Can Man Live without God
  Ravi Zacharis

- Mother India's Theme Song

 Since I have come into this world
 I must live
 If living means drinking poison
 I have to drink it


- Muhammad Ali, the world heavyweight champion was flying to one of his
  engagements. Ali's name has never been synonymous with humility, and thus 
  whether this story is faact or fiction, the notoriously yet affectionately
  branded "Lousville Lip" atleast made possible such an anecdote. During the
  flight flight the aircraft ran into foul weather, and mild to moderate
  turbulunce began to toss it about. All nervous fliers well known that
  when a pilot signals "moderate turbulence", he is implying, "if you 
  any religious beliefs, it is time to express them." The passengers were
  accordingly instructed to fasten their seat belts immediately. Everyone
  but Ali compplied. Noticing this, the flight attendant approached him
  and requested that he observe the captains order, only to hear Ali
  audaciously respond, "Superman dont need no seatbelt". The flight
  attendant did not miss a bear and replied,"Superman don;t need no
  airplane either."

- Every calling has its hazards. At  neighborhood parties, doctors are an
  abused group, enduring the questions posed by friends as each presents
  his or own litany of maladies in the hope of a cure. Lawyers at such 
  gatherings are induced by newly introduced acquintances to provide free
  counsel on any personal matter.

  I once heard of a doctor who was exasperated at this constant professional
  exploitation and was on a particular occasion commiserating with a friend
  who was a lawyer, asking him what she should do when her professional 
  exploitation was taken advantage of in such settings. 

  The lawyer suggeted that an easy solution would be to send a bill to the
  abuser of such a privelege. The doctors gratitude for the good advice was
  short lived whem the next day she received a bill for legal counsel in the
  mail


- The story was of a roving reporter conducting a survey from country to 
  country. In America, the first stop, he asked a person on the street, 
  " What is your opinion on the shortage of meat in the World ?". The
  bemused American predictably responded "What is shortage"

  Continuing his single minded survey his next stop was in a deprived
  nation weighed down by the pain of famine. The reporter inquired, 
  " What is your opinion on the shortage of meat in the World ?"   
  and the famished individual predictably responded, "What is meat ?"

  His third location was a countrlustrangled by a dictatorial regime, and
  there the reporter asjed a person standing in a long line for food,
  " What is your opinion on the shortage of meat in the World ?" 
  Having   been stripped of all individuality, the puzlled person intoned
  "What is opinion"

  Finally, the frustrated reporter ended up in the Middle East and quizzed
  a harried individual on his way to work. 
  " What is your opinion on the shortage of meat in the World ?" 
  Wildly gesturing the Middle Easterner countered "What is, what is ?"