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#1 The airmen who fought in World War II were volunteers, and they were from nearly every town, city, and state in America. They were the sons of the elite, the impoverished, and everyone in between. They all volunteered to fight the war in the air against America's enemies.
#2 The Army General Classification Test, given to all recruits, was a forty-minute written exam...
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#1 The dream of every soldier is to find peace, but it is far easier to find quiet than it is to find peace. Peace must come from within yourself.
#2 I was born in 1918 in Pennsylvania. My family moved to Ephrata when I was young, and then to Lancaster when I was eight years old. I was scared to go to school, but I eventually adjusted to my changing environment.
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Get the Summary of Stephanie Land's Maid in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide...
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#1 When I was in high school, I went to a Christian camp in Muscatine, Iowa, with my girlfriend Kris. I was not particularly open to spiritual things, but when I prayed, something powerful happened. I went to breakfast a new person.
#2 I had no idea that I would go to college in Grand Rapids and become a bookaholic, buying books with money I didn't have. I had no idea...
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Get the Summary of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the...
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#1 I was 18 years old when I went to college, and I was scared all the time. I was afraid to ask the other students what the professor meant when he said our reading was reserved in the library. I was too scared to use my zip card in the cafeteria line, in case there was a trick to it.
#2 We all make mistakes, but when we turn our faces away and pretend to be better than others, we...
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#1 The Klansmen and neo-Nazis met in Memphis in 2008. Derek Black, then 19, was the community college student who started a live radio broadcast of the event for the online radio station he founded.
#2 Derek Black, the son of Don Black, a former KKK leader, was a speaker at the conference. He was polite and articulate, but never used racist slurs. He spoke about what...
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#1 The myth of Narcissus is a reflection of how today's narcissistic relationships play out. Narcissus was too concerned with himself to notice that someone genuinely wanted to love him, and Echo desperately wanted to be heard, only to be pushed to the side.
#2 Being self-absorbed can lead to emotional abuse. When you love yourself so much that you become an obsession,...
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#1 Prices determine how much money you make. They are the most important factor in your business, so you should never have to live month to month or quarter to quarter. If you have that influence, what is the best way to wield it.
#2 I was fascinated by pricing theories in college, and I learned that pricing is about how people divide up value. I later met three people...
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#1 In 2015, a Black man named Lee Anderson, who was an assistant coach at Clemson University, approached me and told me that I needed to get to know Zion Williamson, his stepson, who was a high school sophomore. He said that Zion was a superstar in the making.
#2 I helped Lee navigate the difficult waters of being a father and having no money. I took him to get food...
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#1 I was a New York native who had enrolled at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. I had always been interested in politics, and in 2003, I convinced my parents to travel to Washington D. C. to meet Senator John Edwards, who was running for president at the time.
#2 I was a political naïf at the time, so it seemed like the biggest deal when Edwards's wife, Elizabeth,...
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Get the Summary of Tucker Carlson's ‘The Long Slide’ in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of college fact checking for a quarterly magazine, and he went on to write for many other publications before becoming the primetime Fox News host he is today. In The Long Slide, Tucker delivers a few of his favorite pieces-annotated with...
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#1 There was one high point of my pandemic that I won't mention to my kids: a tweet by @thecherryghoul that said bisexuals would be 20 minutes into a movie and would Google the cast of a movie, which shook me to my core.
#2 Bi culture is everything, which means it is nothing. It is easy to look at bi culture and renounce it as stupid, beneath you, or devoid of cultural...
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#1 I had an amazing childhood, despite my mother not being married to my father. I was surrounded by books, ballet, and piano lessons. I was in Girl Scouts, and I had every enrichment program in between. I had the best of everything, but I couldn't escape one fatal flaw: my mother wasn't married to my father.
#2 The church and the community weren't the only places where...
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#1 The town of Northeim was the center of prewar Germany. It was a small town with a population of about ten thousand in 1930. The town was surrounded by walls that enclosed the medieval inner core. The most desirable area was on the hillside above the old town, where you could see the town and valley.
#2 The town of Northeim was built around a medieval city, with three...
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Get the Summary of Marsha M. Linehan's Building a Life Worth Living in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman. After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of...
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#1 Dark horses are people who have excelled despite not being the typical example of a person who excels. They may have dropped out of college, been fired, or struggled to find a career they love. But they always worked hard, and eventually found their place in the world.
#2 The journey of a dark horse is not always easy. They may feel like a round peg in a square hole,...
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#1 I had only been onstage twice before I played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. I had played a singing lion in a school play in the role of a singing lion, and I had spent my childhood performing for attention and control.
#2 I had a Dorothy Moment when I was speaking in front of a group of parents, teachers, and students. I could decide what the next moment would be....
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#1 The clock starts when you start talking about work. The first minute is the minute you spend on personal engagement. In Chapter 4, I wrote about the importance of having an introduction to your work topics. I encourage you to write your own introduction, based on your recent work accomplishments, which can be delivered in 30 seconds or less. Here are a few examples...
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#1 When the Monkey Mind is in charge, it uses your self-judgments to create dramatic storylines. Anxiety fuels this critical story, throwing plot twists and dramatic turns into the movie of your life. When you listen to the Monkey Mind, you may feel a variety of emotions such as anger, disappointment, sadness, shame, fear, and depression.
#2 The author's wife, Elizabeth,...
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