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Hold your horses
02Sep11
by westwood What is the most underrated virtue? In our world of excess, it is definitely self-control. I was reading this post about willpower and weight loss and getting pretty depressed. I mean really, we live in a world where we can’t stop ourselves. A world where I’ve eaten three litres of ice cream in […]
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