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Contemplating one's life is key to fulfilled happiness. Thoreau's theme revolves around the simple life well lived. He clearly never tried virtual reality games.
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All right we're back to the passage The rose finest
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young was going to be awaken into marcel's awake while
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reading a book You liked working with your doubt Railroads
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Which line provides support for the answer to the previous
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question Which of the following best describes the theme of
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this passage And we're going to say the answer is
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b why Well thoreau says what he's saying which is
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good because if he weren't saying it then someone else
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would be saying it and this wouldn't be feroze book
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Alex can i buy the word dove for two hundred
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Hdtv advises people to keep their affairs and accounts down
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Teo no more than a handful were sure he would
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have made an exception for people who aren't very coordinated
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And you no need to use both hands though making
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every moment of one's life worthy of contemplation is not
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really all that simple Yeah goodbye eh It actually sounds
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pretty difficult Living simply does provide the time to accomplish
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such a feat Self The way commerce rolls over human
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lives is a good reason toe move to the woods
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but taken on its own while the quotes about the
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dangers of modern conveniences not embracing simplicity at like oh
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those indoor toilets well they explode all the time right
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Well similarly the level of complication in everyday life distracts
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people from what they could accomplish if they lived simply
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but well that's part of the support for throws theme
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here it doesn't encapsulate the theme itself So Yet okay 00:01:21.905 --> [endTime] that's it good luck answer was b the internet
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