According to 2017's World Happiness Report, they also top the chart of the most contented nations on Earth.
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Meanwhile, even in Wales, long the most contented member of the union, independence has crept back on the agenda.
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You will be able to discern what makes you happiest and most contented in other aspects of your life.
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Despite Iceland's cruel climate, its remoteness and its winters of 19 hours of darkness per day, the people there are among the most contented in the world.
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She was noted for having provided O'Casey with "one of the most contented home lives in literary history", supporting the family through periods of financial difficulties and her husband's blindness in later life.
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Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Buffalo Ward 24, Erie, New York; Roll: 1032; Page: 18B; Enumeration District: 0205; FHL microfilm: 1241032. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. In January 1899, The Sporting Life described him as "one of the most contented men in Buffalo these days", attending to his cigar business, and "ever ready to talk base ball." Rowe became ill in 1910 and moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to live with his daughter, Helen.
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In 2015 the university was named the Times Higher Education's Best University Workplace based on the 'key indicators' of 'Whose staff are the most contented?' in the publication's survey of employee attitudes. A focus on sustainability has resulted in Edge Hill winning a Green Flag Award as well as a commendation in the 2011 Green Gown Awards made by the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges. Times Higher Education awarded Edge Hill University the University of the Year title in 2014/15, following earlier shortlistings in 2011/12, 2010/11 and 2007/8.
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Both New York Times critic Vincent Canby and author Josef Gugler called the film "patronizing" towards the San people. Canby wrote that the San in the film "are seen to be frightfully quaint if not downright cute", and compared the film's narrator's statement that the San "must be the most contented people in the world" to "exactly the sort of thing that Mussolini might have said when he got those trains running on time." Gugler considered both the film's narrator and the character of Mpudi condescending, writing that "even if Mpudi feels for the San people, he is just as patronizing as the narrator: 'They are the sweetest little buggers. In response to accusations of patronization, Uys said that "I don't think the film is patronizing.
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He wrote to his sister about Jenny in 1838: > the keeper showed her an apple, but would not give it her, whereupon she > threw herself on her back, kicked & cried, precisely like a naughty child.— > She then looked very sulky & after two or three fits of pashion, the keeper > said, "Jenny if you will stop bawling & be a good girl, I will give you the > apple."— She certainly understood every word of this, &, though like a > child, she had great work to stop whining, she at last succeeded, & then got > the apple, with which she jumped into an arm chair & began eating it, with > the most contented countenance imaginable. Jenny's reaction reminded Darwin of the behaviour of children, and he noted that she showed facial expressions of "rage, sulkiness and despair".
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