Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
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A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

