By Michael Pollan — 2008
Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer.
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong.
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If you're feeling angry about the daily barrage of negative news in our disconnected culture, author and activist Sister Joan Chittister says we all have to ask ourselves: "What are we going to do about it?" Here, Oprah reveals why Sister Joan's advice was a wake-up call for her.
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