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All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Dennis Prager

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Dennis Prager
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 2
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Dennis Mark Prager
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