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We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. ↗

— Thucydides

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If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. ↗

— Evita Peron

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My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance. ↗

— Katy Perry

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