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The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

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Peter Kreeft
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 16
Philosopher
Professor
Theologian
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Peter John Kreeft
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