You gave us the aha moment, which has taken a life of its own, spawning self-help books, public service announcements and a slew of sitcom punch lines.

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Instead, working life will start to resemble its old self before the internet was invented.

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Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has veered from being one of the country's most powerful politicians in its post-independence history to living a quiet life of self-imposed exile in London and Dubai.

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In fact the most debilitating symptom of depression is when life no longer produces anything that can free its victim from the dead weight of selfish self-consciousness.

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Although the books and audiovisual resources give inmates a general opportunity in any case to direct their thoughts away from the prison environment, the main value of the prison library is in providing its users with the option of further education and self-reflection, obtaining life skills and improving their reading skills.

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Improv, by its very nature requires fresh looks at life as we know it, with a kind of internal self-sufficiency.

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This week on Mars, Curiosity took its first sniff of Martian air and took a self-portrait, but it found no signs of life.

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At once a confessional and a manifesto, Mr. Fischl's book, written with Michael Stone, will move readers with its tales of a fraught life in art, engage them with its fluent exploration of art-making and likely annoy quite a few with its self-absorption and bombastic pronouncements.

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