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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. – William James

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Pure experience is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. – William James

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse. – William James

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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931

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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington

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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. – Jeremy Bentham

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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. – Bertrand Russell

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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. – Muhammad Ali

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