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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

~Adam Davidson

Topics: Across Around Bit Carefully Certainly Confronted Define Economists Even Fair Globe Happiness How Issues Measure Number Psychologists Series Sounds Sticky Sure Surveys Through

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Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

~Al Sharpton

Topics: Another Confronted Dr Era General He King Place Principles Things Took Universal

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What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Activity Back Beings Confront Confronted Dealing Does Down Economic Economic Activity Elements Goes Human Human Beings Just Means Money One Thing People Pull Really Sound Stabilize Straight System The One Thing Thing Uncertainty Which Withdraw

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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

~Aleister Crowley

Topics: Confronted Greek Illiterate Like Looking Man Manuscript Mountain Ordinary Ordinary Man Person

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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: About Before Bodies Came Castle Confronted Fairy Fairy Tale Finding Going Her How Know Often Original People Really Room She Sister Tale Think Thinking Truth Wives Youngest

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There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

~Alice Miller

Topics: Being Confronted Past People Therapy Who Without

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One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

~Alphonso Jackson

Topics: Build Buy Clear Closing Confronted Costs Decide Get Home One Of The Problems Picture Problems Will

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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Absence Child Confronted Created Father Fatherless Godless His Human Left Man Recognized Then Who

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Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.

~Annette Curtis Klause

Topics: Child Children Confronted Coping Dark Dark Side Disaster Dreadful Everything Explore Finally Growing He Healthy Mechanisms Need Part Place Protected Side Teens Will

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When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Atrocities Confronted Experience Facts Fiction Foreign Imaginable Makes Often Realm Unimaginable

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