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People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. they've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.

-Rush Limbaugh

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People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. they've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.

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So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. i'm not happy. i don't know what's wrong. if i just had another job, i could be happy. if i just get married, i would be happy. well if i just wasn't married, i would be happy. well, if i just had some kids, i'll be happy. i'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. if i had a bigger house, i would be happy. well, i got a big house. now if i just had a maid to clean, i'd be happy. well, now if i just had a maid i could get along with better, i'd be happy.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. we love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

I got tired of doing battle with people thinking i was a little weird because i wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. the only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. people who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. is there a most people? i don't know. television makes it seem like there is, but i think that might just be television.

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. i think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. we use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

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