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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. – Thomas Jefferson

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Knowledge
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Thomas Jefferson
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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Slavery
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. – Lucan

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Happiness

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object. – Hermann Hesse

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Happiness

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. – Herbert Spencer

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We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

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My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment. – Twyla Tharp

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Putting lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel. – Roger Simon, 1988

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Old age isnt so bad when you consider the alternative. – Maurice Chevalier

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