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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society tha

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West

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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. – Rebecca West

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Trust
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West

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Pleasure
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Hark ye of little pleasure! See your way clearly as your destiny reveals its truth! Seek not completion lest your touch be forever dismissed! – My wordfriend, the always conversationally frisky Tim Irwin, 2014

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Pleasure

Pleasure is the bait of sin. – Plato

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Pleasure

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. – Joseph Addison

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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. – Germaine Greer

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter. – Proverb

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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. – Deepak Chopra

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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. – Paul Tsongas

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Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more. – Helena Rubinstein

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diet