Just when we were bonding, and feeling better about our boss and our jobs in general, we had to self-evaluate.

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But you do come away feeling a bit better-informed about the thinking of our central bank and its governor.

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"Ryan Sidebottom has been our number one bowler for the last 12 months or so and has been feeling better with his injury, " he explained.

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Corporate giving is in danger of mirroring our public approach to feeling morally adequate throw money at a suitably eclectic group of hands, or, even better, at organizations and institutions that will do this for us.

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Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking around smiling, trying to earn enough to eat, while neurotically doing these little self-proofs in our head about how much better we are than these other slobs, while simultaneously, in another part of our brain, secretly feeling woefully inadequate to these smarter, more beautiful people.

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