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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must origin

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. – Clara Barton

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. – Clara Barton

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Faith
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Clara Barton
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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. – Clara Barton

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Fear
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Clara Barton
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think thats where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness. – Alastair Campbell

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When youre happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and thats a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. – Suze Orman

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“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. – A.A. Milne

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Happiness

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler

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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong. – Barbara Bush

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I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment. – Dean R. Koontz, Seize the Night

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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille

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