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While studying history back in the 1990s, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss noticed something: there ...

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When Americans think back to the War of Independence, most are apt to feel that, had they lived back then, ...

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When we think about Stoic philosophers, we typically think about the thinkers of ancient Greece and Rome, ...

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