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Letter "P" » pleasure
«Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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job, jobbing, on the job, perfection, pleasure, puts, put to work, The Job
«Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.»
«Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.»
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
forgetfulness, oblivion, pain, pain and pleasure, pleasure, remembrance, remembrances, sort, sorted, sorting, sort of, sort out
«Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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buying, buying and selling, pleasure, selling, sell out, thinks, to it
«My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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around, a lot, causes, definition, in a way, lot, pain, pain and pleasure, pleasure, The People, ton
«Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Art
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art, contact, degree, derive, deriving, do work, experience, feelings, from, furnish, furnished with, furnishing, greatest, happy, Having, intensities, intensity, in degree, other, out of work, personally, pleasure, pleasuring, realms, such, such as, The Greatest, to that degree, works, work over, work through, work up
«Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without»
«Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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approval, environment, Environments, harmony, in harmony, pleasure, sign, test, with approval
«Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.»
«Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Melancholy
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pleasure, sad, The Pleasure
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