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#1 Petro was walking towards Freedom Square, where the rally was taking place, when he noticed his friend Andriy. They had been childhood friends, and Andriy had gotten hit by a riot police truncheon two days earlier. He was still fuming about it.
#2 The government in Kiev sent the Anti-Terrorism Unit to Kharkiv to put down the protest movement. They prepared to...
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#1 The Internet has become a new sewer for the sexual unhappiness and dissatisfied relationships that exist in many marriages. Porn Web sites and sex-oriented chat rooms exist to serve the needs of people looking for quick fixes.
#2 The AARP survey found that the majority of men and women said a satisfying sexual relationship was important to their quality of life. However,...
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#1 The sun rose over the mountains as the noise of the artillery resumed. The 5th Marines had secured Hamhung and were now preparing to push the Chinese back across the border.
#2 Tim had struggled to stay warm enough to sleep, but he knew the soldiers were lucky that someone had studied the lessons of the first Korean War. The air base had been secured, and an engineering...
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Get the Summary of James DiNicolantonio's The Obesity Fix in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Obesity Fix" by James DiNicolantonio explores the multifaceted causes of the obesity epidemic, challenging the simplistic calorie in vs. calorie out model. The book traces the historical context of obesity, noting that it was once rare and considered a sign of wealth. The Industrial Revolution led to improved nutrition...
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Get the Summary of James Allen's As a Man Thinketh in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: As a Man Thinketh is James Allen's third book, first published in 1903. In it, he details how man is the creator and shaper of his destiny by the thoughts which he thinks. He rises and falls in exact accordance with the character of the thoughts which he entertains. His environment is the result of what...
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Get the Summary of James Rickards's The New Great Depression in the Room in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In The New Great Depression, James Rickards, New York Times best-selling author of Aftermath and The New Case for Gold, pulls back the curtain to reveal the true risks to our financial system and what savvy investors can do to survive, even prosper, during a time of unrivaled turbulence....
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#1 The presence of a guide is critical to the quality of a psychedelic experience. The six primary factors that most affect the nature and value of a psychedelic experience are set, substance and quantity, sitter and guide, session, and situation.
#2 Entheogen: Any psychedelic used specifically to enhance the probability of spiritual experience. Etymology: Derived...
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#1 Communication is the skill of sharing information from one person to another and multiple people at once. It is one of the most valuable interpersonal skills right now.
#2 Communication is involved in almost every aspect of your life. It helps you share ideas, build relationships, close potentially rewarding transactions, manage a group, and delegate tasks.
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#1 Who we are is determined by how we act, but how we act can also determine who we become. We must make decisions and take action every day, and never forget that doing nothing is still a decision.
#2 No one ever told me what they wanted because they didn't even know yet. You need to clarify your true intentions. When I ask my clients what they want, they often have...
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#1 Metaphor is a secret life that is lived by all of us. We utter about one metaphor for every ten to twenty-five words, or about six metaphors a minute.
#2 The ubiquity of metaphor is demonstrated by the fact that we constantly resort to it when describing anything abstract, such as ideas, feelings, thoughts, and emotions.
#3 Metaphor is a linguistic hand-me-down,...
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Book Preview: #1 I write to you as a brother and a father. I have carried your father in my arms and on my shoulders, kissed and spanked him, and watched him learn to walk. I do not know if you have known anyone from that far back, but if you have loved anyone that long, you gain a strange perspective on time and human pain.
#2 You were born in America, to parents who were not bitter....
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#1 The TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. pitted group intelligence against individual intelligence, and every week, group intelligence won. The results would never stand up to scientific scrutiny, but it is hard to resist the thought that the success of the Millionaire audience was a modern example of the same phenomenon that Francis Galton saw a century ago.
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#1 The man was buried alive by a stranger, who had kidnapped him and handcuffed him. He had left three items in the coffin: a gallon jug of cloudy water, a pile of candy bars, and a car battery attached to a caged lightbulb. He tried to calm his nerves by thinking of the faces of his children and the woman he loved.
#2 Danny was 30 years old, well dressed, and handsome....
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#1 I first heard about Themistocles when I was an eight-year-old boy. My family had just moved to Athens, Greece, because my father, a major in the US Marine Corps at the time, had received orders to be the assistant naval attaché at the local US embassy. He had been chosen for this assignment because he was Greek American and spoke Greek.
#2 The story of Themistocles...
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#1 In 1955, I joined some friends who were going into the Alps. I was asked to join them, and we spent the afternoon walking up to a small restaurant that lay at the base of the huge glacier falling down off the Obergabelhorn.
#2 Francis Crick was a physicist who worked on the three-dimensional structures of proteins. He was thirty-five years old, yet almost totally...
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#1 The history atlas I found was similar to this one, published in 1921 but carried through only to 1929. It begins with maps of ancient Egypt under this, that, and the other dynasty and empire. Then it moves on to maps of Persia prior to 700 B. C. and Macedonia.
#2 The Western civilization, viewed through an unsentimental lens, can be seen to have dominated the...
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#1 I was inducted into the Navy in 1970, and on my first day, I was given a quick haircut and marched around the grounds with my fellow classmates. We were then lined up in a formation and marched around the grounds by our senior midshipmen readers.
#2 John Paul Jones was a naval officer who grew up on a large estate in Scotland. He was a classic sea warrior, and his...
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