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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.


Anne Rice
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?


Samuel Johnson
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.


Arthur Schopenhauer
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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Tony Robbins
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
Warren E. Burger
I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.
Daniel Kahneman
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
Will Smith
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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.


George Steiner
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I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.


Vagit Alekperov
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.


Adlai E. Stevenson
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.


Arthur Schopenhauer
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The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.


Sebastian Horsley
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Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
Leslie Jamison
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Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
Philip Green
The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
Taufik Hidayat
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.


Pierre Bonnard
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
Georg Simmel