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Quote by Bertrand Russell
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumst

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. – Bertrand Russell

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. – Bertrand Russell

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When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important. – Daniel Kahneman

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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham

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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. – Harlan Coben

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