Many of us believe that when we feel down, we should try to focus inwardly and evaluate our feelings and our situation in order to attain self-insight and find solutions that might ultimately resolve our problems and relieve unhappiness.

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Still, he said, budget pressures don't relieve New York of what courts have said is ultimately the state's constitutional responsibility.

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