“One of the basic human rights is to make fun of people. It is now threatened.”
Anthony Powell, A Writer’s Notebook
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The World Happiness Report 2015 also comes in advance of
three high-level negotiations that will give world leaders the opportunity to
reshape the global agenda and move the world towards a sustainable development
agenda that includes well-being as an essential element. “The aspiration of
society is the flourishing of its members,” said Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the
Earth Institute, Columbia University. “This report gives evidence on how to
achieve societal well-being. It’s not by money alone, but also by fairness,
honesty, trust, and good health. The evidence here will be useful to all
countries as they pursue the new Sustainable Development Goals.”
Life’s hardest lessons are often learned most easily when taught with a smile. Crash Davis, the over-the-hill catcher in “Bull Durham,” taught his girlfriend, a believer in reincarnation, a priceless lesson in the vanity of human wishes by asking her this teasing question: “How come in former lifetimes, everybody is someone famous?” George Grossmith, the author of “The Diary of a Nobody,” put his finger on a similarly hard truth—most of us, no matter how well we may think of ourselves, are unimportant to the rest of the world—with equally diverting results Imrich nobody who are you