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I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believ...more

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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad dependin...more

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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

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Yet our world of abundance, with seas of wine and alps of bread, has hardly turned out to be the ebullient place dreamt of by our ancestors in the fam...more

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For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money ...more

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It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobe...more