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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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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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Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. – Lionel Tiger

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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. – Roland Barthes

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. – Warren Buffett

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He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. – Bible

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