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Coffee makes you
enthusiastic.
There is no such thing as sleep
deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.
~ Richard Simmons
Exercise enthusiast, diet
enthusiast, practical joke enthusiast, tv show enthusiast, 50's music
enthusiast, ....
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Real
Treasure
Becca, Cheryl and Ed
This really needs to be said
Even though you may not
Want to hear it.
You help make people’s day
In a most delightful way
And it’s not the coffee
Or the things you serve
Becca in her nook
Reading her latest book
Brings that smile
That always warms your heart
How does Cheryl do it?
Surely it’s intuit
To know your name
At 6AM is crazy!
Ed’s the quiet guy
Seemingly coy and shy
But has this great big heart
That loves to serve
The three of you together
Makes our day much better
So thank from the bottom
Of our hearts
The coffee’s always good
But it should be understood
The real treasure is
Becca, Cheryl and Ed
~ Randy Catlett
Co-Director, All Nations
Ministry
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Higher Math
“A mathematician is a machine for turning
coffee into theorems.”
~ Alfréd Rényi
and Paul Erdős
Hungarian mathematicians who made
contributions in combinatorics and graph theory but mostly in probability
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The Dream
When I'm away at school all week,
I dream about The 'Bean.
I dream about the old red floors
and friendly faces smiling at me.
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And whenever I get a chance to come home,
And I see the sign for Main Street,
My heart beats faster as I think ahead
To a Hard Bean comfy seat.
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Now I don't drink no coffee,
and I don't drink no tea,
But what I fancy is good hot chocolate,
Made by my sis’ for me.
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I’ll stand at the counter, catch up with Becca,
Then grab my amazing drink.
I’ll sit right by the fireplace
To read a book or just think.
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And just when life seems perfect,
My alarm makes the picture crack
And I'll go through the day looking forward
To the dream I'll live once I'm back.
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by Annie Wills
Senior at University of Central Missouri
Musician/Composer,
Grandview, MO
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…..as complete exhaustion sets in I am grateful for my mother who brought me
dinner, for my father who stopped by the shop and helped me wash dishes, and
for my friends who have let me vent, given me ideas, and given me hope. I am
grateful for the customers without whom I could not pay my mortgage this
month.
And, of course, I am thankful for that little goat who danced on a hill in
Ethiopia when he discovered those dark, hard beans; and whoever decided
coffee was indescribable with chocolate. To these I applaud for helping me
get through a very hectic day! Your Barista on a very hectic day. (to
her loyal HardBean e-news subscribers)
~ Rebecca
Wills, Young Entrepreneur & Equestrian,
Grandview, MO |
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It’s in the Tea
For all of you who like the
brew
I don’t know what to say
Latté, Mocha, Skinny this
‘Rebecca, save my day!’
I love to sing the praises of
The Hard Bean coffee shop
With movies, art and fellowship
And even some bebop
But one thing that I must tell all
And it will set you free
I want you all to know the fact
That, REAL MEN DRINK TEA!!
~ Randy Catlett
Co-Director, All Nations
Family, Inc., Grandview, MO
www.AllNations.us
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Happy Birthday Hard Bean!
Happy Birthday to you
Love the mocha and the view
whether coffee, treat or just lunch
you’re the friendliest bunch -
. . . . and the music's great, too.
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Marilyn Siegel, Urban
Development Consultant, FWI |
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You can't have too much coffee.
“…they put coffee in their coffee in Brazil.”
~ from The Coffee
Song by Frank Sinatra |
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The Bean
Roasted dark and silky smooth,
I'm from a warmer climate.
Full of taste that fills your senses,
I'm ground to please your palette.
Meet a friend; listen deeply.
Gaze at art; breathe it in.
Warm your center.
Wake your eyes.
Pause
and have a cup of me.
~ Janelle Smith
Smith Visual Communication Arts |
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Coffee heightens your intelligence.
If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it
is the intelligent beverage.
~
Sydney Smith
18th century English essayist |
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Great coffee comes from shiny new machines.
The curve of its lines, like a gleaming kiss,
The steam of its expression, a whispering hiss,
How do the Italians know to make this…
A machine that makes my mocha-milk bliss?
Glossy shine
Silver matte
Stainless sparkle
Midnight solid
Dispense, dispense your inspiration!
Bellissima!
~ Janelle Smith
President and CEO of Smith Visuals,
Loyal HardBean Customer
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Coffee is inspiring.
Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore,
Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore.
Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip,
Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip.
~ Pope Leo XII |
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Coffee is electrical.
Coffee affects the diaphragm and the plexus of the stomach,
from which it reaches the brain by barely perceptible radiations that escape
complete analysis; that aside, we may surmise that our primary nervous flux
conducts an electricity emitted by coffee when we drink it. Coffee's power
changes over time. [Italian composer Gioacchino] Rossini has personally
experienced some of these effects as, of course, have I. "Coffee," Rossini
told me, "is an affair of fifteen or twenty days; just the right amount of
time, fortunately, to write an opera." This is true. But the length of time
during which one can enjoy the benefits of coffee can be extended.
~
Honore de Balzac
From: The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee |

