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  • 5 ‘Lincoln’ Quotes Old Abe Never Said

    5 ‘Lincoln’ Quotes Old Abe Never Said1

    If you’ve visited Ford’s Theatre, you’ve likely seen the 34-foot tower of books on Abraham Lincoln. The tower, designed to symbolize that the final word on America’s 16th president will never be written, was constructed with some 6,800 books – just a fraction of the 15,000 titles written on Lincoln. (An admitted Lincolnphile, my personal

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  • 40 Million Americans Are Living in Poverty? FALSE

    40 Million Americans Are Living in Poverty? FALSE0

    According to Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, there is very little that is good about America. Alston recently released a statement chock full of misleading statistics that are being bandied about by people like former Obama official Andy Slavitt, who repeated one of Alston’s claims on his

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  • 4 Ways to Talk to Boring People

    4 Ways to Talk to Boring People0

    If, like myself, you are an incurable snot, you probably often find yourself trapped in hopelessly boring conversations with hopelessly boring people. These, “boring people” could be friends, relatives, coworkers – anyone whom social standards (and basic human decency) oblige you to regularly engage in small-talk. However, even as you shrivel up inside as one

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  • 4 Ways to Navigate Toddler Meltdowns While Shopping

    4 Ways to Navigate Toddler Meltdowns While Shopping0

    What’s worse than being stuck in a long line at the supermarket? Being stuck in a long line at the supermarket while your child is having a meltdown. Every parent has been there, and it’s every parent’s worst nightmare. My kids are four and two – in other words, prime ages for throwing fits in

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  • 4 Ways to Make a Really Bad First Impression

    4 Ways to Make a Really Bad First Impression0

    There is a hilarious scene in the Oscar-winning film La La Land that shows the easiest way to make a terrible first impression. Emma Stone’s character Mia arrives at a pool party and is introduced to a man named Carlo. The conversation begins fine. Carlo repeats Mia’s name, demonstrating that he’s paying attention. He firmly

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  • 4 Ways to Get Beyond Superficial Conversation

    4 Ways to Get Beyond Superficial Conversation0

    Several weeks ago, Intellectual Takeout posted a piece about the exhausting nature of superficial conversation. According to this piece: “Human beings are those whose nature is to ask deeper questions, and we primarily do this through our relationships with others. When these relationships are dominated by superficial conversations, we are not acting according to our

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