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A reporter was interviewing three baseball umpires: "How do you call balls and strikes?" The rookie umpire says, "I call 'em like I see 'em." The experienced umpire says, "I call 'em like they are." Eyes turn to the old veteran umpire, who smiles and says, "They aren't anything until I call 'em."
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Just as the umpire—not the batter or the outside observer—is the authority regarding balls and strikes, so also God—not we—is the authority regarding all matters of right and wrong in this world.
Source: Nick's Humor List, 3/18/1999.
Topics/Tags: Truth; Absolutes; Authority; God, sovereign
"My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular; you make them because THEY'RE RIGHT."
-- Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., former president, Univ. of Notre Dame
Source: "Bits & Pieces," Vol. R, #5.
According to that prodigious writer Isaac Asimov, there is a horseshoe fixed on the wall above the desk of the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. It has its open end up in the traditional way to catch good luck and hold it safely for the horseshoe's owner.
An American scientist visiting Bohr in Copenhagen asked him, "Surely a levelheaded scientist like you, Professor Bohr, can't possibly believe that a horseshoe will bring you luck?"
Chuckling, Bohr replied, "I believe no such thing, not at all. How could I give credence to such an absurd idea? However, I am told that a horseshoe WILL bring you luck, whether you 'believe' it or not…"
Source: Bob Monkhouse, "The Complete Speaker's Handbook"
Topics/Tags: Belief; Luck; Absolutes; Superstition
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