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"It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"

"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."

"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."

"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free."

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses."

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."
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