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Everybody knows people who are dreadfully unhappy, and yet can put on a happy face

It’s not rigid. It has a set of default responses, but they’re extremely malleable to experience.

The 28 percent who said they had read an ebook in the past year has remained relatively steady in the past two years.

When you’ve been toiling through the sucking ooze, with submerged roots and branches grabbing at your ankles, dry solid ground feels almost miraculous.

I’m 69 later this year — and I’ve had a pretty good run.

It’s still very hard to entirely grasp how something so utterly ordinary can be equally miraculous and profound

Hopefully, the new guest pod’s heater fares a bit better… it gets pretty cold down there at night!

Even though each of these plants are not only highly nutritious, they're quite tasty.

And a bland, plastic, synthetic, universal can’t-tell-one-brand-of-coffee-from-another-brand-of-coffee by contrast makes life flat, uninteresting, and essentially uncreative.

My heart sank

After six months of contract disputes we were able to bring back most of our laid off employees

Have a soft spot for someone/something

remarkable

Adventurer Thor Heyerdahl wrote up his experiences crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a papyrus boat and noted his dismay at finding bits of tar and other garbage along the route

people have latched onto this like the philosopher's stone and clung to it

The support incited some grumbling

After Pepsi released its ad out into the world, many social-media reactions were tongue-in-cheek offers

People may scoff at the idea, but once they realize ...

But as utterly terrifying as Jaws has been made out to be, it’s also one of the most visually stimulating spectacles one could ever witness

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