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People who have chosen to regard themselves as victims cannot allow themselves to enjoy life, because enjoying life would challenge their perception of themselves as victims.

— Dennis Prager Happiness is a Serious Problem:A Human Nature Repair Manual (1998)

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Happiness is a battle to be waged and not a feeling to be awaited.

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If you drop desires, you'll never have a Salk vaccine.

Women are used by feminists; blacks are used by Democrats; workers are used by Communists.

Of all the world's evils, child abuse may rank as the greatest.

America gradually became the least-xenophobic, least-racist nation in the world. In no country do people become accepted as full members of the society as do immigrants to America.

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