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underlying cause

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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness? Daisaku Ikeda

Perhaps an underlying cause [of doubt as to the future of information science] is in some cases... the apprehension that information science may become "submerged” in the larger field of computer science. Brian Campbell Vickery

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