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Little Happier: When One Proverb Sparks Dozens: the Inspiration of “No Receiver, No Thief”

Category: Health
Duration: 00:05:37
Publish Date: 2025-04-14 07:00:00
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While writing my book "Secrets of Adulthood," I discovered how the structure of a single traditional proverb could spark dozens of new insights. The elegant formula "No X, no Y" began with the traditional wisdom "No receiver, no thief," but soon expanded into observations ranging from the paradoxical ("No expectations, no disappointment") to the historical ("No Plato, No Socrates ") to the practical ("More highways, more traffic"). 

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