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Idleness

I Will Stand Idly By

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 12.12.2011 | Fifty
Read More: Success, Life Goals, Idleness, Aristotle, Retirement, Peace, healthpost50, Fifty News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Perhaps the true sign of success is the ability to free oneself from work to engage in the active process of what Aristotle called idleness, the effortfully investigation of life to 'know oneself.'

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Is Italian Slang Sexist?

Marta Mondelli | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Anger, Idleness, Synecdoche, Italian Mrime Minister, Bad Luck, Sfiga, Italian Slang, Women's Rights, Healthy Living News
Marta Mondelli

I feel incredibly "incazzata" for this "sfiga" that hit us. I wonder: can we Italian women snap out of this "scazzo" and prove we can do better?

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The Benefits Of Being Lazy

GOOD Magazine | Tom Hodgkinson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Idleness, Laziness, Tom Hodgkinson, Healthy Living News

Tom Hodgkinson's books sometimes end up in bookstores' self-help sections. That would make How to Be Idle and The Freedom Manifesto the only books to ...

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