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A Special Bond Between Animals and Disabled Humans (Popularity:  )
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Animals can be mysterious and unpredictable, but more and more animal behaviorists and others who work regularly with our nonhuman fellow beings are finding that many seem to have a special rapport with mentally or physically disabled people. Dogs and cats are regularly brought into hospitals and nursing homes to provide a welcome respite from the institutional setting of such places; dogs have also gone beyond acting as seeing-eye dogs ...
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Commit To Be Happy (Popularity: )
Commit To Be Happy
Today, why not made a personal commitment to be happy, in spite of what life hands over to you. You have to admit that there are too many things over which you have no control. The only thing you can do is to stop allowing them to make dents in your spirit.
Happiness is not something that others can take from you. It's something that you would have ...
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The World's Greatest Lie... (Popularity: )
"Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man.
"What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."
(An excerpt from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. A fable about following your dreams.)
Do you believe you have ...
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What are the Lessons of the Christmas Truce of 1914? (Popularity: )
A Scottish man, Alfred Anderson died in November of 2005, at the unbelievable age of 109. But perhaps even more remarkable is that he was apparently until his death the last survivor of the Christmas Truce of 1914. Only 18 years old at the time he was on the Western front in the early stages of that awful war that claimed the lives of 31 million people. On the front ...
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