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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.


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RALPH NADER This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing givi...
JUDITH RODIN Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most i...
BRAD HOLLAND In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
GUY RITCHIE What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth...
E.B. WHITE I really can?t think of nothing I?d trade all those years together for. It?s been a wonderful life.
CLARENCE SMITH There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributi...
FABIOLA GIANOTTI Why not say that the meaning and purpose of the sexual powers is pleasure? Certainly sex is pleasura...
J. BUDZISZEWSKI Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his p...
AARON SWARTZ It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockef...
LOUISE NEVELSON When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless tha...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless tha...
DANIEL WEBSTER John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it i...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek...
PATRICK STEWART Why we think we have not seen any miracle when the existence of our own life is nothing less than a ...
NEHA KOTHARI It cost nothing to think bigger than you are, BUT cost a fortune to think less of yourself.
OLAWALE DANIEL I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral...
ELLA R. BLOOR I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
TAYLOR KINNEY I love creating hideaways. My idea is to go to the most beautiful, unspoilt places, buy the land, an...
RICHARD BRANSON While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort...
JOANNA SCOTT Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognit...
JUDITH RODIN Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, no...
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE I think we're going to be great. I don't think we can accept anything less than being great. If we a...
BRANDON MERIWEATHER I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to ...
LIONEL SUGGS It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You canno...
L. RON HUBBARD The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an anglewor...
JOSH BILLINGS I'm less devoted to PCs than into the disdain of Apple. Apple users are so arrogant and evangelical ...
JANET WRIGHT Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
JEFF GOLDBLUM Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
GEORGE ELIOT I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
ANDREW CUOMO Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think abou...
CHARLES LAMB There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just ...
NAGARJUNA The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole...
THOMAS MERTON Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose so...
DANIEL M. GILBERT We want nothing less than to be the best in the Commonwealth and I believe that can happen.
DIRK LANGE He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
TACITUS The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
A. EDWARD NEWTON A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but o...
BARUCH SPINOZA A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
WALTER BAGEHOT Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
NANCY MITFORD Of course not, no. Less chance than John Kerry and George W. Bush dropping out.
RALPH NADER I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make you...
DONALD TRUMP Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spo...
MARQUIS DE SADE Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the charac...
TOM HANKS I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a b...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Most of us can do more than we think but usually do less than we think we have.
VIKRANT PARSAI Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
CONOR OBERST Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
SIMONE WEIL You are nothing less than a miracle!
BRYANT MCGILL Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or lib...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure...
ALEXANDER SMITH In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure...
ALEXANDER SMITH If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider i...
J. A. KONRATH The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for huma...
VANNA BONTA Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES I never saw anything other than a devoted couple.
CYNTHIA KIEBALA Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.
HERMAN E. DALY Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things od...
BILL BRYSON I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
PATRICK MACNEE What is life? Life is a theory itself. Nothing more, nothing less. Life is simply just an illusion.
NAGOTSY ONAVUH To assume is to know less than nothing.
MONK FROST Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversi...
ELLEN G. WHITE Nothing less than 7 inches.
CASSANDRA CLARE I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it's a bett...
CHARLIE MUNGER John Carter was also one of our first recognizable superhumans and there is little doubt that his ex...
JUNOT DIAZ The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.
PAUL ZINDEL None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musi...
MARY LAMBERT For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the aboliti...
HENRY GEORGE I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why ...
GUNTHER SCHULLER Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little ...
BENOîT DUTEURTRE I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.
ISLA FISHER I?d be less than honest if I told you there was a great deal of sympathy for the net neutrality idea...
ART BRODSKY There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
DANIEL C. DENNETT There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
DANIEL DENNETT A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.
SANTOSH KALWAR Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three ye...
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more ...
MARQUIS DE SADE A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ...
CARTER BURWELL I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word... Nothing more, nothing ...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
VICTORIA WOODHULL The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a seri...
BERNARD SUMNER As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lin...
LEMONY SNICKET Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find th...
HELMUT JAHN I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
JACK NICKLAUS I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nucl...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would kn...
JOHN THORN If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Inst...
DONALD TRUMP Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than ...
TACITUS Robert was nothing less than mocked.
GEOFFREY FIEGER Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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JOHN D. MACDONALD The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings ar...
JOHN D. ZIZIOULAS The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings ar...
JOHN D. ZIZOULAS A person's lack of experience does not determine a person's intelligence or knowledge
JOHN D. VU Infinity is a player of great significance who appears on the stage only when the crucial questions ...
JOHN D. BARROW The Right thinks that the breakdown of the family is the source of crime and poverty, and this they ...
JOHN D. CAPUTO God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels...
JOHN D. RICHARDSON People look to science to give them complete certainty, complete assurance, in the same way they loo...
JOHN D. BARROW If the Universe possesses intrinsically random elements in their make up, inherited from its quantum...
JOHN D. BARROW The fact that simultaneous discovery occurs in mathematics, as well as the sciences, points toward s...
JOHN D. BARROW The ease with which collaboration occurs in mathematical research and the essential similarity of th...
JOHN D. BARROW Plato argued that the material world of visible things was but a shadow of the true reality of etern...
JOHN D. BARROW Aristotle's later view of the relationship between mathematics and Nature could not have been more d...
JOHN D. BARROW In the Middle Ages, this conflict between the Platonic and Aristotelian views of the relationship be...
JOHN D. BARROW Grosseteste influenced Roger Bacon's ideas about mathematics and Nature. Bacon wrote hundreds of pag...
JOHN D. BARROW But, as powerful mathematicians like Minkowski and Hilbert found striking harmony between their pure...
JOHN D. BARROW Moreover, there is no known reason why the geometry of space and time should be described by the par...
JOHN D. BARROW Impressed by the success of high-level mathematics in the formulation of the general theory of relat...
JOHN D. BARROW Besides the traditional questions of where or what the Platonic world of perfect mathematical bluepr...
JOHN D. BARROW Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believ...
JOHN D. BARROW Particle physicists are the most deeply Platonic because their entire subject is built upon a belief...
JOHN D. BARROW Aristotle draws a sharp dividing-line between the activities of the physicist and those of the mathe...
JOHN D. BARROW ...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are...
JOHN D. MACDONALD Such gratitude! It hurt me to see you lose your professional standing, McGee. Like you were going so...
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