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RELIGIOUS REFERENCES

The Holy Bible
      (1) The King James Version
      (2) The New Revised Standard
      (3) The Jerusalem Bible
      (4) The New International Version
      (5) The American Standard Version

Great Religions of the World
      A Volume in the Story of Man Library
      National Geographic Society
           Quest for the Universal One
                  Amiya Chakravarty

The Bhagavad-Gita
      translated by E. Arnold
      published by The Abbey Library, London

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS

Analects       Confucius - K’ung-fu-tzu - 551?-479?BC
           Confucius sought order and peace
           through reverence of custom,
           concern with human society,
           and the practice of perfect virtue.

Five Great Dialogues
      Apology - Crito - Phædo - Symposium - Republic
           Plato - 427-347BC
                 student of Socrates

Nicomachean Ethics
      Aristotle - 384-322BC
           student of Plato

Meditations
      Marcus Aurelius 121-180AD
           Emperor of the Roman Empire
           161-180AD
           There is some evidence that he
           assented to, if he did not approve,
           the persecution of Christians

MODERN PHILOSOPHERS

The Desire of Ages
      Ellen G. White
           Review and Herald Publishing
           Association
           Takoma Park, Washington, DC
                 Ellen White is considered a
                 Prophet by the Seventh Day
                 Adventist Church.
                 Some even consider her as a
                 Saint.

The Cost of Discipleship (Nachfolge)
      Dietrich Bonhöffer
           The MacMillan Company
           New York

TECHNICAL REFERENCES

Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition       The World Publishing Company
      New York and Cleveland

Encyclopædia Britannica
      William Benton, Publisher
      Chicago, London, Toronto, Geneva,
      Sydney, Tokyo, Manila

The Internet       www.nationalgeographic.com
      www.stsci.edu
      www.nasa.gov
      & others

PEOPLE & GROUPS

Men’s Prayer Breakfast
      Westminster Presbyterian Church
           Decatur, Illinois
      Meets Wednesdays at 7AM
      at Milliken University
Many of these thoughts came out of that august group or were bounced off their minds. These quotes are pulled from my memory after leaving, so may be not exactly as originally stated.

Fifth grade class of Northwest Christian School
      Decatur Illinois. 1998

Many people who have proofread, commented, and critiqued this work.

FICTION

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    or    Life Among the Lowly
      Harriet Beecher Stowe
      International Collectors Library
           Garden City, New York

The Robot Novels
      Isaac Asimov

Star Wars
      George Lucas

Sixty years of reading books from which I have stolen many of my ideas.

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