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Pragmatism
While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.
  • Author: Dalai Lama
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Source type: Book
Ethics for the New Millenium
Page 52
Published by Riverhead Books , New York , 2001
Contribution #2801


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