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You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

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Andrew Bernstein
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 6
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Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.
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