.--Dale Turner ========= Patience quotes Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.--Soren Kierkegaard (Journal) Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.--Joyce Meyer Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing;" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.--Fulton J. Sheen Patience is the art of caring slowly.--John Ciardi Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.--Plautus Patience is the companion of wisdom.--Saint Augustine Patience is the key to contentment.--Mohammed Patience is the mother of a beautiful child.--Bantu proverb

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Quotes for Monday January 16,2017

Happiness quotes Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.--Gretta Palmer Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.--Samuel Levenson Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.--Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is a present attitude--not a future condition.--Hugh Prather Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.--William Butler Yeats Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.--Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.--Thomas Merton Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.--Margaret Lee Runbeck Happiness is not found by searching for it, because you find it only when you realize you already have it.--David Charles ~~~~~~~~~~~ Hope quotes Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.--Thomas Chandler Haliburton Hope is a talent like any other.--Storm Jameson Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.--Jeremy Collier Hope is a waking dream.--Aristotle Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.--Lin Yutang Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.--Letitia E. Landon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Life quotes Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown I think I've discovered the secret of life — you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Appreciation quotes Margaret Cousins submitted by MaryAnn Herman-Bogle Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. William Arthur submitted by Mary Ann Herman-Bogle Flatter me and I may not believe you. Criticize me and I may not like you. Ignore me and I may not forgive you. Encourage me and I may not forget you. Voltaire  Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Elbert Hubbard  I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Being yourself quotes Just be yourself, there is no one better. -Taylor Swift We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. -Jane Austen Your limitations are not set by who you are but who you think you’re not. All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. -Hardy D. Jackson It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. -Michael Jackson It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. -e.e. cummings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Courage quotes Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it. -Napoleon I Courage can’t see around corners but goes around them anyway. -Mignon McLaughlin Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. -John Wayne Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. -Dale Carnegie A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. -William G.T. Shedd

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#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, theosophist and feminist, was born Margaret Gillespie, daughter of a law clerk, in Boyle, Co Roscommon, and lived out her commitments on two continents. She took a music degree in Dublin in 1902, marrying James Cousins in 1903. She worked as a part-time music teacher, and joined him as a vegetarian, theosophist and medium, among Dublin’s literary circles. This activism…

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#OTD in Irish History | 7 October:

1731 – A complaint is made to the House of Commons ‘that Mr Anthony Tenison did, in a violent and notorious manner, assault John Bourke, Esq., a Member of this House, by presenting a pistol to his breast, and threatening to shoot him, on the thirtieth of December last’. 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon. 1910 – Premiere of Percy…

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#OTD in Irish History | 7 October:

#OTD in Irish History | 7 October:

1731 – A complaint is made to the House of Commons ‘that Mr Anthony Tenison did, in a violent and notorious manner, assault John Bourke, Esq., a Member of this House, by presenting a pistol to his breast, and threatening to shoot him, on the thirtieth of December last’. 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon. 1910 – Premiere of Percy…

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#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, theosophist and feminist, was born Margaret Gillespie, daughter of a law clerk, in Boyle, Co Roscommon, and lived out her commitments on two continents. She took a music degree in Dublin in 1902, marrying James Cousins in 1903. She worked as a part-time music teacher, and joined him as a vegetarian, theosophist and medium, among Dublin’s literary circles. This activism…

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#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, theosophist and feminist, was born Margaret Gillespie, daughter of a law clerk, in Boyle, Co Roscommon, and lived out her commitments on two continents.

She took a music degree in Dublin in 1902, marrying James Cousins in 1903. She worked as a part-time music teacher, and joined him as a vegetarian, theosophist and medium, among Dublin’s literary circles. This activism…

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#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, theosophist and feminist, was born Margaret Gillespie, daughter of a law clerk, in Boyle, Co Roscommon, and lived out her commitments on two continents.

She took a music degree in Dublin in 1902, marrying James Cousins in 1903. She worked as a part-time music teacher, and joined him as a vegetarian, theosophist and medium, among Dublin’s literary circles. This activism…

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#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

#OTD in 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, theosophist and feminist, was born Margaret Gillespie, daughter of a law clerk, in Boyle, Co Roscommon, and lived out her commitments on two continents. She took a music degree in Dublin in 1902, marrying James Cousins in 1903. She worked as a part-time music teacher, and joined him as a vegetarian, theosophist and medium, among Dublin’s literary circles. This activism…

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#OTD in Irish History | 7 October:

#OTD in Irish History | 7 October:

1731 – A complaint is made to the House of Commons ‘that Mr Anthony Tenison did, in a violent and notorious manner, assault John Bourke, Esq., a Member of this House, by presenting a pistol to his breast, and threatening to shoot him, on the thirtieth of December last’. 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon. 1910 – Premiere of Percy…

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#OTD in Irish History – 7 October:

#OTD in Irish History – 7 October:

1731 – A complaint is made to the House of Commons ‘that Mr Anthony Tenison did, in a violent and notorious manner, assault John Bourke, Esq., a Member of this House, by presenting a pistol to his breast, and threatening to shoot him, on the thirtieth of December last’.

