aim in life, a human strategy, aphorism 442

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What never ceases to amaze me: how most people are not concerned in the least with an aim in life and yet seem content.  And even those who claim a life goal rarely have asked themselves whether or not it had been accidentally inherited.  Even if calculated, who could answer the question of why they were content with something beneath their admitted potential.  Contentment and a deliberate aim must be antagonistic.

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