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“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'”

Ifs Children Littles Important Helping Might Mother Girl Asks Pleasure Clear Teacher Messages Busy Bother Puzzles Frustrating Request Important Work

Author:Daniel Goleman

“The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.”

“It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.”

Writing Book Ideas Purpose Social Pleasure Interesting Moral Messages Solutions Difficulty Sake Things To Do Elegant Exploits Interesting Things Riddle Composing Elegant Solutions

Book:Strong opinions

Source: Strong opinions

“Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure.”

Humans Passion Interest Pleasure Messages Letters Connections Profit Separation Motive Transient Mandates Dissolution Human Connection Caprice

Book:EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

Source: EDWARD GIBBON Premium Collection: Historiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters: Including

“Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.”

Children Book Pleasure Brain Messages Print Associates Conditioning

Book:The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition

Source: The Read-Aloud Handbook: Sixth Edition

“I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.”

Philosophy Guy Actors Hours Loses Simple Pleasure Seeing Couple Messages Profound Spending Movie Live By Bad Guys Wayne Simple Pleasures

Book:One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

Source: One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

“Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?”

Thinking Needs Sometimes Joy Speak Heaven Pleasure Grief Too Much Comfort Messages Music Is Hunger Satisfaction Refuse Transient Ungrateful Taste In Music Music Speaks

Author:Orson Scott Card

“Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)”

Ifs Wells May Pain Pleasure Messages Fairs Painful Dinner Thanks Stomach Knives Exit Benedick Double Meaning No More Pain

Book:Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service. Shut up. Thank you. Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy. Hope your diodes rot. Thank you. Have a nice day. Stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. It is my pleasure to open for you... Zark off. ...and my satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. I said zark off. Thank you for listening to this message.”

Wells Said Done Jobs Simple Pleasure Nice Doors Listening Messages Satisfaction Shut Up Very Happy Well Done Nice Day Job Well Done Have A Nice Day

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.”

People Mind Pleasure Conditions Type Discipline Messages And Love Size Medical Fats Broads Despise Proven Medical Conditions

Author:Julie Burchill

“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth.”