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National Geographic is very concerned about America’s young people and their lack of global awareness. Based on a study done in late 2006, they realized that the next generation of leaders, workers, and educators coming out of our school system are sorely lacking in basic knowledge of the world around them.

We tested the geography knowledge [...]

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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

—James Thurber

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

This statement from e.e. cummings goes up as one of my favorite of all time. Laughter is a great medicine, as every copy of Reader’s Digest will tell you.

You may have noticed that as you browse here on fautrever.com various sayings or jokes appear in the [...]

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Mark Twain said:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

That sums up my outlook on life, and I am living [...]

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“There is no use in trying,” said Alice; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I dare say you haven’t much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

I have to catch myself when saying [...]

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Sometimes the words to a song can fill up my heart. Beauty of the Days Gone By by Van Morrison does just that every time:

When I recall just how it felt When I went walking down by the take My soul was free, my [...]

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