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The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

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Andrew Weil
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 8
Medical Doctor
Medical Writer
Physician
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Andrew Thomas Weil
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