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Hedonic adaptation is an event or mechanism that reduces the affective impact of substantial emotional events. Generally, hedonic adaptation involves a happiness "set point", whereby humans generally maintain a constant level of happiness throughout their lives, despite events that occur in their environment.
Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space with the entertainment system displaying "DON'T PANIC" In the series, Don't Panic is a phrase on the cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [4] The novel explains that this was partly because the device "looked insanely complicated" to operate, and partly to keep interstellar travellers from panicking ...
"My body / my choice" sign at a Stop Abortion Bans Rally in St Paul, Minnesota, May 2019 "My body / My choice" at Women's March San Francisco, January 2018. My body, my choice is a slogan describing freedom of choice on issues affecting the body and health, such as bodily autonomy, abortion and end-of-life care.
The essay became the basis for a successful spoken word song released in 1997 by Baz Luhrmann, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)", also known as "The Sunscreen Song". [ 4 ] [ 3 ] The song reached number one in Ireland and the United Kingdom and inspired numerous parodies .
“It’s really chickenshit. You’ve just decided you’re going to live here. I could do it too. I could just say, ‘Fuck it, I quit.’ It’s better than killing yourself. No one’s angry at you. They keep feeding you your drugs and feeling sorry for you. And you just keep on crying like that. But no one feels sorry for us.”
For the treatment centers, the revolving door may be financially lucrative. “It’s a service that rewards the failure of the service,” Johnson said. “If you are going to a program, you don’t succeed and you pay X-thousand dollars. When you fail, you go back — another X-thousand dollars. Because it’s your fault.”
Relationships keep us grounded and bonded to each other. Service, from formal volunteering to informal small acts of kindness, is about helping each other. And purpose gives our life a sense of ...
A Charge to Keep (W.H.D. Koerner) The title of the book comes from the hymn, "A Charge to Keep I Have" (1762) by Charles Wesley. Wesley's title is a paraphrase of Leviticus 8:35: "keep the charge of the LORD, so that you may not die." A painting by W.H.D. Koerner, lent to Bush, shows a horseman charging up a rugged mountain trail, followed by ...