In this view of life, we are all responsible for our financial fates.

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Despite its occasional unfairness to others and its tics and twitches, there is, indeed, a certain grandeur to this view of life.

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In this view of Indian-Canadian family life, a grandma can guilt-trip even a god.

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The undoubted increase in average complexity in the fossil record is, according to this view, an accident of the fact that life started simple and therefore had only one direction to go in.

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In France, this less comforting view of a universe filled with alien life was adopted by an enigmatic Belgian who wrote under the pseudonym J.

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But at least this has the virtue of being entirely consistent with the church's view that life is a gift to be given and taken away only by God.

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For me this honour is a symbol of how art can change people's perception of life and view the world in a different way.

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This would be the typical view of many of the pseudo-intellectuals that now populate much of the media and intellectual public life in Argentina.

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