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June 03, 2022

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Friday, June 3, 2022

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

Meryl Streep

From time immemorial, great minds have attempted to pin down the source of happiness, and to beloved actress and three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep, joy is a fairly simple matter. “Everything else — power, influence, strength — all those things can overpower what's important in life,” she said in a 2011 interview with “The Talks.” Streep pointed out that the best pleasures in life are often the most basic human needs — the secret is to never take them for granted.

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Who said, "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"?

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