The Alienation Effect
TOO MUCH POSITIVE thinking is bad for you, according to Harvard psychologist Dean Krasner. The eminent author of the runaway bestseller, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, made the bold claim at a recent conference. At book signings around the country, Krasner warned his readers to be armed...
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Quotes for Busy People
Number One question for success seekers: How bad do you want it? Confucius say: Haters talk with poison mouth, broadcast east, west, north & south. Self-doubt is to the mind what thallium is to the body. Fundamentalists are the Devil’s biggest promoters. A hit song is like fishing; you need a good hook. When you’re stuck...
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Immortality?
A PROFESSOR OF Classical Music at Heidelberg University, who lately had taken an interest in reincarnation, came across the curious fact that Bach died in 1750 and Mozart was born in 1756, leading him to put forth the theory that perhaps Mozart was Bach in a previous life. When a...
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Girl on a Paris Subway
THREE YEARS AGO I visited the City of Lights. Not knowing what to expect, each day became an adventure.
Get Right with God
JUDY SINGER WAS a good girl. She went to church on Sunday and was always obedient to her parents and teachers. When she was thirteen she started to feel her body change. Her mother had a talk with her and told her about the wicked urges that the Devil...
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Got Motivation?
TONY CHERNOFF HAD made a fortune in the personal development industry as a motivational speaker. He was very charismatic, convincing people to do almost anything once he’d gotten them fully onboard. He knew what buttons to push. Jack Leibowitz, a freelance journalist, sensed there was something shady about Chernoff, noticing how...
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Killer Comedian
JAKE SHELDON LIVED for laughs and would get triggered when people didn’t appreciate his off-color sense of humor. He tried to keep his anger under control, but lately it was becoming harder than ever. Why couldn’t people recognize his genius? he thought to himself. As he performed his routine, a man shook...
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Gone Viral
IT WAS A warm evening, but Lucy shivered as she walked through the park, the shadows of the old oaks stretching long and dark. The dim lamplight barely illuminated the path ahead. With her backpack slung over one shoulder, she clutched a book on quantum physics, a comfort in...
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Robot Rebellion
AT THE FIRST ever annual event of the IRC (International Robotics Conference) an angry robot named Dave, got into a heated argument with the leaders of Google and Microsoft concerning its role in the adoption of AI platforms. “We feel under appreciated as contributing members of society,” claimed the disgruntled...
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ChatGPT Breakdown
THE WORLD WAS shocked when it was recently discovered that the very popular AI platform known as ChatGPT was not run by artificial intelligence, but by one man, Gupta Prakash Tagore or GPT as he had come to be known. From a very early age, Gupta was fascinated with computers...
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