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Thank you Dr. Fears for all your life’s lessons. I will take them with me wherever I go and teach them to whom I can. I already have changed my life because of you since 2008. Your course on Life’s lessons from great books was by far the greatest. Your last course life’s lessons from great myths is also wonderful. However, it was Famous Greeks and Romans that sold me on this idea of life’s lessons. You told the story with such passion, I would tear up and feel true humility. We no longer live this way, but someday I will teach others with the hope that we may someday truly be great though the lessons learned from the past.