#gain

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#clear #gain #order #pain #pleasure

I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#i #know #means #olympics #out

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#forgetting #man #memory #power #struggle

Not even Ares battles against necessity. ↗

— Sophocles

#battles #even #necessity

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. ↗

— Sophocles

#gain #life #long #money #mortals

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain? ↗

— Sophocles

#dying #evils #gain #how #i

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong. ↗

— Kevin Sorbo

#changing #definition #does #equal #equals

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#against #allow #because #bit #commend

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#billion #convinced #culture #deny #faith

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#again #america #back #believe #champion