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  • The 3 Basic Ingredients Needed for Life Happiness

    The 3 Basic Ingredients Needed for Life Happiness0

    One of the overarching desires in life – whether we admit it or not – is to simply be happy. We know it’s not always feasible or realistic, yet it’s something we desire on some level—for ourselves, our spouses, and most especially, our children. Unfortunately, most of America isn’t achieving that desired happiness. The 2017

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  • Learning How to Not Be a Snowflake

    Learning How to Not Be a Snowflake0

    Resilience, a crucial emotional attribute for a happy and successful life, is in decline across college campuses and workplaces.  The head of counseling at one major university recently observed “a decrease in the ability of many young people to manage the everyday bumps in the road of life.” In a memo, which was shared by

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  • Are Black Male Athletes Failing to Graduate Because of Racism?

    Are Black Male Athletes Failing to Graduate Because of Racism?0

    The relationship between participation in sports and academic performance has many faces. Most of them are happy; for instance, many studies show that high school athletes outperform non-athletes academically by a large margin. At the college level, the relationships are more varied, depending on the school, the sport, and the demographic group. Still, college athletes

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  • 15 of Mark Twain’s Sassiest Witticisms

    15 of Mark Twain’s Sassiest Witticisms0

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) is arguably the most celebrated humorist and writer in American history. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Hannibal, Missouri, Twain built a literary reputation unrivaled in his day. On one hand, he wrote Huck Finn, a literary masterpiece widely considered the greatest novel ever written by an American. On the other hand, Twain

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  • The Paradox of Leveling the Playing Field in the Name of Equality

    The Paradox of Leveling the Playing Field in the Name of Equality0

    Concepts of equality have long formed the keystones of Western philosophies. Revolutions have been fought in the name of equality, our courts are built around the idea that we are all equal before the law, and activists have spent the last century working to break down the systematic inequalities affecting our societies.   Indeed, philosophical

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  • Statism’s First Casualty Is the Truthful Use of Language

    Statism’s First Casualty Is the Truthful Use of Language0

    Senator Hiram Johnson is credited with having said during World War I, “The first casualty, when war comes, is truth,” and this observation has been made in more or less the same words many times, both before and since Johnson made his statement. No doubt the declaration is true, but it is true in a

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