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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J.K.Rowling

 

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. - John Barrymore

« This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. » Saint Augustine

"As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!" - Robert Collier

“Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.” — Elizabeth Smart

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In 2012, Fed Prisons Lost More Prisoners than They Gained - Law Blog...

The number of adults who entered prisons in the U.S. dropped to the lowest point in nearly 15 years in 2012. And for the first time in more than a decade, the federal prison system released more...

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For first time in a decade, federal prison system released more prisoners than it admitted. http://on.wsj.com/IZqk9r

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What Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook sell-off really means - The Term...

Facebook is clearly tipping its hand today, saying that its stock is overvalued and the company isn't going to perform as well as the market believes it will.

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Fortune Magazine ‏@FortuneMagazine 8h

What Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook sell-off really means

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The Best Gift Leaders Can Give: Honest Feedback

How many of you would like your manager to tell you what you want you want to hear rather than what you need to hear? Everyone wants to know the truth, no matter how difficult it is to hear.

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The best gift that leaders can give is honest feedback

 http://onforb.es/J8E8h9

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BBC News (UK) ‏@BBCNews 

MPs believe more people may be addicted to sleeping tablets, painkillers and anti-depressants than to illegal drugs http://bbc.in/1gJFjm3 

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Chicago Sun-Times Lays Off All Its Full-Time Photographers

The company said the move was in response to market changes. The union says the layoffs of 28 employees represented bad-faith bargaining it will challenge.

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@unmarketing It goes deeper too, Chicago Sun Times fired photography staff and replaced them with iPhone pictakers http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/business/media/chicago-sun-times-lays-off-all-its-full-time-photographers.html?_r=0 …

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metmuseum ‏@metmuseum 

This @voguemagazine story is inspired by our “Metropolitan Vanities” exhibition: http://met.org/IVW3Is  

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Bitcoin May Be Following This Classic Bubble Stages Chart

By Jesse Colombo @TheBubbleBubble

Bitcoin may be following a classic pattern that speculative bubbles take as they pop.

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If Bitcoin is indeed following that classic pattern, an even greater price crash is ahead: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2013/12/19/bitcoin-may-be-following-this-classic-bubble-stages-chart/ …

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Chris Selley: Reefer reform madness http://natpo.st/JNFYW8

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The biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2013: http://bit.ly/1dTiVC7

The Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs Of 2013

[Business Insider] The editors of the journal Science have chosen cancer immunotherapy — using the body's immune system to attack tumors instead of targeting the tumor itself — as the biggest...

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