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1." Notably, Brooks suspends judgments of representations as good or bad and opts to focus on the pleasure between subject and object."

Source:  Jackson, Cassandra. "The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline ElizabethHopkins" African American Review 33.3 Sept. 22 1999: 537

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2." To ensure that enjoyable experiences of bad things could not be counted as intrinsic goods, Audi suggests that intrinsic value is organic rather than additive: it takes its value from the total context of the situation and the pleasure has to be appropriate."

Source:  van Hooft, Stan. "Moral Knowledge and Ethical Character" Hastings Center Report 29.4 July 1 1999: 38

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3." To ensure that enjoyable experiences of bad things could not be counted as intrinsic goods, Audi suggests that intrinsic value is organic rather than additive: it takes its value from the total context of the situation and the pleasure has to be appropriate."

Source:  van Hooft, Stan. "Utilitarianism, Hedonism and Desert: Essays in Moral Philosophy" Hastings Center Report 29.4 July 1 1999: 38

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4." To ensure that enjoyable experiences of bad things could not be counted as intrinsic goods, Audi suggests that intrinsic value is organic rather than additive: it takes its value from the total context of the situation and the pleasure has to be appropriate."

Source:  van Hooft, Stan. "Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry" Hastings Center Report 29.4 July 1 1999: 38

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5." The brain conditioned us to breathe by inflicting pain for bad behavior and pleasure for good."

Source:  CLARK, TIMOTHY. "Emotional Quotient Management as a Dynamic Approach to Challenges" AORN Journal 70.2 Aug. 1 1999: 277

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6." Bentham has a way of making life seem simpler than it is. He asserts that the only thing good in itself is pleasure, and the only thing bad in itself is pain."

Source:  Nussbaum, Martha C. "Mill between Aristotle & Bentham" Daedalus 133.2 Mar. 22 2004: 60-69

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7." For Spinoza, pleasure in itself is always good and pain always bad (Pt. IV. Prop."

Source:  Wyschogrod, Edith. "Ethics as First Philosophy: Levinas Reads Spinoza" Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 40.3 Sept. 22 1999: 195-207

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8." Pleasure through olfaction can only be taken by the civilised man through efforts to find and destroy 'bad' smells, this g ives an 'unrationalized pleasure in the experience' (1979:184)."

Source:  Borthwick, Fiona. "Olfaction and Taste: Invasive Odours and Disappearing Objects" Australian Journal of Anthropology 11.2 Aug. 1 2000: 127

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9." The Bad Life is to the fore in Western icons of pleasure (Coca-Cola, TV, cars and so on), either because these are intrinsically bad or because they can never be consumed by a majority of the world's population."

Source:  Corbridge, Stuart. "International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on theHistory and Politics of Knowledge" Journal of Development Studies v34.n6 Aug. 1 1998: 138-149

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10." This is a more sympathetic Ben, who, while he did destroy the Lovatt family, knows it and takes no pleasure from the bad ending."

Source:  Walters, Colin. "When the gene pool surprises" Washington Times Aug. 6 2000: 6

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11." The figures reflect cases of bad luck, but they also indicate poor seamanship; an inability to make heads or tail of the expensive navigational equipment now standard on seagoing pleasure vessels cruising..."

Source:  Hyslop, Margie. "Boating a more deadly pastime" Washington Times May 28 2000: 1

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12." Of course Francesco Clemente was never mas macho, and with the epoch-claiming clamor all but a bad memory, chief curator Lisa Dennison's 200-work retrospective should afford pleasure enough to forgive the orientalism and the angst."

Source:  . "Francesco Clemente" Artforum International 38.1 Sept. 1 1999: 31

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13." But he is aware of his failings, and can take combative pleasure in them: "In a garden under grape leaves, / he rested his head on books and wrote a bad comedy / about the seasons passing more quickly..."

Source:  SCHARF, MICHAEL. "Asleep in the Garden: New and Selected Poems" Poetry 173.4 Feb. 1 1999: 317-318

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14."... EYES best "X-Files": Kill Switch, Bad Blood & Folie a Deux guilty pleasures: SPHERE, DEEP IMPACT, SCREAM 2, WILD THINGS best soundtrack: VELVET GOLDMINE video: ASHLEY (Animal Charm); SUB-ACCIDENT (Seth Price); ACTIONS IN ACTION (HalfLifers);..."

