WordAddition

The Laws of Thought

The laws of thought, in all its processes of conception and of reasoning, in all those operations of which language is the expression or the instrument, are of the same kind as are the laws of the acknowledged process of Mathematics. - George Boole

Although on its surface, reality may seem arbitrary and chaotic, beneath its surface, the subtle workings and laws of the universe - in all their various manifestations - are known to be logical, organized and meticulously arranged.

It is the very trait which gives us an opportunity to be human - free will - which allows us to be distracted and prevented from seeing the sublime order which pervades the universe.

Likewise, it is only our free will and intelligence, when properly guided and focused, which enables us to most consciously perceive the true nature of reality.

A=1  B=2  C=3  D=4  E=5  F=6  G=7  H=8  I=9  J=10  K=11  L=12  M=13  N=14  O=15  P=16  Q=17  R=18  S=19  T=20  U=21  V=22  W=23  X=24  Y=25  Z=26

Lock = 41 = Key

What is a lock without a key?

For our first Word Addition, we will unlock the key of language and numbers.

L+O+C+K = 41 = K+E+Y

“A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.” - Paul Valery

“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.” - Richard Bach

“Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.” - Anthony D'Angelo

Ocean = 38 = Sand = 38 = Tide

The ocean rises and falls with the tide - creating, shifting and washing the sand.

O+C+E+A+N = 38 = S+A+N+D = 38 = T+I+D+E

“Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.” - Saint Augustine

 “The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very” - Thomas Carlyle

“Sometimes it feels like we're shoveling sand against the tide. We shovel some bad guys out of the way, and there's some new and younger and more energetic ones to take their place.” - Larry Smith

Moan = 43 = Sigh = 43 = Woe

"Woe is me!" I sigh and moan.

M+O+A+N = 43 = S+I+G+H = 43 = W+O+E

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.
- William Shakespeare 

Faith = 44 = Hope

Faith and hope are the light at the end of the tunnel.

F+A+I+T+H = 44 = H+O+P+E

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen keller
 
“If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.” - Jacques Cousteau
 
“I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.” - Mahatma Gandhi
 
"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.” - Thornton Wilder

“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.” - Pearl S. Buck
 
“Hope is the parent of faith.” - Cyrus A. Bartol
 
"Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.”
- Herbert Agar

Cheese = 45 = Milk

Cheese is made from milk.

C+H+E+E+S+E = 45 =M+I+L+K

“Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk” - James Joyce

“Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.” - Clifton Fadiman

“But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.” - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Chaos = 46 = Logic, Chaotic = 59 = Logical

Some people spend their lives trying to discover the logic behind the chaos, while others try to find the chaos behind the logic.

C+H+A+O+S = 46 = L+O+G+I+C

C=H+A+O+T+I+C  = 59 = L+O+G+I+C+A+L

“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.” - Ambrose Bierce
 
“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory” - Alfred North Whitehead

“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order” - Douglas Hostadter

“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.” -  Albert Einstein

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” - Albert Einstein

Medical = 47 = Cure

We are all looking for a medical cure - or any cure at all!

M+E+D+I+C+A+L = 47 =C+U+R+E

“Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.”
-  Michael J. Fox

“There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.” - Ashley Montagu

“By taking a course like this, medical students may or may not learn how to better cure medical problems like this. But they should be better able to explain the deep origins of disease to their patients and become better doctors in the end.” - Christopher Beard

Laugh = 49 = Weep

It is good and healthy to laugh and good and healthy to weep. When I laugh I find my heart, and when I weep I find my soul.

L+A+U+G+H = 49 = W+E+E+P

"And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep." - George Gordon Byron

“Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.” - Golda Meir

"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them." - Baruch Spinoza

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.” - Joey Lauren Adams

America = 50

America has 50 States.

A+M+E+R+I+C+A = 50

"A U.S. state is any one of 50 subnational entities of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government (four states use the official title of commonwealth rather than state)."  - Wikipedia

Wash = 51 = Soap

Wash you hands and use soap!

W+A+S+H = 51 = S+O+A+P

“We don't want to panic the public, ... We need to let the public know what to do if it (an outbreak) occurs. Get vaccinated. Practice good hygiene measures, such as hand washing with soap. Don't go to work if you're sick because you could spread the virus to other workers.” - Gregory Gray
     
“Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.” - Howard Hughes
 
“Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap” - Don Rickles

Coffin = 53 = Grave

Not one of my favorite topics - the coffin and the grave.

C+O+F+F+I+N = 53 = G+R+A+V+E

“The silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed” - Kahlil Gibran

Breath = 54 = Lung

I was so surprised, it seemed as though I took a separate breath with each lung.

B+R+E+A+T+H = 54 = L+U+N+G

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” - Crowfoot 
 
“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.” - Nicolas Cage
 
"I will have naught to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath” - Aesop

“The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you” - George Savile

Calendar = 58 = Zodiac

Time is defined by the cycles of the moon, earth, sun and stars.

C+A+L+E+N+D+A+R = 58 = Z+O+D+I+A+C

“I've been on a calendar, but never on time.” - Marilyn Monroe
 
"It is a wise person who rules the stars, a fool who is ruled by them." - Darrell Martinie ("The Cosmic Muffin") 

"The theoretical beginning of Aries is the moment of vernal equinox, and all other dates shift accordingly. The precise Gregorian times and dates vary slightly from year to year as the Gregorian calendar shifts relative to the tropical year." - Wikipedia

Glass = 58 = Fragile

Glass is fragile.

G+L+A+S+S = 58 = F+R+A+G+I+L+E

“Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.”
 
