And social comparisons are more powerful determinants of life satisfaction in poorer societies than in affluent countries.
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Whether your talents are publicly obvious or not, they can become very powerful in your life if you recognize them, develop them, and appreciate them.
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He had powerful friends all his life, and a couple of them, higher-ups in the Church, interceded with the Pope on his behalf.
Building on a decade-long census of marine life, these powerful tools provide quantitative baselines of biodiversity at the regional and global level.
He says music has always been a "powerful force" in his life, but he had always lacked the confidence to create it himself.
The drive to experience and explore the world has been the most powerful force of my own life for as long as I can remember.
Oh yes, and given the demonstrated link between having health insurance and living longer, it may also be a pretty powerful piece of pro-life legislation.
More than the death of a human being, this ends the life of a powerful symbol of terrorism and destruction, said Nadine Kaslow, psychologist at Emory University.
Money, as the West has been able to understand since its inception thousands of years ago, is one of the most powerful equalizing forces in human life.
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She has had sponsors in her life who were very powerful, who went to bat for her.
When you have a vision that inspires you, it leaves you feeling purposeful and powerful in every aspect of your life.
Featuring a simple, single cord set-up, the new space-saving Inspiron all-in-one computers make life easy and deliver powerful entertainment for the whole family.
Revenge is still a powerful motivating force in Iraqi social life.
Mr. DE PREIST: She knew that she was Marian Anderson, but my aunt was simultaneously the most humble person I ever met in my life and the most powerful.
All this is necessary to any performance in life which is magnetic, powerful, rich in meaning.
She can make ingenuousness seem noble, by expressing a powerful will to find the best in life.
Underpinning all three movements is a powerful presumption enjoying a new lease on life, that that the future is ours to create.
Unexpectedly, in 1830, the Plymouth district elected him to the House of Representatives, and there for the remainder of his life he served as a powerful leader.
Your decision to ignore all the noise might make you feel powerless, while in all reality, it makes you quite powerful and more in control of your life and financial success.
The tendency of the powerful to disregard advice has numerous and sometimes life-altering consequences.
But even the most powerful sea changes in the mechanics of everyday life may do little more than just refine our perspective on what remain durably fixed ideas and ideals.
But Mr Friedman has written about the law less as a collection of rules and judgments, and more as a reflection of powerful social forces shaping all aspects of American life.
Time was running out for Carver, and he recognised that poetry not onlycould say everything that needed to be said in fewer words, but was able to capture the emotional peaks and troughs of his life, to provide the most powerful and efficient vehicle for that final reckoning of everything that he had ever been.
"Chavez (was) a very powerful personality, very charismatic person, larger than life, and most media attention went to him, " Golinger said.
This ability to capture the frayed nerve endings of family life caught the attention of the most powerful talk show host in America.
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But the only way to find out would be a big clinical trial, powerful enough to show whether Natrecor shortens or extends life.
Very much a work of art rather than of history, this beautifully written novel edges towards saying something profound about the relationships between art and life, men and women, the powerful and the disempowered, without ever becoming a simplistic parable.
The Walt Disney Co. shoved out Nina Jacobson , the head of live-action production at its Walt Disney studios and No. 94 on last year's list of the World's Most Powerful Women, after misfires such as the The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Alamo.
"This work is so powerful and poignant, telling much about Picasso's life, " Mr. Vincze says.
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