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“The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.”

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Fred Allen

Fred Allen was a renowned American comedian, born on May 31, 1894, and died on March 17, 1956. Known for his unique humor style and satirical wit, he was a regular on American radio and television programs from the 1930s to the 1940s. more

“From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.”

Life Has Beens Said Ideas Pain Hate Causes Love Is Pleasure Objects Hatred Remove Endeavor His Love Love Hate Love And Hate

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.”

Life Facts Pain Hate Causes Pleasure Emotion Efficient Love Or Hate

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.”

Ifs Thinking Life Soul Desire Hate Self Love Regard Contrary Etc One Love Shrinks Steadfast Vacillation Steadfast Love

Book:The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics

Source: The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics

“If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.”

Life Should Return Endeavor

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.”

Life Emotion Greater Objects Affected Complacency

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.”

Ifs Life Objects Hatred Envy Affected His Love Rivals Bonds Of Friendship

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.”

Ifs Men Life Hate Causes Love Is Objects Equal Hatred Regard Destroyed Former Proportion Love Life His Love Being Equal Former Love

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.”

Life Hands Law Hate Greater Benefits Injury Endeavor

Book:The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics

Source: The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics

“If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.”

Ifs Life Believe Given Causes Return

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

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