My grandmother used to say--and I've had this in the back of my mind a lot lately--'What have you done good today?

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But the end product is such that I get a lot of response back from my readers saying how much they enjoyed my work and they would like for me to do more.

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Mr. Buffett argues that normal investors should not necessarily be able to find out what professional investors are doing, especially while they are still busy doing it, reminding me a lot of the Not in My Back Yard situation.

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"I can see these standards are helping my students and a lot of us are worried this back and forth and indecision will only hurt our kids, " she said.

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And I spend a lot of my time thinking immediately about how we can put folks back to work and how we can stabilize the world financial markets.

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My oldest son, for example, decided back in high school that college offered him nothing but a lot of debt and political-correctness hassle.

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"The charity has been great - getting together with a lot of folk with head injuries and talking to them has helped get my speech back, " he said.

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Like a lot of people my age, the first computer I ever used was an Apple IIe, back in elementary school, which was full of them.

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