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" Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. "
George Orwell
Life
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" Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "
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" The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence. "
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" One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. "
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" Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. "
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" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. "
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" Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. "
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" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "
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" There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. "
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" In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. "
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" Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. "
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" Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. "
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" Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. "
William E. Gladstone
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" The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. "
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" Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. "
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" Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice. "
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" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "
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" It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. "
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" Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. "
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" Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. "
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" In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. "
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" The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. "
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