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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

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Happiness,

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William Dean Howells
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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. An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
  • 2. Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
  • 3. I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

2 Amazing

  • 1. They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.
  • 2. The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices – just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing – it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.
  • 3. There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day a pagan ceremony.

3 Anger

  • 1. The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
  • 2. It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'
  • 3. Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
  • 2. So while an incredible amount of progress has been made on this fifth anniversary I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back all the way.
  • 3. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
  • 2. The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
  • 3. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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