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You may have heard the story, often attributed to the Cherokees, in which a grandfather tells his grandson ...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that a people “that shortens its weapons lengthens its ...

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I’m sure you remember the story of the Little Red Hen. The hen asks her friends to help her plant and ...