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"The pursuit of happiness" is an American myth. The ideologies and governments of this century that promised happiness, have left people with more material possessions, but less psychological well-being. Many of the citizens are emotionally bankrupt and unhappy. The demands of life in our current socioeconomic system require that we keep running and running with little or no breaks....Like their parents, most of the young professionals will drift through life racing for the "American Dream", going through very expensive trial-and-error lessons and struggling to achieve happiness and fulfillment. – Med Jones
'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. – Albert Camus
...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
90 percent of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework. – William J. O'Neil
A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. – Mark Twain
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. – Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. – Douglas Noel Adams
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. – Bryant McGill
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition. – Boutros Boutros-Ghali
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. – Dixie Lee Ray
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind. – Albert Einstein
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. – Michael Winner
Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing – Casino
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. – Thomas J. Watson
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. – Douglas Couplan
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. – George Washington Carver
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people. – Thomas Davidson
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. – Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. – Bokonon
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. – Aristotle
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. – Geoffrey F. Albert
Celebrate your people’s success, not your own. – J. Willard Marriott
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. – Robert Oxton Bolt
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. – Bryant McGill

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