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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace,… — Matthieu Ricard
The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do. — Hal Holbrook
A good life is a main argument. — Ben Jonson
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we… — E. M. Forster
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he… — Leonardo da Vinci
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. — Bertolt Brecht
Curiosity is the main energy. — Robert Rauschenberg
The main function of color should be to serve expression. — Henri Matisse
There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music,… — John Deacon
The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task.… — Theodore Levitt
Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives. — Louise Hay
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. — Seneca the Younger
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann
If you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire… — Stephen Covey
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them. — Tim Robbins
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty. — Ludwig von Mises
It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help… — Mary Caroline Richards
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you… — Erich Fromm
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all… — George Bernard Shaw
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little… — Walter Bagehot
Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova,… — Michio Kaku
Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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