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“There are only two sorts of people on this planet. Those who consume culture and those who create it.”
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Achilles’ Calcaneal
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Some risks pose the probability of losing everything against the possibility of winning everything before that happens.
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Who Goes There?
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Confused about good and evil? Consider this modern cancellation of Heaven and Hell and see where it takes you.
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Cosmos Calling
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If ‘some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them,’ what is your response when the needed thing just needs doing?
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The Scarlet Number
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Nothing presses on greatness harder than the expectation of more greatness still.
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Concrete Turtles
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“With all due respect to journalists,” my father told me at an impressionable age, “lawyers hang their mistakes, doctors bury theirs, but architects and engineers fix theirs.”
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10,000 & One: The Under-imagined Chasm Between the Masterful and the Merely Dull
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“You say you’ve been at this for five years,” Jack surmised. “But here’s the question I need you to consider: Do you have five years of experience or merely a single year of experience five times?”
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Is Your Coffee Cold?
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That saying about being only as strong as your greatness weakness? It’s for people who don’t know where to find their weakest strength.
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Negotiating with Ghosts
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How do you change an institution set in motion long before your time?
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Got Mystery? (Solve for U.)
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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —William (the Alchemist?) Shakespeare
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Got Flash? (Decide Already!)
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Think the national debt is high? Try adding up your unmade decisions.
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Got Gut? (Try Not to Spill It.)
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When someone tells you it’s not personal but only business, do they believe their own rhetoric? Or merely hide behind an unreliable cliché?
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Got Wit? (Keep It Under Your Hat.)
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These days, we often hear the phrase, “If you see something, say something.” But does the same admonition hold for when we KNOW something?
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Got Bone? (Break a Leg!)
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Aquinas argues deliberate will. Descartes thinks and, therefore, is. Celine belts My Heart Will Go On. But sometimes, the body just does stuff.
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Got Time? (Get Rid of It!)
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Only by taking the clock out of the equation can we isolate who we are long enough to change.
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Got Self? Got Future? (Got Duck Food?)
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The thing to remember about the future is that it often comes at us first.
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Long Division
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And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. Genesis Chapter 1 Verse 7
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What Uncritically Assimilated Worldviews Are You Dismantling?
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If the unexamined life is not worth living, how, then, to examine it?