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• The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and…
• Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.
• Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot…
• The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad…
• The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of…
• What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in…
• Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the…
• In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people…
• People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.
• We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think…
• Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.
• When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a…

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