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November 22, 2009 08:21 AM EST --
You Need It To Live, But Too Much Will Kill You
Seldom in history has a product worn the horns of the Devil and the wings of an angel at the same time. Loved and respected because it provides . . .
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November 18, 2009 12:09 PM EST --
Still Waiting For The Light To Change
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past. - Miguel de Unamuno, writer and philosopher (1864-1936)
Sometimes all we . . .
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October 21, 2009 07:08 AM EDT --
What A Relationship Needs To Succeed
"If we were endowed with the same biological mating pattern as the [pair-bonding] goose, there could be no polygamy, no promiscuity, no celibacy, no harems, no group . . .
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October 10, 2009 04:12 PM EDT --
Your Life In A Day
With the passage of time, all such actions or lack of them, appear less significant. And anyway, since the cells in our body die and are renewed, replaced by different ones, we do . . .
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October 04, 2009 05:42 PM EDT --
Our Own Shame
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde , writer (1854-1900)
This would apply today to television and movies as well.
Instead . . .
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September 25, 2009 07:04 AM EDT --
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James , American psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910)
The Journey: Yours, . . .
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September 22, 2009 07:40 PM EDT --
How Public Schools Fail Us Tragically
"The social, emotional and spiritual are part of a child's connection with the world." - Mary Paradis, director of development at the Vancouver Waldorf . . .
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September 14, 2009 09:58 AM EDT --
Interesting Stuff About Movies
No, despite what many believe, Thomas Edison did not invent the movie projector. He "bought" invention rights.
The first celluloid roll film came into being . . .
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August 23, 2009 08:00 AM EDT --
Living Beyond Your Life Today
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It's the one who won't be taken . . .
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August 20, 2009 04:10 PM EDT --
Why You Are Here
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are . . .
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August 15, 2009 06:39 PM EDT --
Who Is An Atheist?
"Samuel [Champlain] has seen other men of the church become as this one: to them, their own insight becomes dogma. Indeed it seems a perversion common to all leadership..." - The . . .
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August 13, 2009 08:10 PM EDT --
When Should Children Be Taught Certain Facts and Skills?
In response to an article I wrote recently about teaching information, facts and skills to children much earlier than most adults think . . .
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August 11, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
The Value of Power
While that may seem like a strange title, think about it. What is power? When people seek power or have power, what is it they seek or have?
How do we know if we have or . . .
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July 25, 2009 08:14 PM EDT --
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. - Simone Weil , French philosopher, mystic, activist (1909-1943)
I have never met a person who, as a child, wanted to grow up to be a criminal, a drug . . .
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July 14, 2009 10:03 AM EDT --
ADHD: You or Someone You Love Could Have It and Not Know It
My sister had Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) all her life and took it to her grave. I might have had it, but a strange . . .
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July 01, 2009 05:32 PM EDT --
Hydrogen Peroxide: Truth, Lies and Rumours
Is it a miracle drug or a carcinogenic poison peddled freely and propagandized openly on the internet? Opinions differ greatly, though (thankfully) not violently, . . .
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June 28, 2009 03:59 PM EDT --
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Albert Einstein
Do you wonder sometimes if Einstein didn't get sucked into a black hole somewhere and spewed out covered in . . .
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May 24, 2009 07:06 AM EDT --
Stuff You Should Know About Money
First of all, money does not have and was never intended to have any intrinsic value. Anyone who values money for its own sake ("The king is in his counting house . . .
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May 14, 2009 05:27 PM EDT --
Why the Economy Is As Undependable As the Weather
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? - Kelvin Throop III, . . .
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April 21, 2009 06:29 PM EDT --
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
- Don Marquis, American humorist, writer (1878-1937)
This applies more to the Western part . . .
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