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Quote by George Orwell
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of l

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. – George Orwell

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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Virtue
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George Orwell
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. – George Orwell

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War
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Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy. – Jermaine Jackson

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Happiness

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. – Robert Baden-Powell

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Happiness

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? – Bo Bennett

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Happiness

When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights — and flowers will bloom on a barren land. – Terri Guillemets

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To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be – William Golding

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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. – Herbert Marcuse

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Perhaps I am stronger than I think. – Thomas Merton

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