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I don’t think that quotation means what we think it means. Beauty will not save the world and anyway Dostoevsky didn’t say it and anyways
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In my mid-20s — half an age (mine) and still nearly nil on maturity ago — I noticed a thing that at the time was
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How to be really great Your life will be immeasurably great — incalculably awesome — if you put others in place of … you. We
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects
I Am The Fat Guy
One New Year’s Eve I was in Big Bear with friends. I was in college and we’d been coming up the mountain for a few
All Hat No Cattle
The men I respected most when I wrote about the golf business — and being the golf business they were mostly men — were course
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