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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. – Joseph Butler

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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. – Joseph Butler

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Food
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. – Joseph Butler

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Happiness
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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth. – Clayton Christensen

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I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. – Alain Delon

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Happiness

No matter how carefully you plan your life, in the end your happiness comes down to someone who one day just walked into it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month — get married. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. – Ellen Goodman, “The Human Factor,” The Washington Post, January 1987

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Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but its rarely driving the car. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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The monarchy is foremost a business, and its important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless royal family. I find it very sad. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

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Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. – Pete Seeger

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