Quotes 161 till 180 of 474.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
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In the face of a world where economic hardships often ground the best of the human spirit into the worst, love provided a pathway into hidden chambers of the spirit where nobility and compassion might be salvaged, resurrected, and made stronger.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003) -
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
Original:Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.
Pensees (1669) -
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
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