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• The particular way I’m going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won’t be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.

  Randy Pausch

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• A children’s author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

  Anthony Horowitz

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• If I don’t feel like I’m doing the job well, and I don’t know how to get there, or I’m too scared, or whatever, I’m not a happy guy and I’m not pleasant. I’m not pleasant to be around.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

  Christina Rossetti

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• There are certain ways of being that people don’t find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

  Michael Shannon

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• Home wasn’t a pleasant place to live, growing up.

  David Morse

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• The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

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• One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

  Gertrude Stein

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• I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.

  Finley Peter Dunne

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• Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

  Fawn M. Brodie

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• There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

  Todd Rundgren

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• I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.

  Cole Younger

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• It’s not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

  Chuck Noll

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• 1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:

  Chuck Mangione

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• Teaching was the most pleasant thing I did.

  Earl Butz

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• I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

  Aslan Maskhadov

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• I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

  William Dampier

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• I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

  that life may be a pleasant road

  Adelaide Anne Procter

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• It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

  Epicurus

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