• The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

  Arthur C. Brooks
  American social scientist and musician
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. social-survey
2. directly
3. related
4. clearly
5. success
6. created

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The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others. by : Arthur C. Brooks

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