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Inspirational news
Ten years ago, in 2014, the philosopher Alain de Botton published one of his less successful books: The News, A User’s Manual. De Botton took aim at news outlets, suggesting they were sensationalist, fleeting and superficial, failed to represent the vast majority of people’s experiences, and obsessed with celebrities and disasters. He suggested that, even…
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What matters
“Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors …” Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas For Oscar Wilde, a cynic was someone who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. Many of us are cynical now. Perhaps, to paraphrase Wilde,…