Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And … - Nathaniel Branden

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Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue'. . . Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.

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Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

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