"Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

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Jeremy Bentham

#Happiness Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.”
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.”
“The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.”
“Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.”

Source : "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 56, 1948.
“Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”

Source : Myra MacPherson (2009). “Long Time Passing, New Edition: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation”, p.612, Indiana University Press
“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”
“For me, the essence of a medicine man's life is to be humble, to have great patience, to be close to the Earth, to live as simply as possible, and to never stop learning.”
“Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.”

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