Top Items About Principles
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| Anecdotes | laughter instead of bombs | Joey Adams: "It was Martin Luther King, Jr., who passed the integration law in my name. At the time, I was president of... | root | 58 | |
| Anecdotes | Diogenes - Lentils | The hedonistic philosopher Aristippus won a comfortable sinecure at the court of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse. One... | root | 44 | |
| Anecdotes | David Halberstam shuns a general | When David Halberstam applied his enormous energy to uncovering the failures of the South Vietnamese Army in the Mekong... | root | 39 | |
| Anecdotes | Character Actress | Though Katie Holmes got a callback after auditioning for the part of Joey on "Dawson`s Creek," she declined to attend... | Anonymous | 38 | |
| Anecdotes | PETA Blooper | In November 2002, after several complaints, Fabio, a card-carrying PETA supporter, asked Sam`s Club to stop carrying a... | Anonymous | 35 | |
| Anecdotes | John McCain: Captive For Freedom | After enduring more than five harrowing years (much of it in solitary confinement) as a prisoner of war in Vietnam,... | Anonymous | 35 | |
| Anecdotes | Star of David | Shortly after occupying Denmark, Hitler decreed that all Danish Jews would have to wear a yellow star of David armband.... | Anonymous | 28 | |
| Anecdotes | The Just | Under the Athenian system of ostracism, each citizen could vote to have a man banished by scratching the specified name on... | Anonymous | 25 | |
| Anecdotes | Patently Obvious | Though he personally earned nothing from its sale, Jonas Salk actively publicized his newly-discovered polio... | Anonymous | 23 | |
| Anecdotes | Subversive Notion | Jane Addams` antiwar stance during World War I - and her insistence that even subversives were entitled to fair trials... | Anonymous | 20 |
