"The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India."

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Source : "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

Derek Bok

#Country Quotes #Goal Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]”
“He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Aug 06, 2014
“Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.”
“The Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) has done things that are far more heinous than anything Grant Ward has ever done as far as we know, and yet, at the end of the movie, you're rooting for him to come back on the side of the angels,”
“I'd like to think that we've certainly strengthened the position of some of our government businesses.”
“Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.”
“I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.”

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