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Quiet

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Quiet Susan Cain If this is true—if solitude is an important key to creativity—then we might all want to develop a taste for it. We’d want to teach our kids to work independently. We’d want to give employees plenty of privacy and autonomy. Yet increasingly we do just the opposite. We like to believe that we live in a grand age of creative individualism. We look back at the midcentury era in which the Berkeley researchers conducted their creativity studies, and feel superior. Unlike the starched-shirted conformists of the 1950s, we hang posters of Einstein on our walls, his tongue stuck out iconoclastically. We consume indie music and films, and generate our own online content. We “think different” (even if we got the idea from Apple Computer’s famous ad campaign). But the way we organize many of our most important institutions—our schools and our workplaces—tells a very different story. It’s the story of a contemporary phenomenon that I call the New Groupthink—a pheno...

ضحكات كئيبة

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ضحكات كئيبة   احمد خالد توفيق إذا أمطرت السماء فهذه علامة واضحة..  الولايات المتحدة تلاعبت بالطقس السجون تعج بمن قرروا أن يعملوا ما يروق لهم فحسب 

The Faults in Our Stars

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The Faults in Our Stars John Green Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.) There are a number of ways to establish someone’s approximate survival expectations without actually asking. I used the classic: “So, are you in school?” Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. I understood the story ended because Anna died or got too sick to write and this midsentence thing was supposed to reflect how life really ends and whatever Love is keeping the promise anyway And yet still I worried. I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying. But I am particularly indebted to you, sir, both for your kind...

رأيت الله

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رأيت الله  مصطفي محمود يقول الامام النفري إن الجسد حقيقة فانية و إنه ثوب ابتلاء خلقه الله لامتحان الروح...و هنا حكمة الصوم، فهو اعلان الروح عن نفسها و عن قدرتها علي قمع الجسد الذي ابتليت به. العلم المستقر هو الجهل المستقر.