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Quote by Max Eastman
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. – Max Eastman

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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

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Emotions
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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. – Max Eastman

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Laughter
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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman

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Hope
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. – Cicero

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Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. – William Henley

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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality. – Nathaniel Branden

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. – Benjamin Franklin

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Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldnt come from me. It should come from the medical establishment. – Jenny McCarthy

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The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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