The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. | |
— Walter Bagehot | |
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2020 | Know Love |
2019 | Spoiler Alert |
2018 | Tic-Toc |
2017 | Explaining Working Class Support For Donald |
2016 | Not In My Experience |
2015 | Effort |
2014 | Honest Wants |
2013 | Faith, n. |
2012 | Surprise Me |
2011 | Confused With Truth |
Posts Tagged ‘Pleasure’
So Why Not Try?
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Philosophy, Pleasure, Quotes, Success, Walter Bagehot on June 11, 2022| 2 Comments »
Might I Have A Little More, Please
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Drinking, Eating, François-Marie Arouet, God, Necessity, Philosophy, Pleasure, Quotes, Voltaire on April 21, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. | |
— Voltaire | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | 40Hrs |
Might I Have A Little More, Please | |
2021 | All I See Are Nails |
More Money | |
2020 | We Will Get Through This |
2019 | I Asked My Family Doctor Just What I Had |
2018 | You Have Just Begun To Climb |
2017 | Equal Protection Under Law |
2016 | A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion |
2015 | Or You Don’t |
2014 | If You Ever Fall… |
2013 | Glory Days (part 2) |
2012 | They Follow A Pattern – If You Know What I Mean |
What I Live For (Precis) | |
2011 | Giving |
An Afternoon Nap
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Afternoon Naps, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Dinner, Philosophy, Pleasure, Quotes, Time on July 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. | |
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand | |
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2020 | Magical Voices In My Head |
I Still Need Educating | |
2019 | And I’m Not Letting Go |
2018 | The Continuing Failure Of Speaker Paul Ryan |
Day 3: Approaching The Half Way Point | |
2017 | Orange Comb-Overs Unite! |
2016 | Speaking Of Which |
2015 | Complexity Has A Strict Architecture |
2014 | Just Support |
2013 | Wandering Free |
2012 | Contribute = Paying Taxes |
2011 | How Will You Be Judged? |
Two Guides
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Excellence, Philosophy, Pleasure, Principles, Quotes, Socrates on March 2, 2019| Leave a Comment »
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. | |
― Socrates | |
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2022 | A Wonderful Tension |
2021 | Little And Large Choices |
I Got Something To Say | |
Alternate Reality | |
2020 | When? |
2019 | Two Guides |
2018 | A Call For You |
2017 | Because I Read |
2016 | On What Matters… |
2015 | Social Security |
2014 | Bewitching |
2013 | Visiting Joy |
2012 | Dedication To Today |
2011 | Project Second Chance – Adult Literacy |
Turning Coal Into Diamonds | |
But You Have To Learn It Feels Good
Posted in Health, Quotes, tagged Dr. Richard Friedman, Gina Kolata, Health, Hygeia, Pleasure, Quotes, Truth, Ultimate Fitness on February 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »
“Ah, the truth about exercise?” He replies, “Well, I suspect that exercise is more often a marker of health than its cause — healthy people like to exercise more than unhealthy people to start with. And the real value of it is not in terms of abstract health benefits like longevity — and extra few hours or maybe months — but because it feels good when you do it or when it’s over. To hell with Hygeia; the truth lies in pleasure.” | |
— Dr. Richard Friedman | |
As quoted by Gina Kolata in her book: “Ultimate Fitness: The Quest For Truth About Exercise And Health“ | |
[For my review of this very interesting book, click: Into The Dark… And for those of you wondering, Hygeia is the Greek goddess of health. — kmab] | |
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2020 | Art Work |
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2019 | Hopefully, Closer To Noon |
Can You See The Bottom? | |
2018 | Stock Market Sets Another Record Under #DumbDonald |
#LyingDonald: About That Special Prosecutor Testimony | |
2017 | We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet |
2016 | But You Have To Learn It Feels Good |
2015 | Never Stop |
2014 | Caution |
2013 | Treat Her Like A Lady |
2012 | Build New Worlds |
2011 | I Grok Elegance |
Standing Relish | |
Pick Your Poison
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, My Journal, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Commerce, Knowledge, Mahatma Gandhi, My Journal, Philosophy, Pleasure, Politics, Quotes, Science, Sins, Wealth, Worship on July 28, 2012| Leave a Comment »
There are seven sins in the world: | |
Wealth without work; | |
Pleasure without conscience; | |
Knowledge without humility; | |
Commerce without morality; | |
Science without humanity; | |
Worship without sacrifice; and, | |
Politics without principle. | |
— Mahatma Gandhi | |
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Hopeful Flights
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Dr Samuel Johnson, Flight, Hope, Human Mind, My Journal, Pleasure, Quotes on March 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. | |
— Samuel Johnson | |
From: “The Rambler“ | |
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2022 | Be Someone For Somebody |
2021 | Genius (And Other Details) |
I Don’t Know Why | |
Going Into The Deep End | |
2020 | Repercussions For Health |
2019 | Chained To #45 |
2018 | Some Men Make Their Office As Small As Themselves |
2017 | Too Many |
2016 | Not Yet, Anyway |
2015 | On Pornography |
2014 | Nudge, Nudge |
2013 | The Journey Will Be Joy |
2012 | Hopeful Flights |
2011 | Irrationally Predictable |
Lawful Restraint | |