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teachable moment

teachable moment

  “time that has elapsed ⇒ elapsed time a leaf that has fallen ⇒ a fallen leaf a man who has traveled widely ⇒ a widely traveled man a testicle that has not descended into the scrotum ⇒ an undescended testicle a Christ that has risen from the dead ⇒ a risen...
take a number

take a number

  Average people: they tell each other in precise detail what was on their boarding house menu. –Robert Musil, DiariesAdd a Tooltip Text   Don’t you want to be like that cute, average girl who sells Progressive insurance on TV? She’s not a stark raving...
cultural contribution

cultural contribution

  “I myself am a failure at raising funds and sustaining my work. As a visiting artist I can hardly support basic functions. I do not have health insurance, life insurance, storage or insurance for art works; I do not have savings, retirement funds, medical plan,...
glorified failure

glorified failure

  “Miss Rand provided a handy set of rules for every patriotic moviemaker to follow: Don’t Smear the Free Enterprise System. Don’t Deify the ‘Common Man’. Don’t Glorify Failure. Don’t Smear Industrialists. Don’t...
One Giant Molecule

One Giant Molecule

  “Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.” —Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth  ♠Add a Tooltip Text   101. Jimmie J. J. Walker. Child star or not? 102. Raw milk enthusiasts. Predominantly...
waste management

waste management

  “It is enough to be convinced once and for all that reality is change, that change is indivisible, and that in an indivisible change the past is one with the present.” –Henri Bergson ♥Add a Tooltip Text It was an old style beach cottage; it...