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How Your Passion Fuels Others

The 19th Century poet and professor William Herbert Carruth, paid this tribute to a teacher named Mark Hopkins.

Mark Hopkins sat on one end of a log
And a farm boy sat on the other.
Mark Hopkins came as a pedagogue
And taught as an elder brother. Continue reading

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Psalm 73

In a 2003 Parade Magazine column, Ask Marilyn, Marilyn vos Savant gave an interesting perspective on contentment.

A reader was bothered that her neighbor’s yard looked better than her own. So, she did something unusual. She walked over to her neighbor’s house to look at her own yard. When she did, the grass in her yard looked greener.

“Why does this occur?” the reader asked Continue reading

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