Louis Pasteur:
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Les Brown:
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Arnold H. Glasgow:
Make your life a mission-not an intermission.

Aristotle:
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Elbert Hubbard:
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Helen Keller:
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Cecil B. DeMille:
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That’s dedication.

Stephen Hawking:
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.

Ronald Reagan:
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Denis Waitley:
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

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“Why Ricky Martin’s Coming Out Wasn’t Big News” -  Julia Baird’s recent  Newsweek article – makes the important point that nations with more progressive attitudes toward homosexuality are also happier and healthier.  She writes:

Still, while it may have been a wrenching decision for Martin personally, there was something refreshing about eye rolling replacing homophobic invective. We should want his coming out to not be a big deal in whichever country we might live in. New research shows that tolerance of homosexuality is likely to mean we live in a democratic, developed, wealthy country. It should also mean we live in a well-educated country. And it may well mean we live in a relatively happy country.

She kindly cites my own recent research with Charlotta Mellander and Peter Rentfrow on happiness, socioeconomic structures, and tolerance. And she quotes Will Wilkinson of the Cato Institute on findings from Ronald Ingelhart’s World Values Survey which looks closely at this issue.

As we’ve transitioned from an industrial to a service/information economy, education and the ability to make independent decisions has become more valuable and therefore more widespread. The need of the changing economy for increasingly educated, independent thinkers has helped create less conformist and more open, tolerant citizens.

But the real kicker is this comment from Wharton economist and Freakonomics blogger Justin Wolfers whose own research with Betsey Stevenson notes the close connection between income and the happiness of nations:

[Wolfers]believes that while there is clearly “something associated with economic development that appears to lead to more liberal attitudes to homosexuality,” it is not clear what that is. “I find it hard to believe that the link is simply ‘happiness,’ but one can easily see how development leads to a more enlightened public through all sorts of forces (democracy, education, time for reflection, less of a fight for survival, etc.).”

The key question remains to what extent more open social and cultural values affect economic development as well as being affected by it.

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Based on a Richard Hooker novel of the same name, MASH was released in 1970 as a full-length feature film by 20th Century Fox before experiencing widespread success as a groundbreaking television sitcom in the Fall of 1972. The show’s brilliant integration of drama and comedy made it one of the most celebrated shows in TV history, culminating in an eleven year prime time series stint. The 1983 series finale of MASH made history as the program with the single largest audience in television history, beating out several SuperBowls and the fabled “Who Shot J.R.” episode of Dallas. With the proliferation of new television mediums, it’s a record likely to never be broken…

The sitcom is set in South Korea during American involvement in the Korea War (with M*A*S*H standing for “Mobile Army Surgical Hospital”). Buffered from the front lines by a mountain range and a minefield, the men and women of MASH were tasked with patching up wounded American soldiers. Unique to its genre, the cast of MASH was unusually large. Surgeons Dr. Benjamin Pierce (Alan Alda) and Dr. “Trapper” John McIntyre (Wayne Rogers) play the roles of excellent doctors who enjoy women and booze, while Dr. Frank Burns (Larry Linville) and Nurse Practitioner Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan (Loretta Swit) play foil to the two men’s shenanigans (due to a contract dispute, Rogers’ character was later replaced by Dr. B.J. Hunnicutt – played by Mike Farrell). The character of Frank Burns was also later replaced by Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester (David Ogden Stiers)…

Corporal Max Klinger (Jamie Farr) provides comic relief with his early attempts to procure a discharge by dressing in women’s clothing, and Father Francis Mulcahy (William Christopher) adds flavor to a diverse cast of characters. Also rounding out the cast are Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson), Corporal Walter “Radar” O’Reilly (Gary Burghoff), and Col. Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan)…