Source:  . "Best of '98: Moments out of time" Film Comment 35.1 Jan. 1 1999: 32-33

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15." Representative items for this scale are 'I perform this activity with pleasure because of the effort required to fulfil the activity'; 'Making mistakes while performing this activity is not bad'."

Source:  Simons, Joke,Dewitte, Siegfried,Lens, Willy. "Wanting to have vs. wanting to be: The effect of perceived instrumentality on goal orientation" British Journal of Psychology 91.3 Aug. 1 2000: 335

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16." This handsome, wealthy man cuts "no bad image of [England's] antient sturdy barons" and proves exceptionally virile in bed, bringing Fanny physical pleasure, but his sexual prowess hardly distinguishes him in Fanny's mind (64)."

Source:  Smith, Jad. "How Fanny comes to know: sensation, sexuality, and the epistemology of the closet in Cleland's Memoirs" Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 44 June 22 2003: 183-203

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17."... on postmodernism's abstractly bodied theorist of pleasure." The artists--so his argument goes--are working-class "bad" girls and boys who refuse to distance themselves from the "proletarian" energies and "alienated" pleasures of popular culture."

Source:  Bush, Kate. "Young British art: Kate Bush on the YBA sensation" Artforum International 43.2 Oct. 1 2004: 103-108

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18." Mill shared many of Humboldt's concerns about the tendency of state action to produce uniformity and passivity, and he was equally opposed to valuing "lower" pleasures over "higher" ones."

Source:  Valls, Andrew. "Self-development and the liberal state: the cases of John Stuart Mill and Wilhelm von Humboldt" Review of Politics 61.2 Mar. 22 1999: 251-253

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19."... G.K.] Chesterton once noted that sex is the materialist's religion," Mr. Knight adds. "And if this is the case, then doing away with impediments to sexual pleasure would constitute the highest good."

Source:  McCain, Robert Stacy. "New author throws the book at insidious evils of relativism" Washington Times July 7 1998: 2

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20."... but his book shows a kind of greatness that always teeters on ridiculousness, a mix of low pleasures and high aspirations, an ethos of unsettling the world at every turn."

Source:  GREIF, MARK. "BLOOM IN LOVE" American Prospect 11.14 June 5 2000: 46

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21." FILM JONATHAN ROMNEY enjoys a low-budget high To say that Christopher Nolan's Following is a quiet, discreet sort of pleasure is in no way to belittle it. I don't mean it's just a clever low-budget British independent thriller."

Source:  Romney, Jonathan. "Cheap thrills" New Statesman (1996) 128.4461 Nov. 8 1999: 44

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22." Despite these relatively high levels of responsibility, participants tended to assign relatively high levels of trauma and low levels of pleasure to victims of either sexual orientation."

Source:  Mitchell, Damon,Hirschman, Richard,Hall, Gordon C. Nagayama. "Attributions of Victim Responsibility, Pleasure, and Trauma in Male Rape" Journal of Sex Research 36.4 Nov. 1 1999: 369

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23." For the total scale, reliability coefficients ranged from a low of 0.27 to a high of 0.98. The Positive Global Changes in Experience and Social and Physical Pleasure subscales had the lowest variability in..."

Source:  Kieffer, Kevin M.,Cronin, Christopher,Fister, Matthew C. "Exploring variability and sources of measurement error in alcohol expectancy questionnaire reliability coefficients: a meta-analytic reliability generalization study *" Journal of Studies on Alcohol 65.5 Sept. 1 2004: 663-672

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24."... that W.'s bulb is a trifle low on wattage must have derived some pleasure from the three priorities listed on his new Website, www.georgewbush.com in July."

Source:  THREADGILL, SUSAN. "Who's Who" Washington Monthly 32.9 Sept. 1 2000: 18

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25." Unusually flirtatious for coming from a Muslim culture, the women's ambling walk and swinging arms betrayed self-confidence and pleasure at the men's wide-stance and low-to-the-ground circling."

Source:  FELCIANO, RITA. "A WHIRLWIND OF WORLD DANCE" Dance Magazine 74.9 Sept. 1 2000: 90

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