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pain real power
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton
pain age youth
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.
pain shadow substance
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties? Charles Dickens
pain god-love accepting
Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work. Charles Stanley
our-society knows
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. Edwin Land
our-society resistance inquiry
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society? Bill Nye
our-society fantasy life-is
I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy. Billy Crudup
our-society moral compass
The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips. Dan Ariely
our-society facts poor
The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. Barbara Ehrenreich
our-society spheres adults
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society. Andrzej Wajda
our-society prevention reactions
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction... Clay Shirky
our-society collapse precarious
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. Doris Lessing
our-society information depth
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. David Ogden Stiers
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image. Alan Alda
manipulation
Everything about a movie is manipulation. Frederick Wiseman
manipulation manners bad-manners
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now. Jaroslaw Kaczynski
manipulation kind should
Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited. Ian Wilmut
manipulation individual appetite
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. Paulo Freire
manipulation directors emotion
I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion. Jake Gyllenhaal
manipulation prey
The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation. Terence McKenna