Small business happiness is found by those owners who feel successful regardless of which patch is in front of them.

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And it is a discipline not to permit himself the fantasy that he will survive to claim his small patch of ordinary happiness (perhaps too that the husband will not), when fantasising about surviving to next week seems an indulgence.

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More important, however, Joel Moskowitz of Ceradyne seems to have demonstrated that, if they play it right, small growth companies can find true happiness in the arms of corporate giants.

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have been essential to millions of American small businesses.

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Through many small miracles of acting, writing and direction, we see the friends' happiness start to unravel as Olivia blunders her way to a Cinderella ending something of a foregone conclusion for someone as delightful as Ms Aniston, the only member of the cast whose personal bodyguard is listed in the credits.

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His face relaxed and opened up, and Vivian saw how great the barriers were between a person and his happiness, and how little it took to make him think they were small.

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