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Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 4 views
The story is told of an American tourist in Paris who picked up an amber necklace in a trinket shop. When he arrived at New York and went through customs he was shocked at the high duty he had to pay for the necklace. So when he came home, he spoke with a jeweler and the jeweler told him he would give…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 2 views
There are more possibly connections in one brain than there would be in a world switchboard if every living human being had a telephone. A Layman’s Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, Eric Berne, page 11
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
Seventy separate muscles contribute to hand movements. I could fill a room with surgery manuals suggesting various ways to repair hands that have been injured. But in forty years of study I have never read a technique that has succeeded in improving a normal, healthy hand. Fearfully and Wonderfully Made,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 68 views
spent a couple of my childhood years in Columbia, N.C. If you’ve ever been to Nags Head, down 64 east, you know where it is, although if you blink, you might just miss it. It is or at least it used to be, one of the most isolated towns in the state. It will come as no surprise, then, that back in the…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 6 views
The average human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a lifetime. This is enough to fill 13 super tankers. It never sleeps, beating 2.5 billion times in a lifetime. The lungs contain 1,000 miles of capillaries. The process of exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide is so complicated…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 3 views
Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. - Saint Augustine Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Dr. Paul Brand and…
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A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face." "Yes," the class said. "Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 12 views
In Argentina, everyone is required by law to spend two years in military service. One fellow showed up at the induction center objecting, “What good would I be? I have no arms!” They put him in the army anyway. At basic training camp his commanding officer said, “See that fellow up there on the hill…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 3 views
A chiropractor was known for having a big sign on the wall in his waiting room that asked, "When you wear out this body, then where will you live?" On September 5, 2004, the New York Times reported that "workplace stress costs the nation more than $300 billion each year in health care, missed work, and…
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The human body is the focal point of human existence. Jesus had one. We have one. Without the body in its proper place, the pieces of the puzzle of new life in Christ do not realistically fit together, and the idea of really following Him and becoming like Him remains a practical impossibility. Source:…
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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
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"Overboard Rescue" Passengers aboard a luxurious cruise ship were having a great time when a beautiful young woman fell overboard. Immediately there was an 80-year-old man in the water who rescued her. The crew pulled them both out of the treacherous waters. The captain was grateful as well as astonished…
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He wrote in advance the epitaph to be on his gravestone: “The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here … Yet the Work itself shall not be lost; for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and…