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Journalist Finds One Universal Joke: Making Fun of Others
Lance Morrow, an award-winning journalist with Time magazine, once set out to write an article asking if there was one universal joke, told everywhere ...
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Columnist David Brooks Reflects on Overconfidence
"We're an overconfident species," contends New York Times columnist David Brooks. Brooks calls it a "magnification of the self," ...
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Sir Edmund Hilary Demonstrates Humility
In his book Humilitas, pastor John Dickson illustrates the beauty of humility in the life of Sir Edmund Hillary. In 1953 Hillary conquered Mount Everest ...
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Navy SEALs Succeed by Focusing on Others
The elite team of Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, is still largely shrouded in mystery. But in a recent article in The Wall Street ...
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Writer Tries to Go One Month Without Saying Hurtful Words
We've all heard the old adage, "If you can't find anything nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all." In an article ...
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Overconfident Naval Officer Loses His Way in the Fog
During a 1923 training exercise, a naval destroyer called the USS Delphy led a flotilla of seven vessels down the California coast. The USS Delphy was ...
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Research Shows We Inflate Our Good Qualities
Here's some good news: if you're like most people, you're way above average—at almost everything. Psychologists call this the state ...
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President Bush Forgives a Staffer Caught in Plagiarism
In 2001 Tim Goeglein started running the White House Office of Public Liaison, providing him almost daily access to then President George Bush. All of ...
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A Lesson on Community from The Lord of the Rings
A lot has been said about the little brotherhood of hobbits tasked with saving Middle Earth in The Lord of The Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Much of ...
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Frederick Buechner Reflects on the Magi and Herod
In a playful lexicon of religious terms entitled Peculiar Treasures, author Frederick Buechner captures well the interesting interplay of the stories ...
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