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There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

Ray Lyman Wilbur
Inspirational, Happiness, Thinking
"Human Hopes: Addresses & Papers on Education, Citizenship, & Social Porblems".

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Ray Lyman Wilbur
Christian, Children, Compassion
United States. Department of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, William Atherton DuPuy (1932). “Conservation in the Department of the Interior”, p.166

It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before-human experience-is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.

Ray Lyman Wilbur
Life, Mistake, Sorrow
Ray Lyman Wilbur (1940). “Human Hopes: Addresses & Papers on Education, Citizenship, & Social Porblems”

We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.

Ray Lyman Wilbur
Silly, Ideas, People
"Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, A Gentleman and a Scholar". Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1949.

It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated--and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors.

Ray Lyman Wilbur
Animal, Knives, Bird
"Ray Lyman Wilbur". The Washington Post, June 28, 1949.

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