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Rabbi Daniel Lapin

My Motorcycle Ride: How Missionaries + Waterfalls = Civilization - 2/4/17

Feb 4, 2017
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How Christian missionaries brought democracy to Africa. Dr. Livingstone I presume. How religion’s Biblical values can build nations as well as people. Why I rode a motorcycle through Africa in 1969 and how I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Impulse control is really useful to build a successful life. Parents must model and teach it early. No impulse control? No problem; you now have a mental disability. Take two tablets and shoot me in the morning. The disastrous Boston Big Dig took 25 years and cost ten times more than planned. California’s Big Creek hydro project continues still today to supply 1000 megawatts of electricity to Los Angeles. It was built under budget and under schedule—back in 1910. One reason America may never build big projects again.

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