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...matter what is treated?debts, reparations, disarmament, security, credits, moneys, production, exchanges, tariffs, transports?in one word, peace and civili-zation???England and France engage themselves to prepare joint solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Accord de Confiance | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...will quarrel with his thesis: that unhappiness is widespread through civili-zation???"very largely due to mistaken views of the world, mistaken ethics, mistaken habits of life . . . matters which lie within the power of the individual." Confesses Russell: "I was not born happy. ... In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life. . . . This is due partly . . . to having discovered what were the things that I most desired . . . partly ... to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beer & Skittles* | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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