The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Today we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I think in a way I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit not to transform it or destroy it.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is is that when we succeed we succeed because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together.
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
From a religious point of view if God had thought homosexuality is a sin he would not have created gay people.
God created man in His own image says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
God expects but one thing of you and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
If God created us in his own image we have more than reciprocated.
God created man but I could do better.
If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.
I am a teacher and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.