The MASH (Season DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere “Too Many Cooks” in which Private Paul Conway boosts the morale of the MASH unit by whipping up gourmet meals in the mess hall. Only Colonel Potter, beset by his own personal problems, fails to enjoy the new atmosphere… Other notable episodes from Season 8 include “Private Finance” in which a South Korean mother misinterprets Klinger’s true intentions toward her daughter when he offers her financial aid, and “Stars and Stripes” in which conflict comes between B.J. and Charles when they’re tasked with writing an article on patient they recently saved…

Below is a list of episodes included on the MASH (Season DVD:

Episode 170 (Too Many Cooks) Air Date: 09-17-1979

Episode 171 (Are You Now, Margaret?) Air Date: 09-24-1979

Episode 172 (Guerilla My Dreams) Air Date: 10-01-1979

Episode 173 (Good-Bye Radar: Part 1) Air Date: 10-08-1979

Episode 174 (Good-Bye Radar: Part 2) Air Date: 10-15-1979

Episode 175 (Period of Adjustment) Air Date: 10-22-1979

Episode 176 (Nurse Doctor) Air Date: 10-29-1979

Episode 177 (Private Finance) Air Date: 11-05-1979

Episode 178 (Mr. and Mrs. Who?) Air Date: 11-12-1979

Episode 179 (The Yalu Brick Road) Air Date: 11-19-1979

Episode 180 (Life Time) Air Date: 11-26-1979

Episode 181 (Dear Uncle Abdul) Air Date: 12-03-1979

Episode 182 (Captain’s Outrageous) Air Date: 12-10-1979

Episode 183 (Stars and Stripes) Air Date: 12-17-1979

Episode 184 (Yessir, That’s Our Baby) Air Date: 12-31-1979

Episode 185 (Bottle Fatigue) Air Date: 01-07-1980

Episode 186 (Heal Thyself) Air Date: 01-14-1980

Episode 187 (Old Soldiers) Air Date: 01-21-1980

Episode 188 (Morale Victory) Air Date: 01-28-1980

Episode 189 (Lend a Hand) Air Date: 02-04-1980

Episode 190 (Goodbye, Cruel World) Air Date: 02-11-1980

Episode 191 (Dreams) Air Date: 02-18-1980

Episode 192 (War Co-Respondent) Air Date: 03-03-1980

Episode 193 (Back Pay) Air Date: 03-10-1980

Episode 194 (April Fools) Air Date: 03-24-1980

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Jerry Springer is reinventing himself again, this time as host of a dating game series.

“Baggage,” debuting April 19 on the Game Show Network, gives three contestants the chance to win the eye of a prospective date.

The hitch: Contestants have to reveal their faults and foibles.

Players will carry suitcases on stage to represent the baggage they’ll confess to and defend. After the contestants are pared down to one, the potential date must own up to a fault of his or her own.

Suitors include a shoplifter, a woman who gets psychic advice and a control freak.

Springer, 66, calls “Baggage” a family friendly show that’s “just fun and lighthearted. There’s no life-changing issues.

“I’m like the crazy old uncle. People feel comfortable telling me their secrets, that I won’t be judgmental.”

Love-hate relationship

Jennifer Love Hewitt split up with her “Ghost Whisperer” co-star, Jamie Kennedy, just as she was about to embark on a tour promoting her new book about relationships.

Still, she went ahead with the publicity tour for “The Day I Shot Cupid: My Name is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I’m a Love-Aholic.”

And she’s embracing one of its lessons: Allow yourself 72 hours to wallow after a breakup. Then move forward.

“Put your big girl pants on and move on,” Hewitt says. “Seventy-two hours is an appropriate time. After that you start to smell and your friends don’t want to talk to you.”

The birthday bunch

Actor Leonard Nimoy is 79. Actor Alan Arkin is 76. Actor James Caan is 70. Singer Diana Ross is 66. Singer Steven Tyler is 62. Actress Vicki Lawrence is 61. Actor Martin Short is 60. TV host Leeza Gibbons is 53. Actress Jennifer Grey is 50. Singer Kenny Chesney is 42. Actor T.R. Knight is 37. Actress Keira Knightley is 25.

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