Edith Hall Quotes
Aristotle was convinced that most people get most of their pleasure from learning things and wondering about and at the world.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.
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Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.
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I just stand there like a doofus wondering just what in the effing blazes is going on.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
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I think this is a very strong message coming from the U.S. government.
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Continue to study and learn new skills.
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Aristotle was convinced that most people get most of their pleasure from learning things and wondering about and at the world.
