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Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information war poster (1941–1945). "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1]
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom is a 2006 book written by American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt.In it, Haidt poses several "Great Ideas" on happiness espoused by thinkers of the past—such as Plato, Buddha and Jesus—and examines them in the light of contemporary psychological research, extracting from them any lessons that still apply to our modern lives.
The Massachusetts Constitution, chiefly authored by John Adams in 1780, contains in its Declaration of Rights the wording: "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and ...
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now consists of 24 "journalistic homilies" [3] or "meditations", [13] many of which are autobiographical, that range in number from 63 to a few hundred words. Siona Carpenter of Religion News Service considered Journey as a part of the increase in popularity of motivational and inspirational books written by ...
It comes right down to this—the lack of absolute love for language, the lack of sitting down and working a good idea into a gem of an idea." [ 10 ] [ 29 ] He states that, "a publisher that cared about Harper Lee's legacy would have taken those words to heart, and declined to publish Go Set a Watchman —the good idea that Lee eventually ...
In his book Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan in the 1960s, critic Mike Marqusee writes that the closing verse "hints at a dark betrayal that is both portentous and frighteningly devoid of meaning": [4] Well they sent for the ambulance And one was sent Somebody got lucky But it was an accident Now I'm pledging my time to you Hopin' you'll come ...
Some say that Alabama holds the title on a technicality—the city was officially founded over a decade before the Big Easy. Regardless of which city held the event, it’s known that the ...
"The Promised Land" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen from his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom, backed by another song from Darkness on the Edge of Town, "Streets of Fire", the third single from the album after "Badlands" and "Prove It All Night".