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The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.
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Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.
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I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.
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Not everyone strives to be fashionable. I don't, and I believe I succeed.
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that envy and a sense of injustice are not always that easily distinguished, let alone extricated, one from the other.
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It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.
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And it is a good thing that many ideas have a relatively short shelf-life. Some because they are bad, even pernicious ideas: the Master Race, the class struggle, the Oedipus complex, and Socialism are four bad ideas with wretched consequences that come immediately to mind.
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