#sure

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. ↗

— Marcel Achard

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Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. ↗

— Arthur Adamov

#pleasure

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. ↗

— John Acton

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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#experience #fruit #great #great virtues #leisure

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown. ↗

— Felix Adler

#almost #attention #capital #civilization #country

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. ↗

— Scott Adams

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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. ↗

— James Allen

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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

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There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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