"There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier."

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Source : "Happiness: Lessons from a New Science". Book by Richard Layard, April 7, 2011.

Richard Layard, Baron Layard

#Heart Quotes #People Quotes #Income Quotes

“Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.”
“[Allied] got the attention of (director) Bob Zemeckis and Marion Cotillard. I'm glad I waited. If it had been made 15 years before, who knows how it would have looked, but it's got the best possible cast, director and everything. It's been fantastic. It was worth waiting.”
“To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.”
“Because as an only child, you have your own little world.”
“Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in.”
“What?! I'm not small! It's the world that's too big!!”
“So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.”

Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.”

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