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Happiness is a byproduct of function purpose and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

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William S. Burroughs
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Category: Happiness

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
  • 2. I knew at a young age whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse that my teammates were counting on me whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
  • 3. 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.

2 Amazing

  • 1. After all these years it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies not the same lousy economy.
  • 2. And I thought when I have kids that's the sort of well told silly and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic a fairy tale classic.
  • 3. Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

3 Anger

  • 1. When you are offended at any man's fault turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
  • 2. Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time anger at what we can't do fear or even disgust at growing old.
  • 3. Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.
  • 2. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
  • 3. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.
  • 2. The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
  • 3. Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
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