There is an expression in Iran that applies to the international community You can wake only someone who is sleeping, not someone who is pretending to be asleep.

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5aled_DH I hope this is the spark that wakes up the nation from its slumber

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There is an expression in Iran that applies to the international community You can wake only someone who is sleeping, not someone who is pretending to be asleep.

But the stunning developments coming out of the chess world during the past decade should still command your attention.

And if you find one that you're interested in, you can actually click on it and open up an information panel where you're able to rate that frame, which helps it bubble up to the top.

In this short talk, Arianna Huffington shares a small idea that can awaken much bigger ones the power of a good night's sleep. Instead of bragging about our sleep deficits, she urges us to shut our eyes and see the big picture We can sleep our way to increased productivity and happiness and smarter decision making.

If you spend five minutes with somebody, you start looking beyond their facial appearance, and the people who you're initially attracted to may seem boring and you lose interest in them, and the people who you didn't immediately seek out, because you didn't find them particularly attractive, become attractive people because of their personality.