| 1. | " The same man who coupled
liberty and the pursuit of happiness so closely in the Declaration of
Independence could later state without equivocation that "Happiness
is the aim of life, but virtue is the foundation of happiness."
Jefferson's collaborator..."
| Source: | McMahon, Darrin M. "From the happiness of virtue to the virtue of happiness: 400 B.C.-A.D. 1780" Daedalus 133.2 Mar. 22 2004: 5-18
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| 2. | "
RELATED ARTICLE: "The Pursuit of Happiness
My turn toward positive psychology occurred a decade ago when, as a
psychology textbook author, I came across surprising and vastly
underreported data on human happiness."
| Source: | Wellner, Alison Stein,Adox, David. "Happy Days" Psychology Today 33.3 May 1 2000: 32
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| 3. | "
He packaged that complex answer in a 1993 book, "The Pursuit
of Happiness."
Money can buy happiness, he said, but only under circumstances
such as poverty or need."
| Source: | Witham, Larry. "Author sees misery in land of plenty" Washington Times May 2 2000: 2
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| 4. | " He
knew that the Bill of Rights guaranteed the pursuit of happiness, not
happiness."
| Source: | Fields, Suzanne. "Seeking the politician's Oscar" Washington Times Mar. 30 2000: 21
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| 5. | " The women claimed that they derived greater happiness from
harmonious interpersonal relationships, especially those involving
family members, whereas the men claimed to derive greater happiness from
material pursuits and career success."
| Source: | LU, LUO. "Gender and Conjugal Differences in Happiness" Journal of Social Psychology 140.1 Feb. 1 2000: 132
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| 6. | " The
magnificent phrase in your Constitution `the pursuit of happiness'
has been interpreted as if happiness could indeed be
pursued.'" Mom was a tough customer."
| Source: | Herman, Carol. "A child's New Yorker" Washington Times Mar. 12 2000: 6
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| 7. | "
Part of the African American pursuit of happiness has to be a
pursuit for technological literacy."
| Source: | Malveaux, Julianne. "Life, Liberty and TECHNOLOGY" Black Issues in Higher Education 16.24 Jan. 20 2000: 33
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| 8. | " The founders of this Republic appreciated that freedom was about
both the private pursuit of happiness and the public pursuit of a good
society."
| Source: | KUTTNER, ROBERT. "O, Freedom" American Prospect 11.19 Aug. 28 2000: 4
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| 9. | "... on the happiness of all, that anybody's happiness
can be secure only in the company of secure people, and that pursuit of
happiness worthy of that name needs to be aimed at the ways and means of
human togetherness."
| Source: | Bauman, Zygmunt. "To hope is human" Tikkun 19.6 Nov. 1 2004: 64-68
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| 10. | "... "life+ liberty+
and the pursuit of happiness." Through globalization, the United
States extends its political and economic hegemony throughout the world,
exercising new forms of imperialism and colonialism."
| Source: | Phan, Peter C. "Cultures, religions, and power: proclaiming Christ in the United States today" Theological Studies 65.4 Dec. 1 2004: 714-741
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| 11. | "... philosophers, such as John Locke, David Hume, and
Jean-Jacques Rousseau." And, it was added, "the phrase --
'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' -- is taken,
almost verbatim, from a previous work of John Locke."
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| Source: | Hentoff, Nat. "Getting It Right" Editor & Publisher Aug. 7 2000: 42
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| 12. | "... choice and reform, and the progressive credo that we are, in
terms of the realization of liberty, equality, and the pursuit of
happiness, an unfinished nation?"
| Source: | . "CORRESPONDENCE" American Prospect 11.18 Aug. 14 2000: 6
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| 13. | " Douglass summoned blacks and whites to
"enjoy together, in the same country, under the same flag, the
inestimable blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as
neighborly..."
| Source: | SCHAUB, DIANA. "The spirit of a free man" Public Interest June 22 2000: 86
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| 14. | " Can we make this a place where all
citizens have a fair shot at the pursuit of happiness?"
| Source: | Ackerman, Bruce,ALSTOTT, ANNE. "$80,000 AND A DREAM" American Prospect 11.16 July 17 2000: 23
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| 15. | "
Some may decry our ambitions in the pursuit of happiness."
| Source: | Zuckerman, Mortimer B. "A time to celebrate" U.S. News & World Report 129.3 July 17 2000: 120
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| 16. | "
More important, like virtually all liberal, market-oriented
movements, Likud lacked a unifying vision of the `good society'
beyond the individualistic pursuit of happiness."
| Source: | EDELMAN, MARTIN. "The New Israeli Constitution" Middle Eastern Studies 36.2 Apr. 1 2000: 1
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| 17. | " Proponents of peak performance see it as laudably
consistent with the American dream of self-betterment and the pursuit of
happiness. "To me, pursuing excellence is why we came to
America," says Rotella."
| Source: | Tolson, Jay,Kleiner, Carolyn,Marcus, David L. "Into the zone" U.S. News & World Report 129.1 July 3 2000: 38
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| 18. | " Culture,
and the Pursuit of Happiness (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1999).
(33.) National Research Council, Board on Sustainable Development,
Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability (Washington,
D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999)."
| Source: | Kates, Robert W. "Population and Consumption" Environment 42.3 Apr. 1 2000: 10
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| 19. | " Anti-American sentiment and a fascination with a unique
political and economic system that promises the "pursuit of
happiness" have just been two sides of the same coin."
| Source: | . "American Exceptionalism" Wilson Quarterly 24.2 Mar. 22 2000: 4
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| 20. | "
Elian Gonzalez+ who came so close to a life of liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, was worth an inner tube."
| Source: | Pruden, Wesley. "The long goodbye to Elian's boyhood" Washington Times Apr. 28 2000: 4
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| 21. | " Many of them share, as the
editors say, "a moral revulsion against aggressive
selfishness" as well as a concern that "the liberated
individual may be in constant pursuit of happiness but is..."
| Source: | Kautz, Steven. "Community and Tradition: Conservative Perspectives on theAmerican Experience. & Community and Political Thought Today" American Political Science Review 94.1 Mar. 1 2000: 164
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| 22. | " Measures will too often be decided according to
their probable effect, not on the national prosperity and happiness, but on
the prejudices, interests, and pursuits of the governments and the people
of the individual..."
| Source: | EDWARDS, GEORGE C. III. "Building Coalitions" Presidential Studies Quarterly 30.1 Mar. 1 2000: 47
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| 23. | "
Favorite movie: "Can't think of one."
Favorite book: Charles Murray's Pursuit of Happiness.
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| Source: | Hickey, Jennifer G. "Not Politically Correct: Stossel Tells It Like It Is" Insight on the News 16.9 Mar. 6 2000: 36
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| 24. | " The notion that the cultural upheaval of the
1960s has enabled adults to indulge in a selfish pursuit of individual
happiness that often comes at the expense of children is a familiar
refrain of the conservative critique."
| Source: | RHODES, ERIC BRYANT. "FATHERHOOD MATTERS" American Prospect 11.9 Mar. 13 2000: 48
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| 25. | "... its "self-evident"
truths that all men are entitled to life, liberty, and "the pursuit
of happiness," and that these entitlements can be abridged only by
due process of law."
| Source: | Wilson, James Q. "Democracy for All?" Commentary 109.3 Mar. 1 2000: 25
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