Chapter X : Beyond Youth: Recovery Of Self, p. 279
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Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

— Charles A. Reich

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us." in the context of "Chapter X : Beyond Youth: Recovery Of Self, p. 279" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Charles A. Reich

About Charles A. Reich

Charles Alan Reich (20 May 1928 – 15 June 2019) was an American legal and social scholar and a Professor at Yale Law School famous as the author of the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America.