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“What is it, then, that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does…
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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life.” —Commencement address, Stanford…
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Well, as I write this, we are once again shaking our heads due to the tragedy of a mass shooting here in our country. Not surprisingly, people already are writing about the need for gun control, fears about those who want gun control, mental health issues, and terrorism. Many of us are scared, either specifically about…