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For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.

Elise M. Boulding

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Elise M. Boulding
Age: 89 †
Born: 1920
Born: July 6
Died: 2010
Died: June 24
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Feminist
Pacifist
Sociologist
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Oslo
Norway
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