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The Good Life → If you commonly use these phrases, you’re more intelligent than you may realize
Human Nature → The strange pride we take in being busy
Lives & Ideas → Simone Weil and the philosophy of attention
In Their Words → Thought of the day from Stoic philosopher Seneca: “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it”

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