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Painting As A Pastime

Time pressure and drivenness are defining marks of our modern world. But in such an era, it is a low-tech traditional discipline that offers the greatest relief and perspective: Solitude. Taking time away alone from daily stresses is increasingly important. For Churchill, time spent alone painting provided a meaningful and necessary course of mental refreshment.

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Painting As A Pastime

Painting As A Pastime

Winston S. Churchill
Time pressure and drivenness are defining marks of our modern world. But in such an era, it is a low-tech traditional discipline that offers the greatest relief and perspective: Solitude. Taking time away alone from daily stresses is increasingly important. For Churchill, time spent aloneRead More
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Time pressure and drivenness are defining marks of our modern world. But in such an era, it is a low-tech traditional discipline that offers the greatest relief and perspective: Solitude. Taking time away alone from daily stresses is increasingly important. For Churchill, time spent alone painting provided a meaningful and necessary course of mental refreshment.

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The Revenge of Failure

The Revenge of Failure

Henry Fairlie, Mary Gordon, and Alexander Theroux
The Culture of Envy and Rage
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The Culture of Envy and Rage

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How Much Land Does A Man Need?

How Much Land Does A Man Need?

Leo Tolstoy
What is the meaning of money? What is success? How should we pursue happiness? How much is enough? Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), the Russian writer and social reformer, famous for writing the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Born to a noble, landed family, hisRead More
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What is the meaning of money? What is success? How should we pursue happiness? How much is enough?

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), the Russian writer and social reformer, famous for writing the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Born to a noble, landed family, his early years were marked by a dissolute life and a violent reaction to the horrors of the Crimean War. In 1862 he married and settled down, producing thirteen children and a burst of literary successes. But after writing Anna Karenina he experienced a profound spiritual crisis and renounced his literary ambitions, believing them to be incompatible with his deepest convictions. His numerous later works were on religious and moral subjects.

How Much Land Does a Man Need?, written in 1886, and translated from the Russian by Louise and Aylmer Maude, is from this later period.
It is an enduring story that reveals the sometimes insidious and sometimes overt destructiveness of greed and challenges us to question our own self-awareness.

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