philosopher Quotes
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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policy.
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Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
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I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
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In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.