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• The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

  Mortimer Adler

  Satisfaction, Kind, Ends

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1977). “Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling”, Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press

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• He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

  Samuel Butler

  Care, Enjoy, Gods Will

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.73, Samuel Butler

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• For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Achievement, Form

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

  Siobhan Davies

  Ideas, Splinters, Pieces

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• A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

  Walter Bagehot

  Air, Civilization, Luxury

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

  Warren Zevon

  Mean, Hollies, Berries

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• O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Lotuses, Body, Thorns

  "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.

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• My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sorry, Boys, Smoking

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• Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.

  Erin McCarthy

  Honey, Have Faith, Enjoy

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• The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Every minute of life I take a risk; it's part of the enjoyment.

  Otto Preminger

  Risk, Minutes, Risk It

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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.108, Penguin

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• There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Fun, Mirth, Havens

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.56, New York : Stringer and Townsend

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• Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Feelings, Use, Moments

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• Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

  Stephen King

  Book, Perfect, Batteries

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• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Happy

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.395, Psychology Press

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• I have had no real gratification or enjoyment of any sort more than my neighbour on the next block who is worth only half a million.

  William Henry Vanderbilt

  Block, Real, Half

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• Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned.

  John Carroll

  Strong, Children, Men

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• As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.

  David Cobley

  Real, Boys, Imagination

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• Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning.

  Wendy Doniger

  Mother, Wine, Understanding

  Wendy Doniger (1988). “Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism”, p.135, Manchester University Press

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• Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

  John Kurtz

  Artist, Vision, Paint

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• I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

  John Keats

  Drinking, Ideas, World

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.83, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself...As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called 'I'; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Love, Struggle, Heaven

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• The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment.

  John Carroll

  Independent, Law, Moral

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.26, Taylor & Francis

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• The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life. The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks.

  Winslow Homer

  Giving, Balance, Sun

  1895 Letter to his brother, Charles, 23 Feb.

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