Quote by John Grierson
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. – John Grierson

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The very effect of the education they were given… was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received. – John Grierson

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Education
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Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society. – John Grierson

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Leadership
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My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good… I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx – though this undoubtedly will be suggested – but from Fichte and Hegel. – John Grierson

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Attitude
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Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

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Im interested in the dark side of man. Im interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness. – Elizabeth George

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Happiness

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Happiness

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to peoples happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in peoples lives has been severed. – Park Geun-hye

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Happiness

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Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it. – Alan Watts

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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. – Alcibiades

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