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The Present - Universal Truth - The Ultimate Truth A man should look for what is and not for what he thinks should be. Albert Einstein Truth you can check: It is as matter of fact as the ground and as useful as food. It's the kind of truth that can make hate and war as unnecessary as ignorance. Charles Darwin revealed how evolution works, but not what it really means. Evolution is no longer just a theory; it has been proven true beyond a reasonable doubt. The evidence says we evolved as life evolved. Human beings did not just appear at the top of the evolutionary ladder to reap the benefits of those millions of years of evolution without having to live through it. In other words, you were those other animals. You had to be lower animals to be a human now. In addition to the fossil evidence, the genetic code proves that all animals, including us, evolved from bacteria over the last 700 million years on earth. In other words, you were a microbe, an insect, a fish, a dinosaur, an ape... How do you know you are dead? Everything is balanced. 1.

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Interview: It's a FALL OUT BOY face-off. PATRICK STUMP vs. JOE TROHMAN. by Shahlin Graves Holy smokes! FALL OUT BOY returned to our lives in a spectacular fashion this year, favouring New Zealand with an intimate one-off Auckland show back in March, and followed up by the release of the band's fifth studio album 'Save Rock And Roll', which debuted at Number One in their homeland and features the likes of Elton John and Courtney Love. During their recent trip here, Coup De Main faced vocalist PATRICK STUMP and guitarist JOE TROHMAN off against each other in a test of their friendship with motivational sweet treats... "[Elton John,] Courtney Love, Big Sean, Foxes - they all brought really unique ideas and really, really were far more real collaborations than we've ever had because they did their own thing, as opposed to us telling them: "You do this because we only have ten minutes to get this done." We actually had the time for them to do it. CDM: Rad. CDM: Which song on the new album do you think best represents Fall Out Boy in 2013?

25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer When George Plimpton asked Ernest Hemingway what the best training for an aspiring writer would be in a 1954 interview, Hem replied, “Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.” Today, writing well is more important than ever. Far from being the province of a select few as it was in Hemingway’s day, writing is a daily occupation for all of us — in email, on blogs, and through social media. So what can we do to improve our writing short of hanging ourselves? 1. Don’t just plan to write—write. 2. [The] Resistance knows that the longer we noodle around “getting ready,” the more time and opportunity we’ll have to sabotage ourselves. 3. Find your best time of the day for writing and write. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Treat writing as a job. 10. 11. 12.

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