“I think that happiness resides somewhere between the extremes of personal, religious, and political. I think happiness resides where we understand someone else's point of view and needs. Happiness resides where we are not lost in the solitary dream.”

—  Roger Waters

November 2005[citation needed]
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English songwriter, bassist, and lyricist of Pink Floyd 1943

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