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«As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
all but, crisp, Crisping, human head, juiciness, pleasurable, realized
«A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.»
«It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years»
«If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
| Keywords:
decent, houses, longed-for, longed, pleasurable, production, self respect, societies
«Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.»
«I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
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devoted, devoting, less than nothing, pleasurable, pleasure, think of
«It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another»
«Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.»
«NIRVANA, n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
annihilation, awarded, Buddhist, Buddhists, nirvana, pleasurable
«Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Genius
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inventive, pleasurable, vigorous
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