Blaise Pascal

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Breda O’Brien: Mindfulness not the cure for all that ails us

Practice in danger of becoming another self-focused response that prevents us challenging skewed values

Pessimism might be more useful than we think – especially at Christmas

Laura Kennedy: Pascal’s work is a comfort because at this performative time of year

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Goodbye short and sweet tweets, hello big, fat, unedited windbaggery

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Why U2 got it right with ‘Love is Blindness’ and the Beatles got it wrong with ‘All You Need Is Love’

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