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- If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient…
- The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
- Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no…
- We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a…
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