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Maybe the USA is more like Carthage than Rome. From the onset of our country, many have worked to connect our history with that of the Roman Republic. The great Roman hero Cincinatus was celebrated by Washington as he and others formed a society in 1783 in order to (as their current website says…
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“Of the decline of reputation many cause nay be assigned. It is commonly lost because it never was deserved; and was conferred at first, not by the suffrages of criticism, but by the fondness of friendship, or servility of flattery. The great and popular are very freely applauded; but all soon grow weary of echoing…
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I just got back from the movies with my family, and like many in America, we saw Pixar’s Inside Out. I’d say by now you know already that it’s a movie about emotions. As usual for Pixar, it was a strong presentation of an idea. As Ed Catmull has said in his wonderful book Creativity…