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		<title>Example of love and compassion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we had a tragedy in our neighborhood. A young boy was struck by a car driven by an under age driver on a local street. As you might guess the family of the young boy that was killed has been devastated.  The family of the under age driver have also been devastated by all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/example-of-love-and-compassion/</link>
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		<title>How Many Humans Do You Know?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, when my granddaughter was 5 years old, I was busy copying some home videos onto DVDs.  We had a small television sitting on our kitchen counter hooked up to the various machines to make transfers work.  It was a rather tedious process of putting in the video tape and allow it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/08/31/how-many-humans-do-you-know/</link>
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		<title>What Really Matters in Life - Personal Integrity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Principle - Your personal integrity takes a lifetime to build and only a few minutes to loose.  Many people will judge you entirely on your integrity.
Living in a small farming and ranching community was not easy for a forest ranger in the 1960s.  Tremendous pressure was being placed on the Forest Service to reduce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/what-really-matters-in-life-personal-integrity/</link>
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		<title>What Really Matters in Life - A Sense of Humor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Principle – Humor can relieve the pressure of a tense moment, lift one from a depressing thought, and improve the atmosphere of a dreary room.
It was nearly impossible as a young man to grow up in a small farming community in Utah without being a hunter of some sort.  It was nearly a right of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/what-really-matters-in-life-a-sense-of-humor/</link>
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		<title>What Really Matters in Life - Do Your Best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Principle – By doing your best, others will recognize and reward your efforts.
Music was motivation in its purest form to Quig.  He had a real love affair with great music.  As a college student he would sing at a downtown restaurant for his supper.  He was also keenly aware that he would not be afforded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/what-really-matters-in-life-do-your-best/</link>
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		<title>What Really Matters in Life - Patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Principle – Displays of patience build trust and welcomes kindness.
I was a wannabe fisherman.  What is a reasonable number of times that a father should bait the hook of a little boy that whips the hook out of the water too soon and too fast?  The answer to that question seemed to be any number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/what-really-matters-in-life-patience/</link>
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		<title>What Really Matters In Life - Self Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Principle – The mastery of self control will be witnessed by others as a strength, not a weakness.
Even at age eighty, Quig’s grip was more than firm.  He had the ability to bring a grimace to anyone who shook hands with him.  We used to climb on his back while he did push [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/07/05/what-matters-most-self-control/</link>
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		<title>What Really Matters In Life - Service, Sacrifice, and Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Principle – Service and sacrifice expands our capacity to love.
Holding some positions in life requires tough decisions that not everyone will agree with.  I remember more than one pushing match as a kid, initiated by a rancher’s son who thought it was unfair to cut back grazing on the Fishlake National Forest.  I am confident [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/06/29/what-really-matters-in-life-service-sacrifice-and-love/</link>
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		<title>What Really Matters in Life - First Things First</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Principle – You can’t run if you don’t know how to walk.
I was one of those kids whose birthday was late enough in the summer that I could have started school a gear later. I graduated from high school at age 17.  As most high school graduates, I was smart enough to tackle the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/06/22/what-matters-most-in-life-first-things-first/</link>
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		<title>What Really Matters in Life - Respect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Principle – Respect grows from our actions.  We gain other’s respect through our own actions that demonstrate respect.
To a certain extent the principle of respect seems circular – respect begets respect.  Other’s will show us respect as they witness us being respectful to others and their property.  By some measures Quig cut [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://storiesthatlift.com/wordpress/2008/06/08/what-matters-most-in-life-respect/</link>
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