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  • T. S. Eliot Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bob Dylan Half of the people can be part right all of the time,
    Some of the people can be all right part of the time,
    But all the people can't be all right all the time.
    I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
    I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
    I said that.
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Half wits talk much, but say little.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Plympton Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Bono Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Mark Twain Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Henry van Dyke Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • William John Bennett 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, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
    William John Bennett
    American politician, and political theorist (1943 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Rabbi H. Schachtel Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
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  • Norman Macewan Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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  • Marquis de Sade Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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