"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."

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Source : Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

Arthur C. Brooks

#Data Quotes #Income Quotes #Belief Quotes

“As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.”
“But monument themselves memorials need.”

Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38
“Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls”
“Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.”
“When managers have got decisions to make, whether it benefits me or not, I have to be man enough to take it.”

Source : "City Manchester City's Joe Hart to miss out on cup final against Sunderland" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2014.
“I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:”
“I'm the master marketer.”
“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”

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