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- The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other,…
- What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
- I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative…
- Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation;…
- The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.
- Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
- 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…
- .. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly…
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