"I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure."
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"I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working."
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"My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it."
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"The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit."
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"The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct."
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"This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death."
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"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."
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"I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure."
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"I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing."
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"...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure."
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"There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure."
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"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."
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"I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true."
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"I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone."
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"Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life."
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"I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure."
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"It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure."
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"If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs."
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"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."
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"Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides."
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