"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Philosophical Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Disgusting Quotes

“I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.”
“A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.”

Source : Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.9, Crown Business
“There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.”
“A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.”
“The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.”
“I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.”
“My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix...”
“I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.”

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