"Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want."

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The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.

— Simon Critchley