Word: feels
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...rediscover the sense of wonder in our souls, we need to first fully embrace an ethos of exploration. Resting on one's laurels contributes to the malaise we may feel at times, so instead we ought to be eager for novelty and uncertainty in our investigation of poetry, philosophy, literature, art, religion and even our own relationships. One cannot know when a sense of wonder and inspiration will engulf one while enjoying these pursuits, but the feeling will be of unmistakable ecstasy when it finally strikes...
William Butler Yeats feared a world in which "the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity." Yeats would see it as tragic that pit-dwellers feel their suburban angst more passionately than Harvard students feel touched by art or philosophy. We can yet disprove Yeats' fears, so long as we remember that intellectual rigor and our desire for mastery in dealings with others need not preclude a healthy sense of intensity, longing, curiosity and wonder...
...Despite physical injuries, we feel really great mentally about this weekend," sophomore Jesse Gunderson said...
...surprising that many of the new deals have an American feel: Europe's latest merger boom is being shaped by armies of pinstriped investment bankers jetting in from Wall Street. In fact, two banks based in New York City, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, overtook their European rivals for the first time in 1998 and became the top two advisers for takeovers in Europe in terms of the value of deals they helped bring about, according to Securities Data/Thomson Financial. "I believe there's going to be a lot more hostile activity," predicts Wilder Fulford, a managing director for mergers...
...Francisco, educator Albert Cheng, who has traced 2,800 years of his family history, leads a program for the Chinese Culture Foundation, which takes groups of Chinese-American youths back to their ancestral villages each summer after they have researched family and archival records in the U.S. "Now I feel proud of who I am," said 25-year-old Julia Fong, who met her great-grandmother, now 99, in Guangdong province. "She was feisty; she had no teeth and a wonderful smile...