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"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
"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."
"My life is wondrous, and I appreciate it every day!"
"You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have."
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"Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless."
"My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help."
"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."
"People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death."
"Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified."
"The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly."
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