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	<title>Been Thinking About &#187; character</title>
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		<title>This is a Football</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/10/23/this-is-a-football/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an often repeated story, legendary football coach, Vince Lombardi, once expressed his frustration by stopping practice and saying to his Green Bay Packer professionals something like, &#8220;Let&#8217;s start at the beginning. This is a football. These are the yard markers. I&#8217;m the coach. You are the players.&#8221; (Although I haven&#8217;t been able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Olympics, National Elections, and Heaven</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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In this Olympic and election year, I&#8217;ve been thinking again about the way competition surfaces in every area of our lives. It shows up not only in sports, but in education, business, and science. Media networks compete for ratings, religious groups for our minds and hearts, politicians for our votes, and companies for our money.

In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enlightenment</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2008/01/01/enlightenment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it take to be wise?
In a television commercial for online yellow pages, actor David Carradine plays a guru to a young seeker. When the student asks, “How do I find enlightenment?” the master says, “Yellowbook.com . . . Everyone is searching for something . . . . After all, it is a material [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aesop</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2007/04/01/aesop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until recently, I thought of Aesop as an ancient Dr. Seuss.Then I started reading his fables. What surprised me is that his stories about talking animals, birds, and insects aren’t just for children. As an adult, I found that many of Aesop’s fables parallel or at least reinforce moral insights of the Bible.
Aesop’s history is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Realism</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2007/03/01/the-road-to-realism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone has noticed that, “Optimists think the glass is half full. Pessimists think it’s half empty. Realists know that if they stay around long enough they’re going to have to wash the glass.”
In art, realists paint life with blemishes, wrinkles, and scars. Idealists paint a subject as they imagine it could or should be.
On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Higher Ground</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2007/02/01/higher-ground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do any of us think we are on the wrong side of a disagreement?
Isn&#8217;t it ironic that, in times of conflict, we all think we have right on our side? It doesn&#8217;t matter if the disagreement is marital, political, or international. Together with our allies, we all are convinced that our side holds the moral [...]]]></description>
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