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	<description>A Perspective on Ethical Humanism by Jone Johnson Lewis</description>
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		<title>Reading from William Salter: The Higher Life of Humanity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From William Salter, an early Ethical Culture leader; adapted by Jone Johnson Lewis:
&#8220;The higher life of humanity is made of our higher impulses, our higher thoughts, our higher strivings. We all must live and we must work (or some one must work) for us to have the means of living. But this physical life is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2012/02/reading-from-william-salter-the-higher-life-of-humanity/</link>
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		<title>A. Eustace Haydon on Humanist Spirituality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A. Eustace Haydon, a signer of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto, Dean of the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Chicago, and for some years a Leader in the Ethical Culture Movement (AEU) had this to say on the spirituality of humanism:
&#8220;The Humanist rarely loses the feeling of at-homeness in the universe. The Humanist is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2012/02/haydon-humanist-spirituality-2/</link>
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		<title>Reason</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Compassion without reason is ineffective; reason without compassion is destructive.
&#8220;Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he&#8217;s been given. But up to now he hasn&#8217;t been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life&#8217;s become extinct, the climate&#8217;s ruined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2012/02/reason/</link>
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		<title>Editing Jefferson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How the National Prayer Breakfast invitation edited Thomas Jefferson:
“In extracting the pure principles which he [Jesus] taught, we should have to strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power to themselves….We must reduce our volume to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2012/01/editing-jefferson/</link>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions That Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can you make resolutions you&#8217;ll actually keep?
Making general resolutions to change (&#8221;I&#8217;ll lose weight&#8221; / &#8220;I&#8217;ll stop smoking&#8221; / &#8220;I&#8217;ll do something about my job&#8221;) rarely results in actually achieving what you resolve.
Those general statements are good starts, though.
Think smart.  That&#8217;s S &#8211; M &#8211; A &#8211; R &#8211; T &#8212; a way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2012/01/new-years-resolutions-that-work/</link>
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		<title>Are Pigeons Smarter Than Human Beings?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We as humans factor in far more than basic probabilities &#8212; hope, greed, whatever.  I found this article fascinating!  Are Birds Smarter Than Humans? &#8211; PDF file

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		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2011/08/are-pigeons-smarter-than-human-beings/</link>
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		<title>A Time to Mourn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I cannot fully celebrate anyone&#8217;s death.  It would make me less than I want to be.  It was Osama bin Laden&#8217;s celebration of death of others in the service of his ends that led him to inspire so much pain and suffering.  I don&#8217;t want to be like that, even in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2011/05/a-time-to-mourn/</link>
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		<title>What Did Felix Really Say?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, someone asked me about the &#8220;correct&#8221; version of the quote from Felix Adler about &#8220;eliciting the best&#8221; or &#8220;bringing out the best.&#8221;  Here is an edited version of my response, based on quick research:
He said it several different ways.  Here are two I can document as actually being from him:
The title of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ethicalplatform.net/leaders/2011/02/what-did-felix-really-say/</link>
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