Quote by Dennis Prager
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capabl

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. – Dennis Prager

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Although images of perfection in peoples personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies – utopian images – can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. – Dennis Prager

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Society
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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? – Dennis Prager

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Age
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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderers life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered persons family. – Dennis Prager

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Family
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Happiness
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Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz

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Happiness

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. – Adam Weishaupt

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Happiness

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. – Bernard Cornwell

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Happiness

One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. – Gustave Flaubert

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Happiness

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A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics. – Peter Jennings

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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. – Graham Greene

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