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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the a

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of ones values. – Ayn Rand

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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arent enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. – Ayn Rand

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Government
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Ayn Rand
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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand

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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotles Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. – Charles Van Doren

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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek. – John Buchanan Robinson

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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world. – Taylor Caldwell

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How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. – Gerald Jampolsky

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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. – Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898

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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle. – Henry David Thoreau

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My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age. – Anna Kendrick

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