#plea

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#actions #cannot #defence #hitler #immediate

Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

#pleasures #tax

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#being #bring #could #hebrews #his

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

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We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#modern #pleasure #provides #speed

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#me #modern #pleasure #provides #seems

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#any #black #concealed #every #find

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#being #committed #enriching #focus #genuine