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"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."
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"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."

"Remember the botched brothel-visit in L'Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."

"Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy."

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."

"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life."


"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."


"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."


"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."


"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."


"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."
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