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• Effective education may also require co-opting old faculties to deal with new demands. . . Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may not always be easy and pleasant, notwithstanding the mantra that learning is fun.

  Steven Pinker

  Fun, Demand, May

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• A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We shouldn't beg it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Philosophical, Government, Want Something

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.204, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The fear of death has been raised too much and set up on high, especially by preachers, like the brazen serpent in the wilderness over the heads of the Israelites; but not with so good excuse as that symbol had, for this fear has not been curative, I think, nor made into pleasant or graceful shape, but rather a horrid spectacle, to affright people. For that men can be frightened into piety has been one of the legacies of religion which barbarous ages have bequeathed us plentifully.

  James Vila Blake

  Men, Thinking, People

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• God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey.

  Max Anders

  People, Rebellious, Obedient

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• Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

  Agnes Repplier

  Rough Edges, Giving, Fusion

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• As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both a man and a politician, I will remember him for his pleasant demeanour and strength of character.

  Thomas Mulcair

  Country, Character, Men

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• If the world does need to repopulate at some point, the announcing team of Rob Lowe and Sofia Vergara, I think, would make very pleasant children.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Team, Thinking

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• You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!

  Katie Price

  Nice, Writing, People

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• It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Radiation, Stressful, Easier

  "Lack of privacy makes Fawcett's battle tougher", www.today.com. May 11, 2009.

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• I feel best in soft and natural materials such as cotton and silk. I wear collections from all designers. They all have outstanding cuts and extremely pleasant materials.

  Laetitia Casta

  Cutting, Cotton, Designer

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• I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Tasks

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• I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

  Bobby Fischer

  Girl, Conceited, Europe

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, 1961.

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• My object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  World, Stills, Objects

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• I like to shoot beautiful things. My two previous movies were one in the '60s, the other one in the '50s, and this one is in the '20s. This is a period that's very cinegenic. The cars, the props, the suits, the haircuts, the dresses, everything, and it gives you pleasure to compose frames with that material. The music, I really love jazz, so for me, when you have good materials and nice things, it's very pleasant.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Beautiful, Nice, Two

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius 'The Artist' Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.

  William Monahan

  Art, Practice, House

  Source: collider.com

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• When we separate the word business into its component letters, B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S, we find that U and I are both in it. In fact, if U and I were not in business, it would not be business. Furthermore, we discover that U comes before I in business and the I is silent-it is to be seen, not heard. Also, the U in business has the sound of I, which indicates it is an amalgamation of the interests of U and I. When they are properly amalgamated, business becomes harmonious, profitable, and pleasant.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sound, Letters, Facts

  Zig Ziglar (2004). “Secrets of Closing the Sale”, p.91, Revell

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• It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

  John Steinbeck

  Self Esteem, Self Love, Acquaintance

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.174, Penguin

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• (`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Nice, Heaven

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• I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fun, Nice, Average

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• Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Ideas

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• It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heaven

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• It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Bed, Supper

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.382, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend.

  Rick Bragg

  People, Way, Helping

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• That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause that's a good year for you. So that's not a pleasant feeling.

  Jon Stewart

  Years, Feelings, Comedian

  "NOW with Bill Moyers", www.pbs.org. July 11, 2003.

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• I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

  Dane Cook

  Hate, Block, White

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