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What comes is your credit.

What goes is your debit.

The birth is your opening stock.

Your ideas are your assets.

Your views are your liabilities.

The happeness is your profit.

The sorrow is your loss.

Your soul is your goodwill.

Your heart is your fixed assets.

Your duties are your outstanding liabilities.

Your friendship is your hidden adjustments.

Your character is your capital.

Your knowledge is your investment.

Your patience is your interest.

Your mind is your bank balance.

Your thinking is your current account.

Your behavior is your journal entry.

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Two weeks ago was my 35th birthday, and I wasn't feeling too hot that morning anyway. I went to breakfast knowing my wife would be pleasant and say "Happy Birthday," and probably have a present for me.

She didn't even say "Good Morning," let alone any "Happy Birthday." I thought, "Well, that's wives for you, the children will remember."

The children came in to breakfast and didn't say a word.

When I started to the office I was feeling pretty low and despondent. As I walked into my office, my secretary, Janet, said, "Good morning, boss. Happy Birthday." And I felt a little better, someone had remembered. I worked until noon.

Then, Janet knocked on my door and said "You know, it's such a beautiful day outside and it's your birthday; let's go to lunch, just you and me." I said, "By George, that's the greatest thing I've heard all day. Let's go." We went to lunch.

We didn't go where we normally go, we went out to the country to a little private place. We had two martinis and enjoyed lunch tremendously.

On the way back to the office, she said, "You know, it's such a beautiful day. We don't need to go back to the office, do we?" I said, "No, I guess not." She said, "Let's go to my apartment."

After arriving at her apartment she said, "Boss, if you don't mind, I think I'll go into the bedroom and slip into something more comfortable."

"Sure," I excitedly replied.

She went into the bedroom and, in about six minutes, she came out carrying a big birthday cake, followed by my wife, children, and dozens of our friends, all singing Happy Birthday.

And there I sat... on the couch... Naked.

A massive asteroid could hit Earth in just 17 years' time, destroying life as we know it, a British space expert said on July 24, 2002. The asteroid -- the most threatening object ever detected in space -- is 1.2 miles wide and apparently on a direct collision course with Earth. (Reuters Graphic)

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A 2002 Aston Martin V12 Vanquish is shown in a Ford Motor Company handout photo. After flirting with other vehicles in past adventures, super spy James Bond and his adversaries again will be cruising and cavorting in Ford Motor Co. vehicles in the upcoming film, "Die Another Day." Impatient Bond wannabes ought not get in line for the Vanquish. The waiting list for the $228,000 beauty is nearly two years. (AP Photo/Ford Motor Company)

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Baywatch actress/model Bonnie-Jill Lafin poses with a goat during a photo shoot in Dallas, Texas for an upcoming PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) advertising campaign, August 12, 2002. PETA plans to unveil the ad campaign, called "Nobody Likes An Eight Second Ride", at the National Rodeo Finals in Las Vegas in December. REUTERS/Jeff Mitchell