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• The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Friendship, Writing, Family And Friends

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1965). “The house of the seven gables”

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• I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

  Jeremy Renner

  Guitar, People, Cameras

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• Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

  Taylor Hackford

  People, Ego, Desire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

  Josh Radnor

  Kindness, Appreciate, Risk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Law, Nervous

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• The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an essential mass-psychological factor in imperialistic wars.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Sadism, Essentials

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

  David Ricardo

  Way, Would Be, Might

  David Ricardo (1817). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.2

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• I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Self, Ruins

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• Theatre is immediate gratification

  Chita Rivera

  Theatre, Immediate Gratification

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• We all [on Aladdin] have a passion to perform and a lot of us trained to do this and there's a certain gratification from knowing that you did your best work and knowing that you are at the level that you are at.

  Adam Jacobs

  Passion, Knowing, Levels

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.

  Ian Bogost

  Ideas, Interesting, Feelings

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on. The corresponding sins are the gratification of these passions: when a man acts and brings into corporeal reality those works which were suggested to him by his desires. It is impossible to exist without desires arising, but not to give way to them is by no means impossible.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Hate, Passion

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

  Darren Hardy

  Long, Payoff, Instant Gratification

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Oct 24, 2014

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• I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

  Neal Shusterman

  Running, Morning, Parent

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• Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Passion, Perfect, Desire

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1993). “Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates”

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• The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

  Thucydides

  Beautiful, Names, Use

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• Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence). The absence of integrity, honesty, and honor do not always bring punishment or scorn, and can be life-aggrandizing (connivers and cheats often gain power and wealth). Therefore, morality must be its own reward.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Honesty, Integrity, Punishment

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• I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Years, People, Needs

  "Macaulay Culkin as the 'Party Monster'". abcnews.go.com. September 5.

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• That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

  Beatrice Webb

  Political, Found, Drifting

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

  Eric Liu

  Hard Work, Sacrifice, People

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.89, Sasquatch Books

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• I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Shopping, Black, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

  James T. Rapier

  Bullying, Heart, Safety

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• Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.

  Joseph Cook

  Marriage, Wedding, Opportunity

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Monday Lectures in Tremont Hall, Boston, U.S.”

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• I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Sunday

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• It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

  Mark Twain

  Art, People, Ignorant

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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