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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation w

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

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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. – Thomas Jefferson

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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. – Chuck Norris

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So, my happiness doesnt come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. – Nicki Minaj

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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. – Euripedes

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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didnt have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. – Dave Grohl

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Todays preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science – to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swifts kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. – Robert Lanza

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