Category: General
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Minnesota from the other side of the Earth
Toxic Secrets: The town that 3M built – where kids are dying of cancer
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Fortunes for 2018
Had Leeann Chin’s for dinner on New Year’s Day and here were my and our fortunes:Now is the time to set your sights high and go for it.Now is a luck time for you – take a chance.Don’t remember which was which, but they’re both good. Happy New Year!
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Let’s hope so, it’s Thanksgiving at our house…
You will be the guest of a gracious host.Fortune Cookie
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Minnesota “nice”
It might be nicer not to say “sorry”: A study of more then 1,000 people in Frontiers of Psychology found that people reported feeling more hurt about a social rejection when it contained an apology and that the words “I’m sorry” made people feel obligated to offer forgiveness when they didn’t want to.Time, 2017-10-02 [edited]
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Finishing School
We’re not the top species on the planet because we’re nice. We are a very aggressive species. It is in us. And people talk a lot about how well the military turns kids into killing machines and stuff; and I’ll always argue that it’s just finishing school.Karl Marlantes, USMC on Vietnam Episode 5 by Ken…
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Awakenings
We were probably the last kids of any generation that actually believed our government would never lie to us.John Musgrave, USMC on Vietnam Episode 2 by Ken Burns
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Freedom
We as Americans should have understood the desire of the Vietnamese people to have their own country. I mean we did the same thing to the Brits.Robert Theault, Special Forces on Vietnam Episode 2 by Ken Burns