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Category: Fortune Cookies

Wear Your Sunscreen
Fortune Cookies

Wear Your Sunscreen

Dimitris MaroulisOctober 31, 2022November 24, 2025

  “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” (Mary Schmich) The Appetizers Mary Schmich, a Chicago Tribune columnist,…

Some Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
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Some Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Dimitris MaroulisOctober 6, 2022November 24, 2025

“We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems” (John W. Gardner) The Appetizers…

Self-healing
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Self-healing

Dimitris MaroulisSeptember 7, 2022November 24, 2025

“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s…

Decoding CODA
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Decoding CODA

Dimitris MaroulisJune 28, 2022November 24, 2025

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not…

Imagine IF…
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Imagine IF…

Dimitris MaroulisMay 16, 2022November 24, 2025

“Our role is to create the right conditions for life and learning to flourish. When we do that, we realise…

The Power of Metaphors
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The Power of Metaphors

Dimitris MaroulisMarch 10, 2022November 24, 2025

“Your time is limited: don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living…

The Pygmalion effect: Positive encouragement and praise
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The Pygmalion effect: Positive encouragement and praise

Dimitris MaroulisDecember 21, 2021November 24, 2025

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind”…

From “lost and lackadaisical” to “assertive learners” within a month!
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From “lost and lackadaisical” to “assertive learners” within a month!

Dimitris MaroulisDecember 20, 2021November 24, 2025

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The…

We are in desperate need of new heroes (role-models)!
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We are in desperate need of new heroes (role-models)!

Dimitris MaroulisOctober 13, 2021November 24, 2025

  The appetizers Walking alone in the world’s strangest places, only with your backpack, that was Paul Salopek’s dream; his…

Fortune Cookies

Can you teach a robot how to be a human? Is water a commodity?

Dimitris MaroulisSeptember 22, 2021November 24, 2025

  The appetizers Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest book “Klara and the Sun” (2020) refers to the near (?) future when children…

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