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Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal – Brain Pickings
“If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.”
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Three Little Words That Will Change Your Life Forever | Beth Buelow, PCC | LinkedIn
One rainy afternoon a few years ago, I was driving into Seattle for a networking event when my husband called me on my cell. I answered (this was pre-hands-free law) and listened, noting the barely perceptible panic in his voice: something unexpected had come up, and he needed the car for an off-sit
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106-Year-Old Virginia McLaurin Meets Obama, Dances With Joy - NBC News
Virginia McLaurin, 106, danced, jigged, and whooped her way across the room when she met Barack and Michelle Obama for Black History Month.
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In “Dancing, So As Not to Be Dead,” Ray Bradbury’s introduction to The Illustrated Man, he starts with a story about Laurent, a waiter in Paris, who spends his life between working and dancing. “I …
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A Breast Cancer Surgeon Who Keeps Challenging the Status Quo - The New York Times
Dr. Laura J. Esserman strikes a different note in response to conventional wisdom on treating some kinds of breast lesions.
Joe Biden's Advice On Compassion And Family, In His Own Words : It's All Politics : NPR
"It's not all that difficult, folks, to be compassionate when you've been the beneficiary of compassion in your lowest moments," the vice president told Yale graduates in May.
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It's been his beat for 17 years. Now Deon Joseph sees an interest in Skid Row that didn't exist when downtown Los Angeles was a shell no one visited.
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Desperate To Speak: How Emily Blunt Found Her Voice : NPR
The actress stars in the new film Into the Woods, in theaters Thursday. On screen she's a natural. But as a kid, she had a stutter so severe she could hardly say her own name.
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A lot of people give business advice. I've found there's one thing you need to know more than anything else.