"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."
-Herbert Read
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"To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism."
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"The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason."
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"I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority."
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"The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists."
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"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-Ernest Hemingway
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
-Albert Camus
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
-Dalai Lama
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell
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