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"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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"You can love again."
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"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."
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"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."
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"My life is wondrous, and I appreciate it every day!"
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"We savour on great memories of happy times."
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"You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have."
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"A joyful heart is an endless flowing stream."
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"A year of contentment is worth more than ten of prosperity."
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"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Happiness

"The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky."
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"I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed."
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"Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death."
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"I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good."
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"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."
Movies

"Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it."
Death

"History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting."
History

"I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old."
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"I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further."
History
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