Forty percent of people who make resolutions are usually still successful after six months, a comforting sign that people can change their behavior, and a lesson for us all.
And as such offers a lesson for us all.
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But a resource that can be edited by experts and non-experts alike will always carry risks, and perhaps that's Wikipedia's greatest lesson for us all: that its very existence must force us to question notions of accuracy and reliability, while giving us a means to correct errors and add to the global knowledge pot.
But as economics is at its core a behavioral science, the '09 draft was also an economics lesson for reminding us that best and worst is a fluid concept, while wealth generation is frequently compassionate beyond the basic truth that under capitalism, producers succeed for giving us what we want.
And I think that's a good lesson for all of us to remember.
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But there's a lesson in Potter for us all.
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That's, I think, an important lesson for all of us on this day -- are the things that we can try to do that might have seemed impossible but we know are worth doing, and can we apply those principles that we know to be true in our own lives and our society.
Let that be a lesson for the rest of us.
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That lesson is unfolding for the US. The government has raised the debt limit numerous times, and will again before the Aug. 2 deadline set-forth by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
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It's not difficult to find a lesson in the stones for those of us trying to simplify our sprawling lives.
In any case, I think the lesson to be learned, for those of us who aspire to be good leaders, is not simply that they failed to take the curve at 70 mph on a wet road, but that we can develop capabilities and skills that will help us avoid getting ourselves into a similar situation.
Hidden within this high-stakes election campaign is another priceless lesson for all politicians and for the rest of us.
Together, they are teaching us a hard lesson: In medicine, nothing comes for free.
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