 | Like so many others in this day and age, they fought against the pressures of modern society to maintain a happy, respectable and responsible family life. Andy … was a model employee, hard working, personable and well liked. |
The quote above is a statement by John Underhill, former managing director at the firm where Andy Case used to work, before he killed his two daughters, his wife and himself.
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Comics.com: Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz (Original publish date Dec 25, 1962)
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✖ Via FlowingData: “Lisa Simpson on Happiness vs. Intelligence”
“As intelligence goes up, happiness goes down. See, I made a graph. I make lots of graphs.” (Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons, episode 257, January 7, 2001).
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