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Quote by Irving Babbitt
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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Society
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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. – Irving Babbitt

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Faith
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. – Irving Babbitt

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Happiness
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. – Ferdinand Mount

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Happiness

Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. – John Howe

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Happiness

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object. – Hermann Hesse

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Happiness

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. – Denis Waitley

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Happiness

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you cant be happy as a success, its very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. – Michael Korda

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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. – Ulrich Beck

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If anyone asks for your autograph theyre showing you respect and give it back to them. – Johnny Rotton

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