"[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond."

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Source : Lionel Tiger (2017). “The Pursuit of Pleasure”, p.33, Routledge

Lionel Tiger

#Inspirational Quotes #Past Quotes #Years Quotes

“When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.”
“I've been showing up late and dirty all my life.”
“she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.”
“Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.”
“When there is pressure for leaders to respond to problems or crises, they often simply intensify their efforts in their particular defined sphere of activity - even if that's not relevant to the real problem. To do otherwise requires taking on entrenched practices and asserting power in areas where it often will not be well received. And leaders tend to see major crises more as threats to their own position rather than as systemic challenges for the societies that they govern or the institutions that they manage.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I just give off this kind of feminine vibe which has... served me so well with women in my life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Shhh.â€ He put a finger to her lips. â€œHear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you. A little girl with your hair and eyes would've been the delight of my life. But it is you that I want primarily, not mythical children. I can survive the loss of something I've never had. I cannot survive losing you. (Winter Makepeace)”

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