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Dogs Remind Us of What Matters in Life
 • Sam Alaimo
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What WWI Can Teach Us About the Meaning of Life
 • Sam Alaimo
31
Why We Should Suffer In Silence
 • Sam Alaimo
54
How Dogs Make Us Ancient Again
 • Sam Alaimo
46
Why We Should End Self-Care And Embrace Hardship
 • Sam Alaimo
47
How WWII Frogmen Can Cure Modern Despair
 • Sam Alaimo
31
What The Crucifixion Can Teach Us About Freedom
Or the Martyr's Paradox
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Sam Alaimo
24
In War, You Choose Not to Die. In Peace, You Must Choose to Live
And adjusting the course of What then?
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Sam Alaimo
31
What WWII Can Teach Us About Loving Fate
Or the curse of the Expectation Society
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Sam Alaimo
24
What John Paul Jones Can Teach Us About Bullshit
And preparing for the worst than can happen
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Sam Alaimo
25
Why We Should Stop Saving Time
Or the meaninglessness found in ease
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Sam Alaimo
33
Lessons Written In Blood, Wisdom Written In Ink
What we can learn from Epictetus and a Vietnamese helicopter pilot
 • 
Sam Alaimo
20
How To Find Self-Command In An Age Of Anxiety
And the threat of never knowing ourselves
 • 
Sam Alaimo
26
On Ph.D.s Who Can Win a Bar Fight
And why this combination is crucial
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Sam Alaimo
39
What The Grey Hairs Of A Dog Teach Us
The dog's gift of wisdom.
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Sam Alaimo
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What then?
Original philosophical essays on hardship, ease, war, pre-state, self-rule, and dogs | Former Navy SEAL
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