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	<link>http://michael-damian.net</link>
	<description>This is the blog where I muse on responsible conduct of scientific research</description>
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		<title>Greatness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a nineteen-year-old high school student and budding poet – two years after my diving accident – many factors adversely affected my creativity. My trips in a special bus to school and back home, my courses, and my assignments, though I was spared a lot of writing and was mostly tested orally, all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=9</link>
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		<title>To Think for Oneself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let us examine the three purposes of writing: to inform, entertain, and enlighten. To me, the second one is bottom of the list, though it is instrumental in the achievement of the two others. Every great teacher knows this intimately and readily laces his teachings with relevant and interesting stories, and humor. 
The first purpose, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Wisdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is wisdom? But first, what are the conditions that render it desirable, if not necessary, and what is its essential purpose? 
Life is a desire to live, and better still a desire to live happily. As we strive to satisfy this desire, we encounter obstacles that complicate or frustrate our efforts. This complication or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Finders tellers – did you find what you were looking for?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we say find, we do not mean about simply using a search engine and waiting for the generated results. With Finders Tellers, you are invited to post your listing and say to others (or better yet describe) the things you are looking for. In due time, you can check the responses posted and see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=7</link>
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		<title>No Pulitzer For Drama; No Wonder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, when The Pulitzer Prizes were announced, the not entirely delightful news is that no Pulitzer was awarded in drama.
While the decision is unsettling, the prudence of it must be acknowledged, since, affection for the theater and those who make it aside, there was no drama to consider.
Let us have the courage to ask [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Psychic Readers Predict The Future But You Create Destiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has a psychic ever told you something incredibly amazing about your future that is hard to imagine as true? Or warned you, perhaps frightened you about the future by reading an awful outcome to a situation? Did you know whether to believe the prediction or not?  Sooner or later  most of us who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=19</link>
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		<title>The Characteristics of Soul</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the dawn of spring, I am reminded by my children the joy of anticipating new life.
They will usually see a flower or two that has made its way through the soil to a world beyond itself. What starts out as a seedling or bulb is transformed by natures capacity to evolve.
Inside each of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Ian Fleming &#8211; James Bonds Creator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Parliament). His father died in the first world war. In his will, he bequeathed his property to his widow on condition she never remarries. 
Ians youth was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Hindu God idols – discovering Indian mythology!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all enjoy decorating our homes as beautifully as possible, especially when it comes to statues or small sculptures that depict various symbols. Powerfully attracted by the complex history of Buddhist idols, a lot of people have discovered an entire array of objects presented online, included in the gold collection. For them, these religious murtis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=11</link>
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		<title>Divining The Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether in movies or books or in life, it is human nature to be curious about what happens next, what the future holds in store.  Because of this curiosity divination methods were developed, some even centuries old.  There are several tools and ways to divine the future.  Forms popularized by gypsies (as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-damian.net/?p=6</link>
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