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                                                         Listen to learn

You don't need to impress anyone

Be patient and persistent

Luck works if hard work runs

Don't bother what other people think

Don't make assumptions

Believe in yourself

Read books

Respect people the way you would like to be respected

No body care

Learn to love yourself

Take time to learn who you are

No work is beneath you

The more you give the more you receive

Do not be afraid to take risks

Don't make decisions when emotional

Start meditating

Don't' take the easy road

Out your best foot forward

You quit, you loose, you fail

Learn something new everyday

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” – Lemony Snicket

“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx

“‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” – Mark Twain

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” – Mortimer J. Adler

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller

“Reading brings us unknown friends” – Honoré de Balzac

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Rum Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• For the Rum Cake:
• 1/2 cup lightly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
• 1 box yellow cake mix
• 1 3.4-ounce package vanilla cook-and-serve pudding mix
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup canola oil
• 1/2 cup dark rum
• For the Glaze:
• 3/4 cup 1 1/2 sticks butter
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 3/4 cup dark rum

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 325º F and thoroughly grease a Bundt pan. Sprinkle the brown sugar and chopped pecans in the bottom of the pan. This will serve as the topping of the cake when the cake is turned out of the pan.
• Add cake mix and pudding mix to the bowl of an electric mixer. Crack in the eggs and add water, canola oil, and rum, Mix the batter until it is smooth and totally combined.
• Pour batter into the prepared Bundt pan and bake the cake for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a skewer or long toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake and removed.
• When the cake has about 10 minutes remaining cooking time, make the glaze.
• Melt the butter and sugar together in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat. Then add water and bring the mixture to a boil for 4 to 5 minutes, or until thick. Carefully add the rum to the mixture and cook for 1 more minute. (Take care when adding the alcohol to the mixture, especially if cooking over an open flame.)
• Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
• Use a skewer or long toothpick and poke holes all over the surface of the cake.
• Drizzle half the glaze over the surface of the cake, then let the cake sit for about 10 to 15 minutes to allow the cake to absorb the glaze.
• Carefully invert the cake onto a serving platter and very slowly drizzle the rest of the glaze over the top of the cake, giving the cake a chance to absorb as much as possible.
• Let the cake sit for a couple of hours to make sure it's really moist and rummy.

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