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In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.

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I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.

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Paul Brand

Paul Brand

Born: July 17, 1914
Died: July 8, 2003 (aged 88)
Bio: Dr. Paul Wilson Brand, CBE was a pioneer in developing tendon transfer techniques for use in the hands of those with leprosy.
Known for:
  1. Pain - the Gift Nobody Wants (1982)
  2. Fearfully & Wonderfully Made (1980)
  3. How to Repair Your Car
  4. Clinical mechanics of the hand (1985)
  5. The making of the common law (1992)

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