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Another study summarized in Scientific American finds that gratitude is the single best predictor of well-being and good relationships, beating out twenty-four other impressive traits such as hope, love, and creativity.
“We are not now that strength which in old days / Moved earth and heaven.” ”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
“These people will get their chance not in the moment of defeat but in some stagnant period when boredom is reinforced by discontent. They will not talk about surrender, only about peace;”
― The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
― The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
“small share of the world’s pleasures. I had suffered and I was owed.”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
“While democratic theorists failed to measure the full dimensions and the dynamic quality of human vitalities”
― The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
― The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
“Almost a third of the country’s thirty-five hundred physicians served with the Continental Army”
― The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
― The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780
Pete’s 2025 Year in Books
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