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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Conscience Cruelty Delight Good Hell Invented Why

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Being Delight Exaltation Excellence Found Highest Man Mathematics More Poetry Sense Spirit Surely Than Touchstone True Which

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'Rapper's Delight' was done in 17 minutes. Just one take, no mistakes, and it went to press from there. The record went platinum in 8 days.

~Big Bank Hank

Topics: Days Delight Done Just Just One Minutes Mistakes Platinum Press Rapper Record Take

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Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

~Boris Pasternak

Topics: Back Best Brings Come Day Delight Efforts Energy Exhausted First Forgotten Just Lies Life One Time Order Our Remember Seemingly Starts Stores Therein Time Work You

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I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.

~Boy George

Topics: Alive Appetite Big Dance Deep Delight Discovered House Low Much Play Real Very

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I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards.

~Bradley Chicho

Topics: Delight Moments Muppet Share Sour Sweet Together

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Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.

~Bram Stoker

Topics: Could Count Country Course Delight Directed Dracula Found Go Golden Great Had Hotel Me Old-Fashioned See Thoroughly Wanted Ways Which

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Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

~Brenda Laurel

Topics: Boy Complex Delight Develop Earlier Enjoy Girl Interaction Skills Social Social Interaction Than Them Using Verbal

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The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

~Carol P. Christ

Topics: Ancient Birth Death Delight Diversity Europe Form Goddess Life Nature Old Powers Regeneration Unity

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Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in, you feel known, and the delight in books is just infectious.

~Caroline Leavitt

Topics: About Books Bookstores Community Delight Feel Indie Infectious Just Known Love Much Readers Something Store Walk Where Writers You

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