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• This year, I’m thankful just to be

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 132
  We thought hed be gone by now based on the word at the end of July: Deployment in August . That plan quickly fell apart due to a boatload of paperwork and tasks Dad still needed to do. Next we were told September and then November. Finally, they settled on the beginning of 2010. Dad will be temporarily assigned to ...
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• Why you may want to take a personality tests

  
  IENACE — Authority: 142
  A favorite pastime is to try andunderstand oneself and other persons. And it is often much harder to understand oneself! One instrument that may make it easier are personality tests. A personality test aims to discover aspects of a person’s character that remain stable throughout that person’s lifespan, the ...
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• Less is less and more is more, nothing more, nothing less!

  
  Mokokoma Mokhonoana || Graphic designer — Authority: 110
  As an advocate of simplicity, I obviously have an interest in any writing on the subject. It’s almost inevitable not to ‘bump’ into the phrase ‘less is more’ while reading writings on minimalism or simplicity. While taking a walk last night the phrase came to mind and the philosopher in me couldn’t ...
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• The Soul Crushed and Twisted by the Mechanical Arts – Plato

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 465
  Plato’s Prisons of Techne I repost here the quote from the Republic that is usual Platonic, imagistic language is full of potential truths. Here we find Socrates discrediting primarily the sophists, but really a who class of technically skilled [techne] workers, those whose power and knowledge consists in their ...
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• Plato’s Forms Gets Seed Money To Open Dialogue Between Bloggers And Companies

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 160
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• Libel in Fact: Personality Judgment by Analogy

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  When we encounter a new person, we construct a mental model of that individual to help us describe, understand, and predict the individuals behavior. We construct an instance of what Kenneth Craik , the Scottish philosopher, called small-scale models of the outer world: in this case, inner representations of other ...
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• Corvino: The slippery slope of religious exemptions

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  This morning, I didn’t feel like getting out of bed. I wasn’t sick; just tired. But I had a full workday scheduled. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared unto me and said, “Behold, today is a sacred day, and you must not work.” Sweet! Okay, maybe I was dreaming. But as the 17th-century philosopher Thomas ...
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• The War of Philosophers

  
  Authspot — Authority: 541
  The philosphers fight against idols in other words personification to protect the identity of a person. The philosophers are thinkers who have a logic. One of the most admired philosophers of France is René Descartes.
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• Hallucinogenic drug made Jean-Paul Sartre ‘fall in love’ with lobsters

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, November 22 (ANI): A new book has revealed that European thinker Jean-Paul Sartre used to have hallucinations of lobsters, which once even chased him down the Champs Elysées.New York professor John Gerassi’s book sheds light on the conversation between him and the French philosopher about mescaline, a ...
  6 days ago

• I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

  
  2009 Artist Quote of the Day — Authority: 127
  Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German-language style and displaying a fondness ...
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• The Philosopher’s Stone at Work: the Hebron fiscal agreement

  
  The Sir Robert Bond Papers — Authority: 435
  Consistent with government policy of selling off energy assets – converting principle to cash - clause 8.4 (A) of the Hebron Fiscal Agreement exempts the NALCOR oil and gas corporation from provisions of the agreement that allow government to treat the company differently from other offshore oil companies. ...
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• When Weirdos Are Welcome In Washington

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Another kooky Barack Obama appointee became publicly known this month and quickly was thrown or voluntarily threw herself under the bus. Anita Dunn, the White House communications director (who led Obamas war on Fox News), said that Mao Zedong was one of her two favorite "political philosophers" whom "I turn to most" ...
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  Emma Source — Authority: 110
  We’ve got some awesome interviews for you today, so get ready for a bit of fun. First up, Tom Felton ‘hosted’ a series of random interviews with the Harry Potter cast , which will be featured as bonuses on the ‘Half-Blood Prince’ DVD . The questions are ingenious and catchy, you’ll surely have fun ...
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• How To Leverage Your Mindset For Success!

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 154
  Business is about influence, or “leverage.” Your book that you will author is a tool to leverage your credibility. And the first step in preparing your mind for success is to see yourself as an expert. Another way of looking at this is that you must sell yourself first to your dream of the possibility of becoming ...
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• Steve Jobs Is Not Magic: An iTablet Reality Check

  
  Today's Review — Authority: 170
  Hundreds of years ago, back before smartphones and MP3 players and fine malt liquor, all the proto-engineers in the world devoted their lives to crafting something called the Philosopher’s Stone. This magical device was capable of transmuting lead into gol… Continue reading from the original source: ...
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• The case of the easily offended 4-year-old

  
  debralegg.com — Authority: 132
  Boots eyes got wide this morning after he accidentally bumped a classmate as they both hung their coats and the boy muttered something. "Mommy!" Boots gasped. "He called me a name!" I didnt ask what the name was out of fear it was something that would get Boots in trouble for repeating it. "And calling names is ...
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• Peace is not an absence of war

  
  Ministry of Art & Jump News Blog — Authority: 104
  “Peace is not an absence of war. It is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence.” [Baruch Spinoza]
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• Emotional Isolation:A Life Apart, Without a Home, Friends or Regrets

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 131
  “My goal is equanimity,” he said. “I’m not pursuing what the world calls success.” The staff at the homeless shelter where I worked for several years had long worried about him. He sat in the day hall, well tended and polite, reading chemistry textbooks with calm comprehension. At the moment, he was in the ...
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• Dangerous Heidegger

  
  Journeys in Alterity — Authority: 419
  There’s no learning the landscape of contemporary continental philosophy, no knowing the paths of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction, no interpreting the stories told by the postmodern pilgrims who tread such ways, without understanding the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. If serious ...
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• Freedom from Fear in the Health-Care Debate

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  There comes a moment when we can say a word or speak a concept so often that it loses meaning and simply becomes sound.  The concept becomes exhausted, thin, one-dimensional.  Such was the case with the word and the concept…
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