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  2. Who Moved My Cheese? - Wikipedia

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    Several high school classmates meet after a class reunion and discuss the challenge of handling the changes in their lives. Michael, a business manager, says that he was afraid of change until he heard an allegorical story, which he proceeds to tell. In the story, two mice and two "littlepeople" — people the size of mice — live in a maze.

  3. Original Stories from Real Life - Wikipedia

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    Modelled on Madame de Genlis's Adèle et Théodore (1782) and Tales of the Castle (1785), both of which have frame stories and a series of inset moral tales, Original Stories narrates the re-education of two young girls, fourteen-year-old Mary and twelve-year-old Caroline, by a wise and benevolent maternal figure, Mrs. Mason. (Wollstonecraft ...

  4. Morris E. Goodman - Wikipedia

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    Goodman wrote a book about his experiences, The Miracle Man: An Inspiring Story of Motivation and Courage. [1] A motivational/training short film about Morris' experience was also made, [7] and a feature film of his story, written and to be directed and produced by filmmaker Brian Jude is currently in development.

  5. Parable of the drowning man - Wikipedia

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    Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each ...

  6. The Blue Jackal - Wikipedia

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    The earliest reference to the Blue Jackal can be found in Panchatantra, a collection of stories which depict animals in human situations (see anthropomorphism, Talking animals in fiction). In each of the stories every animal has a "personality" and each story ends in a moral. [citation needed]

  7. The Book of Virtues - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Virtues (subtitled A Treasury of Great Moral Stories) is a 1993 anthology edited by William Bennett.It consists of 370 passages across ten chapters devoted to a different virtue, each of the latter escalating in complexity as they progress.

  8. Moral Injury - The Huffington Post

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    Despite her deepest fears, Joseph came home from his two combat tours at age 22, physically sound. But the demons of his moral injuries followed close behind and eventually closed in on him. It turned out, she realized too late, that coming home was more dangerous than being at war. “It wasn’t Afghanistan where he died,” she reminded me.

  9. Never Bet the Devil Your Head - Wikipedia

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    The story was published in the September 1841 issue of Graham's Magazine as "Never Bet Your Head: A Moral Tale". Its republication in the August 16, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal included its now-standard title "Never Bet the Devil Your Head". [3] Noted Poe biographer Arthur Hobson Quinn dismissed the story, stating "it is a trifle." [6]