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Children See - Childern Do

A close friend of mine, Lital Kfir, just shared this powerful video with me. How very true it is…

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Personalized Famous Quotes Video Greeting

Our most recent addition to QuotesDaddy is Flash video greetings that can be personalized for a specific person. Users just enter the name and the video is customized to that person. You also get a personalized sub domain link of the personal greeting.
Here’s how a greeting customized to my name looks: http://maya.elhalal.quotesdaddy.com/
You can customize the [...]

Why Our Bad Eating Habbits Put the Entire Planet at Risk

In this very entertaining TED talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk. I was surprised to discover just how disastrous [...]

Vitus. Beautiful, Witty, Moving.

This 2006 film tells the story of a highly gifted boy whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for. He on the other hand, has other plans in mind…
With some extraordinary beautiful scenes, witty dialogs and moving story line, I highly recommend this movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfAZ0nBV1Zg

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Some people believe in coincidences. I’m not one of them.

“I always wondered…
when a butterfly leaves the safety of it’s cocoon,
does it realize how beautiful I has become,
or does it still just see itself as a caterpillar?”
This is the opening monologue of a brilliant movie I saw last night, The Air I Breathe. It’s based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into [...]