Learning Life’s Lessons
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
— Søren Kierkegaard
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Skeptic
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The Secret to Good Communications
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Of course there is nothing to say that this brilliant snippet of communication wisdom should be limited to sermons. It is also the secret of a good speech, a good presentation, or even a good email.
Net it out, people.
Seize the Day
ByHeatherThis time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson