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			<div class="card-excerpt" itemprop="description"><p>Executive summary The proposition is partly defensible but not generally true without qualification. If “better” means having stronger agency, a higher chance of growth, more meaning, and better character formation, then being …</p>
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			<div class="card-excerpt" itemprop="description"><p>my new life goal… To become the most ambitious person on the planet? Not necessarily the richest? Or the most wealthy?</p>
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