Quotes with pleasure-ground

Quotes 461 till 474 of 474.

  • Bill Budge You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Brigham Young You will probably have what is called a Christian Church here; they will not admit that we are Christians, but they cannot think us further from the plan of salvation as revealed from heaven than we know them to be, so we are even on that ground, as far as it goes.
    Christians Journal of Discourses 14:196 (June 3, 1871)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Michael Korda Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Basil of Caesarea A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Elias Canetti Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Caitlin Doughty In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Mark Twain Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arnold Bennett It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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