"Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now."

-- Stephen Covey

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“Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy that's gonna make you the better girl”
“Break into Alton Towers! I wouldâ€¦ break into McDonalds. And I would kiss everyone. On the lipsâ€¦ before I left the world. I mean, man and female.”
“He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.”
“Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.”
“I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity.”

Source : "Portret van een socioloog". VPRO, April 23, 1975.
“My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.”

Source : Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”
“The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more breadth and force than in RENEWAL. I hope this movie is screened in church basements and synagogue social halls across the country, and that it moves many more people of faith off the fence and into action.”
“God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.”

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