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I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a question of what categories we want to spend more on and what categories we want feel that we are spending too much on and we want to cut down.

Dan Ariely

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Dan Ariely
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 29
Economist
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