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bills broke collect decided everybody felt finally forty gold hard hardware laughed left leg pay saved shot store town turned volcano worked
The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high. 
bills cover expenses insurance job medical onto paying
When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital. P. J. O'Rourke
bills looks look-at-me
Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous. J. K. Rowling
ego care fragility
What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us Jeff Jarvis
ego soul cracks
Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego. Ram Dass
impossible realizing should
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. Samuel Butler
intention jeff keeping tag
We put the tag on Jeff Backus with the intention of keeping him here not only in 2006, but beyond.
pride important cameras
I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit. Dorothea Lange
pride kingdoms sovereign
Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it. William Hazlitt
pride community empowerment
It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small! Narendra Modi
pride government air
The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.
pride compassion elderly
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents. Louise J. Kaplan
pride artist color
It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots. Genevieve Gorder
pride trying might
Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do. Henry Rollins
pride enemy unity
Pride is the great enemy of unity Henry B. Eyring
pride defense skillful
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride. Helen Hunt Jackson
vanity ifs who-you-are
If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody. Gregory Peck