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  1. Jonathan Haidt _ The Happiness Hypothesis:

    Leo Tolstoy wrote: "One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."19
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  2. Jonathan Haidt _ The Righteous Mind: Why Good

    As I continued to read the writings of conservative intellectuals, from Edmund Burke in the eighteenth century through Friedrich Hayek and Thomas Sowell in the twentieth, I began to see that they had attained a crucial insight into the sociology of morality that I had never encountered before. They understood the importance of what I'll call moral capital. {Please note that I am praising conservative intellectuals, not the Republican Party.}36
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  3. Jonathan Haidt _ The Righteous Mind: Why Good

    European travelers to every continent witnessed people coming together to dance with wild abandon around a fire, synchronized to the beat of drums, often to the point of exhaustion. In Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, Barbara Ehrenreich describes how European explorers reacted to these dances: with disgust.
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  4. Jonathan Haidt _ The Happiness Hypothesis:

    Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well. -EPICTETUS
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