       To:       The Class
       From:     Your Humble Facilitator
       Subject:  Big Memo
       Date:     December 35, 2002 (a year later)

       This memo is designed to be used as a bigger practice file for
       UNIX.  It is a very versatile memo - it can be viewed with any
       command that is used to look at the contents of text files;  it
       can be printed;  it can act as the "straight-man" file for a
       a demonstraton of the UNIX spell-checker utility, spell;  it
       serves well as a practice file when learning the vi editor.

       This starts the second paragraph of the memo.  If you have 
       carefully and thoroughly read the first paragraph, then you 
       have a good feel for why this memo was written.  But you may not
       have noticed that there are some inexcusable problems with the 
       the document as it is written.  We have not bilt a very good
       communiqique here.  It kills me to read such junk.

       Thank you for your attention to this short one-screen memo.
       No reply is necessary.
       It does fit on 22 lines, doesn't it?

       NO, IT ACTUALLY DOESN'T, because we are making it bigger so when
       we use the more command, and particularly the vi editor, we will
       have plentero of text to practice with.  You see, short files
       don't demonstrate the scrolling commands of vi very well, because
       there is nothing (or very little) to scroll.  Just to bring more
       in here, we will now insert a C program:

	  main()
	  {
	     printf("hello world\n");
	  }

	This is a very famous C program, no joke.  It is known as the
	'hello world' program, and it is used to introduce people to
	the fascinating programming language that the UNIX operating
	system is written in.

	Let's include one more tidbit here.  This is a file known as
	"wisdom".  You can take it with you.


Business is a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as
impossible situations.

The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones
is the way you use them.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that
others throw at him.

Obstacles should be regarded merely as obstacles, not as stopping-places.

Within every adversity is the the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Man is not rewarded for having brains, but for using them.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

Do you act,or react?

Discipline: it's not the hours you put in that counts, it's what you put
in the hours.

He that never climbed never fell.   - John Heywood

Storms make oaks take deeper root.   - George Herbert

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To handle yourself, use your head;  to handle others, use you heart.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

As a blossom cannot tell what becomes of its fragrance,
so no one can tell what becomes of his influence.

Would you want to be friends with you?

Let the other fellow talk occasionally.  You can't learn much listening
to yourself.

Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth.

Speech is the index of the mind.

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Past experience should be a guide post, not a hitching post.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there fast.
