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Sometimes we are tempted to confuse “good times” with a “good life”. Many a life may be regarded – and experienced by the subject as good, yet may comprise a relatively scant measure of what is commonly called fun and enjoyment. Among those who hold an examined view of the subject, few would deny that a fair share of goodness of life befell to such persons as Abraham Lincoln, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer. Hardly anyone, however, would say that these person’s lives were marked by lots of fun. Such contamination of the notion of the good life with that of a good time obscures and distorts the issue.” (Michael Novak in Harpers magazine)