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  1. 1. buy a new car
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  2. 2. Watch all the awesome TED.com/talks
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  3. 3. become a morning person.
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  4. 4. get a green card
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  5. 5. godisimaginary.com
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  6. 6. leave this town
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  7. 7. learn krav maga
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  8. 8. find my soulmate
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  9. 9. Promote English as a global language
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  10. 10. Master the Catalyst Perl framework
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  11. 11. Learn DOM Scripting
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  12. 12. Start my own business
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  13. 13. continue to encourage the separation of church and state
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  14. 14. Watch truly moving pictures
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  15. 15. Never give up
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  16. 16. Watch a space shuttle launch
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  17. 17. Spread the word about Jesus
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  18. 18. Buy a House
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  19. 19. Spread the truth about the Bible
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  20. 20. bungee jump
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  21. 21. get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
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    1,862 people
  22. 22. learn photography
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  23. 23. figure out a single phrase which will convince those who hold religious beliefs to become atheists
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  24. 24. Finish reading all my books on Objectivist thought.
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  25. 25. Go white water rafting
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  26. 26. Skydive
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  27. 27. Drive across the USA
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  28. 28. Enter a topcoder competition
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  29. 29. go zorbing
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  30. 30. join the Mile High Club
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  31. 31. Make love in front of a log fire
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  32. 32. witness the end of the Imperial Unit System
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  33. 33. hang glide
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  34. 34. invent something
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  35. 35. see the northern lights
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  36. 36. go skinny dipping
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  37. 37. colonize mars
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  38. 38. Swim in a bioluminescent bay
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  39. 39. Read "The Selfish Gene"
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  40. 40. reform English spelling
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  41. 41. find 43 bugs in 43 things
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  42. 42. visit Romania
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godisimaginary.com (read all 24 entries…)
Priceless! 4 days ago

I came across the bumper sticker in the picture, and, naturally, I wanted to check how accurate it was. After a quick websearch, I found this site quoting well-referenced research:

Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes—one child every five seconds.

The ironic fact is that the site in question is Hunger Facts: International, “A Christian Voice for Ending Hunger”.

Note: the study quoted was conducted in 2003. As of 2007, the number of children who die daily of hunger is 18,000 and the number of children who die every day of all causes is 26,500



Learn a third language fluently
WHY?! 4 days ago

I’m a native Romanian speaker and I have near-native fluency in English. Why would I learn another language, fluently, when there are somanyother things tolearn?

English is the de-facto universal language. Live with it.



Promote English as a global language (read all 8 entries…)
Consolidated argument 2 weeks ago

I just finalized my article on why English should be the world’s universal language.

Comments are welcome on that page.



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