"We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning."

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Source : Jacob Needleman (1996). “A Little Book on Love”, Doubleday

Jacob Needleman

#Pleasure Quotes #Born Quotes

“Congress should ban advertising that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.”

Source : Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.”
“The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.”
“We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.”
“The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle”

Source : Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.
“I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.”

Source : "On the nature of visions". Lecture in Vienna, 1912.
“Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is all happening.”

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