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Lessons in Life.

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1. 20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life | Zen Hab
2. YouTube - Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood
3. Call Your Mother - New York Times
4. In Rubble, Couple Clung to Each Other, and to Life - New York Times
5. The Bush Paradox
6. Cause for Alarm on the Fourth of July - Bob Herbert
7. Comments

1. 20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life | Zen Hab

   20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life
   
   “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
   
   I’m nearly 35 years old, and I’ve made my share of mistakes in my life. I’m not a big believer in regrets … and I have learned tremendously from every single mistake … and my life is pretty great. However, there are a few things I wish I had known when I was graduating from high school and starting out as an adult in life.
   
   

   http://zenhabits.net/2008/02/20-things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-starting-out-in-life/

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2. YouTube - Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood

   full lecture - Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit www.cmu.edu/randyslecture. "Journeys" are special University Lectures in which Carnegie Mellon faculty members share their reflections on their journeys -- the everyday actions, decisions, challenges and joys that make a life.
   
   

   http://youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

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3. Call Your Mother - New York Times

   But every time life knocked her down, she got up, dusted herself off and kept on marching forward, motivated by the saying that pessimists are usually right, optimists are usually wrong, but most great changes were made by optimists.
   
   

   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/opinion/11friedman.html?em&ex=1210737600&en=b0d2ffd5806fe00d&ei=5087%0A

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4. In Rubble, Couple Clung to Each Other, and to Life - New York Times

   A tale of survival in the rubble from last Monday’s earthquake in China is also a tale of a rekindled love for two people who might have died had they been trapped alone.
   
   

   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/world/asia/19survivors.html?ref=asia

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5. The Bush Paradox

   Life is complicated. The reason we have democracy is that no one side is right all the time. The only people who are dangerous are those who can’t admit, even to themselves, that obvious fact.
   
   

   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/opinion/24brooks.html

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6. Cause for Alarm on the Fourth of July - Bob Herbert

   The symbols of patriotism — bumper stickers and those flags the size of baseball fields — have taken the place of the hard work and sacrifice required to keep a great nation great.
   
   We can build spectacular new stadiums for football and baseball teams (the Yanks, the Mets, the Giants and the Jets are all getting ready to move into staggeringly expensive new homes) but we can’t rebuild New Orleans or reconstruct the World Trade Center site destroyed almost seven years ago.
   
   This year’s presidential election is the perfect opportunity to place the truth before the American public in the form of a realistic examination of the state of the nation, and an honest consideration of creative ideas for moving forward. Instead, we’re getting hour after hour and day after day of trivia: Who’s up? Who’s down? Who’s patriotic? Who’s not?
   
   
   

   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/opinion/05herbert.html?hp

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