Here is a nice story on sorting the priorities of life:

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Doug Karr, product manager for a "permission-based email service provider" (permission spam?) lays down three interesting rules for understanding differences of race, religion, politics, sex and bigotry: 1. He will never understand others; so he tries to respect things that he doesn't understand. 2. Everyone is different and unique. and 3. Double standards are part of life; so accept it. While they sound very reasonable at first glance, I strongly disagree with all three of them for very fundamental reasons.

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A King had, as only son, a young Prince, brave, skillful and intelligent. To perfect his knowledge of Life, he sent him by the side of an Old Wise Man.

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While cleaning my computer I came across the audio of a very motivating commencement speech by Steve Jobs, delivered to 2005 Stanford graduates. The summary of the speech, in his own words, is:
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"In our families there are the heads; some of them are successful, others are not. Why? We complain of others in our failures. The moment I am unsuccessful, I say, so-and-so is the cause of the failure. In failure, one does not like to confess one's own faults and weaknesses. Each person tries to hold himself faultless and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck. When heads of families fail, they should ask themselves, why it is that some persons manage a family so well and others do not. Then you will find that the difference is owing to the man — his presence, his personality.

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"Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making and character-making assimilation of ideas.” said Swami Vivekananda.

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From the depths of MySpace I found this gem. Enjoy.
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A hilarious video by Kirk Cameron, until I realized he was actually serious, attempts to prove creationism by showing how a well made Banana fits into your hand (btw: and so does something else too) for eating. See Kirk's video below:
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Dr. Albert Einstein once said - "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

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Übermensch is often incorrectly translated in English as Superman. The word Superman lacks the German connotation of mastery of a sphere beyond human knowledge and power. In addition, Mensch is closer to the English word "human" then "male". Mensch is to be understood as a neutral form of a noun. Übermensch is someone with knowledge and power over and beyond normal human being. The fictional character Superman merely have more of certain powers we understand. For example you can emulate his heat rays with a high powered laser and so on.

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