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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greates

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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Poverty
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. – Jeremy Bentham

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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J. D. Salinger

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People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, youre going to lose. Youre just going to. Even if you get the money, youre not going to be happy. – Gary Vaynerchuk

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Happiness

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others happiness, not by each others misery. – Charlie Chaplin

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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family. – Gail Porter

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Whats different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. Thats what makes it both powerful and exciting. – Jeremy Rifkin

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