WordAddition

Fury = 70 = Wrath

I do not like fury and wrath but would rather have peace and tranquility.

F+U+R+Y = 70 = W+R+A+T+H

"And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, fury and great wrath.” - Bible
 
“And now therefore says the Lord, God of Israel, concerning this city whereof you say, 'It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, famine and pestilence.' Behold, I will gather them out of all nations where I have driven them in my anger, fury and great wrath. And I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely. And they will be my people, and I will be their God. And I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever - for their own good and for their children after them.” - Bible

Duty = 70 = Honor = 70 = Courage

Duty, honor and courage are a soldier's calling.

D+U+T+Y = 70 = H+O+N+O+R = 70= C+O+U+R+A+G+E

“God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, shall not blind me to my duty to my own manhood, to the glory of my calling, and to my responsibility to my fellow soldiers. Grant to our armed forces that disciplined valor and mutual confidence which insures success in war. Let me not mourn for the men who have died fighting, but rather let me be glad that such heroes have lived. If it be my lot to die, let me do so with courage and honor in a manner which will bring the greatest harm to the enemy, and please, oh Lord, protect and guide those I shall leave behind. Give us the victory, Lord.” - General George Patton 
 
“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” -  Douglas MacArthur 
 
“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” -  Theodore Roosevelt

Nuclear = 74 = Energy

Among renewable energy sources, I prefer wind and solar to nuclear energy.

N+U+C+L+E+A+R = 74 = E+N+E+R+G+Y

Presently, nuclear energy provides for approximately 16% of the world's electricity. - thinkquest.org
 
Nuclear power can come from the fission of uranium, plutonium or thorium or the fusion of hydrogen into helium. Today it is almost all uranium. The basic energy fact is that the fission of an atom of uranium produces 10 million times the energy produced by the combustion of an atom of carbon from coal. - stanford.edu
 
Nuclear power plants are the most secure industrial facilities in the nation. The industry incorporates physical security measures, plant surveillance and access systems and cyber security, and coordinates with federal, state and local law enforcement and intelligence authorities to keep nuclear plants safe and secure. - nei.org

Genius = 75 = Madness

There is a fine line between genius and madness.

G+E+N+I+U+S = 75 = M+A+D+N+E+S+S

“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.” - Aristotle
 
“Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.”
- James Joyce 
 
“In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road. See them aloft, see them in the distance; they are but black specks. On they go. The road is uneven, its difficulties constant. At each step a wall, at each step a trap. As they rise the cold increases. They must make their ladder, cut the ice and walk on it., hewing the steps in haste. A storm is raging. Nevertheless they go forward in their madness. The air becomes difficult to breath. The abyss yawns below them. Some fall. Others stop and retrace their steps; there is a sad weariness. The bold ones continue. They are eyed by the eagles; the lightning plays about them: the hurricane is furious. No matter, they persevere.” -  Victor Hugo

Injure = 77 = Wound

To injure is to wound.

I+N+J+U+R+E = 77 = W+O+U+N+D

“No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Gossip = 85 = Rumor

Gossip causes rumors to spread - which in turn causes more gossip.

G+O+S+S+I+P = 85 = R+U+M+O+R

“I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.” - Beverly Mitchell

“Many people get caught up in the non-stop gossip, rumor, and speculation that goes on every day. They end up making buy and sell decisions based on their emotions and using very unreliable information.” - Mark Hing
 
“This is not exemplary of good governance. This is governance by gossip and rumor mill rather than law.”
-  Karl Wachter

Justice = 87 = Truth

Truth and justice promote peace.

J+U+S+T+I+C+E = 87 = T+R+U+T+H

“Justice is truth in action.” - Benjamin Disraeli

“Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more, taste the blessings of freedom.”
-  Mary Todd Lincoln 

“Truth, Justice, and the American Way.” - Superman

Cold = 34 = Heat

I prefer heat to cold - and both in moderation.

C+O+L+D = 34 = H+E+A+T

“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat.” - Lao Tzu

“Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body....” -  Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 

Summer = 89 = Winter

I prefer summer to winter, but fall and spring are most delightful.

S+U+M+M+E+R = 89 = W+I+N+T+E+R

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” - Charles Dickens
 
“After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open skies.”
- Samuel Rutherford
 
“...the spring, the summer,
The chilling autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world
By their increase, now knows not which is which.”
- William Shakespeare

Make Believe = 90 = Reality

Perception is a blend of reality and make believe, intelligence and imagination.

M+A+K+E + B+E+L+I+E+V+E = 90 = R+E+A+L+I+T+Y

“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.” -  Garrison Keillor 
 
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” - Philip K. Dick



Legendary = 91 = Mythical = 91 = Hercules

The story of Hercules is mythical and legendary.

L+E+G+E+N+D+A+R+Y = 91 = M+Y+T+H+I+C+A+L = 91 = H+E+R+C+U+L+E+S

“Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.”
- James Arthur Baldwin 
 
“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ''the rat race'' is not yet final.” -  Hunter S. Thompson

Education = 92 = Training

Education and training are the essential ingredients to improving our quality of life.

E+D+U+C+A+T+I+O+N = 92 = T+R+A+I+N+I+N+G

“By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.” - Plato
 
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.” - Thomas Henry Huxley
 
“We have to do a better job connecting education and job training with the jobs that are being created.”
- Stanley Jackson

Rebellion = 92= Revolt

When tyranny rules, it is time for revolt and rebellion.

R+E+B+E+L+L+I+O+N = 92 = R+E+V+O+L+T

“A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” - Thomas Jefferson
 
“I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.” - Anne Frank

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.” - James Joyce

Guilty = 94 = Innocent = 94 = Judgment

Reserve your judgment! A person is innocent until proven guilty.

G+U+I+L+T+Y = 94 = I+N+N+O+C+E+N+T = 94 = J+U+D+G+M+E+N+T

“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.” - Voltaire
 
“That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.” - Benjamin Franklin

Contract = 94 = Covenant

Some people say that a contract contains requirements, while a covenant is by choice.

C+O+N+T+R+A+C+T = 94 = C+O+V+E+N+A+N+T

“A covenant is defined as a contract. And the terms of a contract have to be negotiated.” - Richard Maloney

“Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.” - Edmund Burke  

“Be mindful always of His covenant, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations, even of the covenant which He made with Abraham and of His oath to Isaac - and He has confirmed the same to Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant - saying, 'To you will I give the Land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.'" - Bible

Absolute = 95 = Indefinite

The opposite of absolute is indefinite.

A+B+S+O+L+U+T+E = 95 = I+N+D+E+F+I+N+I+T+E

“There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.”
- Charles Dudley Warner
 
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth” - Simone de Beauvoir
 
We are not here for an indefinite period of time.” - Richard Boucher

Deterrence = 97 = Peacekeeping

Deterrence was a good peacekeeping strategy during the Cold War, but I question how effective it will be in the future.

D+E+T+E+R+R+E+N+C+E = 97 = P+E+A+C+E+K+E+E+P+I+N+G

"Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian-U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.” - Gen. Charles Horner 
 
“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.” - Hannah Arendt
 
“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.” - John Hersey

Renovate = 100 = Restore

To renovate is to restore.

R+E+N+O+V+A+T+E = 100 = R+E+S+T+O+R+E

“If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day” - Confucius
 
“I restore myself when I'm alone.” - Marilyn Monroe
 
The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.” - Adam Smith