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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. Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
  • 2. There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
  • 3. I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh… I'm 30 oh I'm 40 oh 50.' Make the most of it.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.
  • 2. The New York Quarterly is an amazing intelligent crazy creative strange and indispensable magazine.
  • 3. Half a century ago the amazing courage of Rosa Parks the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
  • 2. When you learn that a truth is a lie anger follows.
  • 3. If a small thing has the power to make you angry does that not indicate something about your size?

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. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
  • 3. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

5 Architecture

  • 1. French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design it looks to the community.
  • 2. So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
  • 3. Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
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