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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48808)	8/3/2005 10:43:08 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." President Calvin Coolidge Both his dry Yankee wit and his frugality with words became legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose." And in 1928, while vacationing in the Black Hills of South Dakota, he issued the most famous of his laconic statements, "I do not choose to run for President in 1928."

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48808)	8/4/2005 6:39:51 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

August 4: * 1578 - King Sebastian of Portugal disappeared in the Battle of Alcazarquivir, leading to a dynastic crisis. * 1790 - A newly passed tariff act in the United States established the Revenue Cutter Service. * 1914 - World War I: Adhering to the terms in the 1839 Treaty of London, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany in response to the German invasion of Belgium. * 1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Incident: Two destroyers of the U.S. Navy were reportedly attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin. * 1983 - A coup d'état led by Blaise Compaoré made Thomas Sankara President of Upper Volta.