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Arthritic Toothless People Who Love Orgasms Are More Likely To Reproduce Than Are Limber, Toothy People Who Do Not.

The Mistakes We Make When We Try To Imagine Our Personal Futures Are Also Lawful, Regular, And Systematic. They, Too, Have A Pattern That Tells Us About The Powers And Limits Of Foresight In Much The Same Way That Optical Illusions Tell Us About The Powers And Limits Of Eyesight.

I Have Everything That I Could Possibly Want In Life, From A Gorgeous Granddaughter And A Wonderful Wife, Brilliant Students, The Best Job Anyone Could Hope For, And About Half Of My Hair. Not The Half I Would Have Kept, But No One Consulted Me.

We All Have Direct Experience With Things That Do Or Don't Make Us Happy, We All Have Friends, Therapists, Cabdrivers, And Talk-show Hosts Who Tell Us About Things That Will Or Won't Make Us Happy, And Yet, Despite All This Practice And All This Coaching, Our Search For Happiness Often Culminates In A Stinky Mess. We Expect The Next Car, The Next House, Or The Next Promotion To Make Us Happy Even Though The Last Ones Didn't And Even Though Others Keep Telling Us That The Next Ones Won't.

Human Beings Are Works In Progress That Mistakenly Think They're Finished.