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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.
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.
The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.
You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn't want.
Any other business, you want your competitors to go out of business. In sports, you just don't want them to have as good a record as you do.
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.
Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.
I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.
I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.
Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.
When you see yourself as a powerful creator of your conditions, you'll see opportunities to get to your goals - and dreams - all around you.
I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.
Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.
[Hillary Clinton chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.]It speaks of the sexism and the misogyny in this election [2016].
If you are not diverse and you are not listening to all voices and have your ear to the ground, you're not going to make the best decisions.
I ran track. I ran cross country. But I did not play organized basketball in high school, at least on our team. But I played a lot of sports.
In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.
The 'terrorist' behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan.
I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.
I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.
We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.
If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.
If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.
Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'
I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.