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The Daily Message Point
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Profiles of notable Americans, not celebrities, who have shown courage by standing up for their beliefs or taking risks against great odds. Their lives, their legacies inspire us to become the person we've dreamed of becoming.
- Added on: May 20th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Vince Reardon
- Listed in: Culture Beliefs & Causes
- Tags: courage legacy pathfinders
Recent Posts
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: How Cooperation Trumps Competition
Surveys consistently rank the U.S. as the most individualist culture in the world. Our ideal man or woman is independent and self-reliant. Unlike collectivist cultures (Japan, China, Mexico, etc.) we give primacy to the individual over family, commun...
Is Selfishness a Virtue? Yes, at the Gambling Table
The late Ayn Rand became famous for promoting the “virtue” of selfishness in bestselling novels (Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead) and non-fiction works. In the process she attracted a devoted following of academics and public intelle...
Gene Kranz: The Prototypical NASA Flight Controller
Gene Kranz had always wanted to be a pilot, but his flying career almost crashed on take-off. Accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy, he flunked the physical due to diabetes. “I had been working at the A&P warehouse and living on chocolate milk a...
David Lim: The Phoenix of One World Trade Center
Lim, a second-generation Chinese-American and 22-year veteran cop, was embarking on the longest, most arduous, and most heart-breaking day of his life....
Jacques Barzun: On Reading the Classics
Reading classic literature is the modern equivalent of wearing a hair shirt: good for you to “try on,” but, oh, what a slow, excruciating torture. A month ago I tried to read Middlemarch by George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans) and gave u...
Socrates on Trial: Guilty or Innocent?
Courtrooms and the dramas that unfold within them make for riveting storytelling. A re-enactment of the trial of Socrates, as told to us by Plato in his dramatic dialogue “Apology,” is a case in point. If I were the casting director, I ...