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Coffee is one of life's great essentials.
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a
genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently
view it as some kind of recreational activity.
~ Dave Barry
Pulitzer Prize winning humor
columnist
for the Miami Herald |
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Coffee is good for you.
Experts now generally agree that there is no consistent
scientific evidence to prove coffee is detrimental to your health ... A
recent study at the University of California at Davis even suggests that
coffee may be good for you.
~ Denise Webb
Chief Information Officer
Wisconsin Dept of Health and
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Wake up and smell the coffee.
Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast
coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
Eighteenth century enlightened
philosopher |
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Coffee gives you a song.
I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.
~ Harry Mahtar
Enigmatic cultural icon |

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Morning Coffee (a
concrete poem)
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hot comfort
slides easily
on sweet
creamy notes
down my
throat
even the last
drop is good
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by Heather Trent Beers
Grandview wife, mother and
writer |
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Coffee bathes you in luxury.
Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be
considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without
intoxication; and the pleasing flow of spirits which it occasions...is never
followed by sadness, languor or debility.
~ Benjamin Franklin |

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Coffee Inspires Poetry
Our darling Becca
Who is quite a perfecta
Came from the Jersey Shore
And rather than play
Opened the Hard Bean one day
Then became our Mocha Mecca
Because you see
Nobody blends it like Becca
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Bill Smith of Grandview, MO, Poet & Wine Guy
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Coffee brings clarity to life.
O Coffee, thou dost dispel all care,
thou art the object of desire to the scholar.
Arabic Poem 1511 |
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Coffee makes you brilliant.
The powers of a man's mind are
directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.
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Sir James Mackintosh
Scottish jurist,
historian and philosopher |
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Coffee satisfies.
Actually, this seems to be the basic
need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of
coffee.
~
Alexander King
British scientist
US Medal of Freedom recipient
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Coffee attracts the best of life.
Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong.
~Pan-American Coffee Bureau |
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Coffee - The original health drink.
Coffee - the drink that comforteth the brain and heart and helpeth
digestion.
~Sir
Francis Bacon |
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Coffee is healing.
Coffee is balm to the heart and spirit.
~
Giuseppe Verdi
Celebrated composer of many operas
including
Rigoletto, Aida and La Traviata |
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Coffee will give you long life.
The morning cup of Café Noir is an integral part of the life of a Creole
household. The Creoles hold as a physiological fact that this custom
contributes to longevity, and point, day after day, to examples of old men
and women of fourscore, and over, who attest to the powerful aid they have
received through life from a good, fragrant cup of coffee in the early
morning.”
The Picayune Creole Cook
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Coffee makes you witty.
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty:
at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not
believe himself four times wittier than when he entered it…
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
a French social commentator and political
thinker who lived during the Enlightenment. He is famous for his
articulation of the theory of separation of powers, taken for granted in
modern discussions of government and implemented in many constitutions
throughout the world.
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Coffee separates man from the animals (especially
dead ones).
"Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat."
~Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
timeless composer in
The Coffee Cantata
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Coffee empowers you to do
amazing
things.
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can
thread a sewing machine while it's running.
~Jeff Bezos
visionary and
Amazon founder |
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Coffee will get your day
started.
Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.
~Drew Sirtors |

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Coffee will give you
sweetness.
No coffee can be good in the mouth that
does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
~Henry Ward Beecher
19th century theologian |
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Coffee will make you debonair.
Suave molecules of
Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought
receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes easier and you will sit
down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body
and afford you a calm, delicious night.
~Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de
Benevente
Persistent French diplomat under Louis XVI,
Napoleon I, Louis XVIII and Louis-Phillipe |
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Coffee will inspire you.
A fig for partridges and quails,
ye dainties I know nothing of ye;
But on the highest mount in Wales
Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
~ Jonathan Swift
Eighteenth century Irish poet, satirist and pamphleteer.
Author of Gulliver's Travels |
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Coffee will make you a
success.
Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount
of coffee.
~ Stephanie Piro (cartoonist) |
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Coffee will make you wise.
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of
coffee's frothy goodness.
~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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Coffee is praised from the
final frontier.
Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised.
~ Star Trek: Voyager
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Coffee will make you strong.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it
which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot
be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891 |
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Coffee will make you smart.
There's nothing like a cup of coffee to stimulate the
brain cells.
Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Three Garridebs. |

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Coffee Haiku
Foam roses are etched
In velvet, golden crema
Afterwards, jitters.
Audri
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