“I view love through fragile glass.” - Derek Shanks (Photographer)
 
"A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in LAURA: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting."
- Tennessee Williams

Holy = 60 = Pure

Everything is holy, everything is pure.

H+O+L+Y = 60 = P+U+R+E

“Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man...” - Denis Diderot 
 
“And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.”
- Exodus 37:29
 
“For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.” - George B. Leonard

Scent = 61 = Smell

I love scents but dislike smells.

S+C+E+N+T = 61 = S+M+E+L+L

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”
-  Diane Ackerman
 
“But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air.” - William Shakespeare
 
“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”
- Vladimir Nabokov

Disease = 62= Plague = 62 = Cholera

Cholera is a terrible disease, but with quick diagnosis it can be treated and need not become a plague.

D+I+S+E+A+S+E = 62 = P+L+A+G+U+E = 62 = C+H+O+L+E+R+A

“America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach for what once seemed unattainable. Here they have tried to make dreams come true. Yet now... we are threatened by a new and particularly American menace. It is not the menace of class war, of ideology, of poverty, of disease, of illiteracy, or demagoguery, or of tyranny, though these now plague most of the world. It is the menace of unreality.” -  Daniel J. Boorstin
 
“Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.”
-  Sean O'Casey 
 
“That's because we looked at what happened in the 1918 pandemic. That caused the greatest number of deaths ever recorded from an infectious disease in a single year, by far. More than the black plague, more than any other infectious disease,” - Dick Thompson

Color = 63 = Tint

A tint is a color with a splash of white.

C+O+L+O+R = 63 = T+I+N+T

“The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.”
- Vincent van Gogh

“Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.” - Herman Melville

“When I bring you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints.”- Rabindranath Tagore

Finite = 63 = Limit

When we breach the limit of the finite, we enter the realm of the infinite.

F+I+N+I+T+E = 63 = L+I+M+I+T

“The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this ... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite." - Galileo 
 
“The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.” -  Rabindranath Tagore

“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens” - Alphonse de Lamartine

Divine = 63 = Godly

That which is without limit and not finite is godly and divine.

D+I+V+I+N+E = 63 = G+O+D+L+Y

"We pray for the leaders in our government on the national and local level; we pray that God will give them Godly wisdom because they have to make tough decisions and sometimes they need some divine help. We pray for the pastors in our area. A lot of times they're under a very stressful load and they're really the unsung heroes of our community, so we need to pray for them. And we also pray for all of our federal leaders." - Gary Teague
 
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.” - Albert Einstein

Israel = 64 = Zion

God showed Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (Israel) and his descendants (the Children of Israel) a place, Zion.

I+S+R+A+E+L = 64 = Z+I+O+N

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, unto King Solomon in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the City of David which is Zion. - Bible
 
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! - Bible
 
Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee. - Bible
 
Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. - Bible

Gambling = 65 = Poker

Poker is a popular form of gambling.

G+A+M+B+L+I+N+G = 65 = P+O+K+E+R

“Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.” - Al Alvarez
 
“We're going through a phase in history where the only thing that can stop poker from being the most popular form of gambling (slots excepted) is a big scandal,” - Howard Schwartz 
 
“The popularity of poker is absolutely phenomenal. It is head and shoulders over other types of college gambling.” - Elizabeth George
 
“Fueled by a poker craze, the growth of broadband, and television coverage, online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream.” - Ben Macklin

Family = 66 = Mankind

Mankind is a family.

F+A+M+I+L+Y = 66 = M+A+N+K+I+N+D

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.” - George Bernard Shaw 
 
“We must make sure that prices are reasonable, that the whole family of mankind can enjoy the fruits of production. Things should operate in such a way as to make rich people richer and poor people richer, too, as opposed to making rich people richer and poor people poorer.” -  Tao Xinliang
 
“'I'll tell you what you can expect,' he said at our kickoff luncheon just a few days later. 'You can expect anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your own children. You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man. And you could believe that his abiding ambitions were to pass on to his family the true richness of the inheritance he received from his father, the bookmaker: The knowledge and love and fear of God, and second, to give you a Super Bowl winner.'” -  John Mara

Iranian = 66 = Islamic

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 is also know as the Islamic Revolution.

I+R+A+N+I+A+N = 66 = I+S+L+A+M+I+C

“Given the support of Iranian people, no leader will be able to retreat in the nuclear energy sphere in this country. The Islamic Republic of Iran detests any threats in the sphere of protection of its legal rights in the nuclear research.”
- Ali Larijani 
 
“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers retreat over the nuclear issue ... as breaking the country's independence which will impose huge costs on the Iranian nation.” -  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Curse = 66 = Swear

Don't swear and don't curse!

C+U+R+S+E = 66 = S+W+E+A+R

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it” -  George Washington
 
“And you will leave your name as a curse for my chosen, for the Lord God will slay you and call his servants by another name. He who blesses himself on the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth, and he that swears on the earth shall swear by the God of truth, because the earlier troubles are forgotten and because they are hid from my eyes. For, behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth, and the earlier things shall not be remembered nor come into mind."
- Bible

Rhyme = 69 = Verse

I like rhyme in verse.

R+H+Y+M+E = 69 = V+E+R+S+E

What's with rhyming verse?" you ask.
"To rhyme each line is such a task!"
- Aunt Sue Loughry

“But touch me, and no minister so sore; Whoever offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song.” - Alexander Pope
 
“RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguished from prose, mostly dull. Usually (and wickedly) spelled 'rhyme.'”
- Ambrose Bierce 
 

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