Quote by Daniel Dennett
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. – Daniel Dennett

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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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Courage
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesnt need its brain anymore so it eats it! – Daniel Dennett

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Home
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Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently – the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs good tricks. – Daniel Dennett

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design
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The right to happiness is fundamental. – Anna Pavlova

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Happiness

Ive never seen an obese person who has said, I am well in my mind. Happiness stops food being a compensation. – Pierre Dukan

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Happiness

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. – Dennis Prager

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Happiness

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, youll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. – William Bennett

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Happiness

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History balances the frustration of “how far we have to go” with the satisfaction of “how far we have come.” It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

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History

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated. – Walter Annenberg

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The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie. – Steven Soderbergh

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I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend. – Pink

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