“THE PURSUIT of Happyness” is all about the pursuit with little or none of the happiness. Even if you buy the premise that getting a job at a big-time stock brokerage firm is, within ...

When Thomas Jefferson included “the pursuit of Happiness” as an unalienable right in the Declaration of Independence, he wasn't talking about fleeting joy. Here's the true meaning behind the ...

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The Declaration of Independence’s most famous line, penned by Thomas Jefferson, that Americans had an unalienable right to “the pursuit of happiness,” helps distinguish America from other ...