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“Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.”

Pain Life Is Pleasure Drink Percent Hundred Straightforward

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”

Years Spirit Three Pleasure Race Four Blood Land Tears Hundred Riches Welcome Islands Paradise Splits Haiti

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“If usually the "present age" is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as thehistory of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”

Ifs Years May Long Stills Age Pleasure Study Century Civilization Thousand Long Time Hundred Unity Thousand Years Geology Extending

Book:The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

Source: The Philosophy of Josiah Royce

“A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.”

Pleasure Hundred Pressure Valuable Fake Fake Friends

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.”

People Years Different Moving Humanity Culture Social Process Pleasure Impossible Economic Hundred Years Ago Lifetime Edges Backgrounds Time Travel Globalization Different Place Marrying

Author:Thomas Keating

“As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses and ancient subjects he chose represented virtues which were meant to inspire people. Then he went through a dark phase when he was listening to the sermons of Savonarola, who preached against the worldly pleasures of the Renaissance. But Botticelli's works live on, inspiring people to this day. Five hundred years after his death, he still has thousands of fans!”

“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.”

Years Humans Wells Has Beens Today Humanity Culture Pleasure Poverty Failing Cost Standards Percent Hundred Years Ago Well Being Our Time Severe Could Have Been Standards Of Living Affluent

Author:Thomas Pogge

“I think the most joyous thing in life is to loaf around and watch another bloke do a job of work. Look how popular are the men who dig up London with electric drills. Duke's son, cook's son, son of a hundred kings, people will stand there for hours on end, ear drums splitting. Why? Simply for the pleasure of being idle while watching other people work.”

People Thinking Men Looks Ends Jobs Life Is Hours Pleasure Watches Son Kings Hundred Ears London Cooks Electric Things In Life Idle Joyous Dukes Drills Splitting Blokes

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name”

Reason Pain Remember Names Pleasure Five Ten Skills Percent Hundred Twenties Luck Fifty Fifteen Will Power

Author:Mike Shinoda