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		<title>Doryphore</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noun. A person who points out the mistakes of others in an annoying way. Etymology: From the French for &#8220;Colorado beetle&#8221; which is based on the Greek word, doruphoros (&#8220;spearcarrier&#8221;). The word was introduced by Sir Harold Nicolson in 1952 when he wrote: &#8220;Often have I tried to supplement my vocabulary by inventing words, such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=416&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is it Called the Oscar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a nickname is more colorful and memorable than the formal name. The gold plated statuette is known as the &#8220;Oscar&#8221; thanks to the Academy&#8217;s librarian (and eventual executive director), Margaret Herrick, who remarked that the statuette reminded her of her uncle Oscar. No doubt he was the sort of uncle that really stood out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=412&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self Reliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man said to the universe: “Sir I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane, Cornell University Press (1972). Tagged: inspirational quote, motivational-quote, stephen crane quote<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=410&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are the Most Common Words in English?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to young tweens and teens speak, one might surmise that the word &#8220;like&#8221; is right at the top. For now, the English language is safe from the crass proliferation of works like, um, &#8220;like.&#8221; Of course there is no definitive list that accurately accounts for all written and spoken language. Every list must use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=407&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Universal Human Values</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and freedom and wants to avoid suffering. In this we are all the same; and the more we care for the happiness of others the greater our own sense of each other becomes. Many of our problems are created by ourselves based on divisions due to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=402&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day by the Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valentine&#8217;s Day is that golden opportunity for individuals to express their affection for one another. How do I love thee? Let us count the ways: In 2012, Americans will spend over $17.6 billion on Valentine&#8217;s Day cards, flowers, and gifts (the average person will spend $126). Consumers will spend $4.1 billion on jewelry, $3.5 billion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=389&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Difficulty of Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation Rainer Maria Rilke,  Letters to a Young Poet, Letter Seven  (1929). Tagged: letters to a young poet, love quote, quotes on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=384&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mature Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says: “I need you because I love you.” Erich Fromm,  The Art of Loving  (1956). Tagged: erich fromm quote, love quote, mature love, quotes on love<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=382&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Literature Speaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. The classics are books that exert a peculiar influence, both when they refuse to be eradicated from the mind and when they conceal themselves in the folds of memory, camouflaging themselves as the collective or individual unconscious. Italo Calvino, The Uses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=379&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words Invented by Dickens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although Dickens was a prolific writer (34 novels) and introduced the world to hundreds of fascinating iconic characters with equally fascinating names, he did not invent as many words as an earlier British author, writing some 250 years earlier &#8212; William Shakespeare. (Shakespeare&#8217;s complete work used 884,647 words in total, about 31,534 different or unique [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alexanderatkinsdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28067462&amp;post=374&amp;subd=alexanderatkinsdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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