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Quote by Herbert Spencer
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most

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

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In science the important thing is to modify and change ones ideas as science advances. – Herbert Spencer

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Change
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. – Herbert Spencer

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Poetry
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[T]he beautiful world of blossom and love and friendship had lost none of its power to please her fancy and thrill her heart… life still called to her with many insistent voices. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables [the comfort of knowing the world goes on

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. – Robert Frost

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Happiness

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet. – Glen Hansard

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Happiness

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. – Arnold Bennett

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As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. – William Glasser

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Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens. – Jesse Ventura

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. – Abbott Joseph Liebling, “Do You Belong in Journalism?” The New Yorker, May 1960

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Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. – Henry Miller

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