Quote by Alastair Campbell
By asking the question Am I happy?, and via the answer setting out

By asking the question Am I happy?, and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question – Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try? – Alastair Campbell

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May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen – classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queens Christmas Day broadcast. – Alastair Campbell

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Christmas
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My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals. – Alastair Campbell

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dad
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. – Alastair Campbell

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Happiness
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The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. – Heinrich Mann

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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. – Aristotle

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But happiness is no respecter of persons. – Stephen Fry

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You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. – Brad Garrett

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Real change isnt found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all. – Guy Finley

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If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. – Allen Nevins

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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. – James Thurber

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I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but Ive been lucky to have visited most of them before, because Ive done a tremendous amount of travel. – Phil Keoghan

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