1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

1910 – Premiere of Percy…

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#OTD in Irish History – 7 October:

#OTD in Irish History – 7 October:

1731 – A complaint is made to the House of Commons ‘that Mr Anthony Tenison did, in a violent and notorious manner, assault John Bourke, Esq., a Member of this House, by presenting a pistol to his breast, and threatening to shoot him, on the thirtieth of December last’.

1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon.

1910 – Premiere of Percy…

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#OTD in Irish History – 7 October:

#OTD in Irish History – 7 October:

1731 – A complaint is made to the House of Commons ‘that Mr Anthony Tenison did, in a violent and notorious manner, assault John Bourke, Esq., a Member of this House, by presenting a pistol to his breast, and threatening to shoot him, on the thirtieth of December last’. 1878 – Birth of Irish women’s rights activist, Margaret (Gretta) Cousins, in Boyle, Co Roscommon. 1910 – Premiere of Percy…

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Quotes for Thursday July 27,2017

Appreciation  quotes Appreciate what you have, accept the blessings waiting for you to need them, and above all - realize that Source from which it all comes.--Michael Rawls Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.--Voltaire Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.--Marty Rubin Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.--Susan L. Lenzkes Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.--Sydney J. Harris Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.--Abraham Joshua Heschel =========== Attitude quotes Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.--Winston S. Churchill Attitude is the mind's paintbrush, it can color any situation.--Unknown The attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.--Alan Watts Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.--Jim Rohn Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.--Fulton J. Sheen Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.--Bill Meyer ========= Eleanor Roosevelt quotes Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present. You must do the things you think you cannot do. When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. ========= Encouragement quotes Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.--Booker T. Washington Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the slights of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.--Francesco Guicciardini Children may forget what you say, but they'll never forget how you make them feel.--Parker Palmer (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) Correction does much, but encouragement does more.--Goethe ============ Faith quotes Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.--Mahalia Jackson Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.--Albert Pike Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.--Voltaire Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.--Charles Spurgeon Faith is a continuation of reason.--William Adams Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.--Mitch Albom (Have a Little Faith: a True Story) Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.--Kahlil Gibron Faith is affirming success before it comes. Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.--Robert Schuller ========= Happiness quotes Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.--Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.--Gretta Palmer Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.--Samuel Levenson Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.--Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is a present attitude--not a future condition.--Hugh Prather Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.--Eleanor Roosevelt Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.--Thomas Merton Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.--Margaret Lee Runbeck Happiness is not found by searching for it, because you find it only when you realize you already have it.--David Charles Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.--Lilian Eichler Watson Happiness is not the end of life: character is.--Henry Ward Beecher (Life Thoughts) ========== Prayer quotes If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough. -Meister Eckhart The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. -Søren Kierkegaard Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. -Corrie ten Boom Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. -Benjamin Franklin You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. -Kahlil Gibran God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil. -E.M. Bounds We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. - Oswald Chambers A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. -Paulo Coelho

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Quotes for Tuesday May 16,2017

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ===== Encouragement quotes Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.--Booker T. Washington Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.--Stephanie Lahart (Overcoming Life's Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-Empower) Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.--Maya Angelou ==== Faith quotes Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.--Voltaire Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.--Charles Spurgeon Faith is a continuation of reason.--William Adams Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.--Kahlil Gibron Faith is affirming success before it comes. Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.--Robert Schuller Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.--Ralph W. Trine ==== Joyce Meyer  quotes It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all. We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners. Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him. It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor. If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things. As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord. We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it. To know and experience what God can do, we must first realize and acknowledge what we cannot do. We must get our eyes off of ourselves and our limited ability, and totally onto Him and His infinite power. It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours. ==== Happiness quotes Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.--Omar Khayyam Be joyful ... Do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about.--St. David Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.--Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.--Gretta Palmer Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.--Samuel Levenson Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ==== Thankfullness quotes Everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.--G. K. Chesterton Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.--William Arthur Ward For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.--Clarence E. Hodges For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.--Storm Jameson (Journey from the North, v.2) Give thanks for all things. All things great and small, good, bad, for all things are for a purpose.--Ann Herbstreith Giving thanks is one course from which we never graduate.--Valerie Anders God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"--William A. Ward