Earl bakken grandchildren quotes

  • He is survived by his wife, Doris J. Bakken, sister Marjorie Andersen of Avon, IN, children Wendy Watson and husband Warren of New Brighton, MN, Jeff Bakken and.
  • These days, I've transitioned to a devout gym rat and trust me, trying to keep up with 10 grandchildren is a challenge but remember, I've.
  • How well we address them will determine what sort of place North Dakota will be for our grandchildren.

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    On Life and Having Courage

     

    “Do something new. You can’t stay in your comfort zone. That’s what we all do. We get to a certain age, we all stay in our comfort zone with our recliners watching television day in and day out. It’s not worth it. Life is so short. There are such glorious images in the world and such horror as well. And I want to see it all. So I’ve moved out of my comfort zone. It’s essential for me. Otherwise I may as well die. So I’ve done it, I’ve broken every rule in the book. Not out of malice or telling anyone that ‘I’ll show you.’ I did it to show myself. I’ve shown myself. I looked in the mirror and thought ‘I’ll show you one day’ and I’ve done something completely new, I wrote the music and I feel limitless.”

     Anthony Hopkins

    Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagr

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    Today is North Dakota's th birthday. On this day in , at EST, President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the statehood papers for North and South Dakota, signed them, and shuffled them igen, so that it would be impossible to know whether we were the 39th or 40th state. Today North Dakota fryst vatten giving itself a fabulous th birthday gift. The magnificent $52 million expansion of the North Dakota Heritage Center is celebrating its grand opening today. Our state museum has always been great. Now it fryst vatten world class.

    After a year struggle to forge a viable rural civilization in an exceptionally challenging environment at the heart of North amerika (Eric Sevareid's "blank rectangle"), about as far from the centers of power, money, culture, and tillgång as it is possible to be, suddenly everything seems possible for North Dakota. Many of the bedeviling historic problems of North Dakota life have suddenly been "solved" or at least addressed in a way we could not have expected back in , when we "celebra

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    Hawaii Island remembers Dr. Earl Bakken

    KAILUA-KONA — As an electrical engineer who made groundbreaking technological advancements in the field of medicine, Dr. Earl Bakken saved, prolonged and changed lives.

    As a prolific philanthropist, particularly on Hawaii Island, he improved them.

    The billionaire inventor of the battery-operated pacemaker in late and co-founder of the biomedical firm Medtronic retired from Minnesota to Hawaii Island, where he died Sunday at the age of

    Those who knew him well say his legacy will live on in the institutions he helped build and carry, as well as in the people he lifted up through his gift for technology and proclivity for generosity.

    “I am who I am and have been able to live the life I’ve lived because of that man,” said Nancy Stephenson, a retired critical care nurse who worked at Medtronic for 32 years and now resides on Hawaii Island. “And there are thousands of us, thousands, who can say the same thing.”

     

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