“ The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. ”
- Howard Cosell- Copy
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“ The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. ”
- Luc De Clapiers- Copy
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“ That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived. ”
- Ralph Charell- Copy
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“ Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. ”
- Paul Wiener- Copy
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“ Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. ”
- Pope Paul VI- Copy
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“ All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power. ”
- Friedrich List- Copy
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“ I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life. ”
- Mike Leigh- Copy
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“ God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light. ”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel- Copy
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“ Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. ”
- Elizabeth Hardwick- Copy
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“ When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done. ”
- Goodman Ace- Copy
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“ America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans. ”
- Paula Gunn Allen- Copy
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“ What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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