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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy a

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. – Joseph Butler

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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. – Joseph Butler

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Happiness
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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. – Joseph Butler

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Happiness
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Joseph Butler
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. – Joseph Butler

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Happiness
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We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food. – Kevin Richardson

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I love spaghetti and meatballs… I eat a lot. – Susan Lucci

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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy. – Ted Allen

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Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars wont be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food. – Alexandra Paul

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We get strength and encouragement from watching children. – Hayao Miyazaki

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People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad. – Bobby Knight

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