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1." For, from an inexplicable defect of harmony in the constitution of human nature, the pain of the inferior is frequently connected with the pleasures of the superior portions of our being."

Source:  Peacock, Thomas Love,Shelley, Percy Bysshe,Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "What is utility?" Arts Education Policy Review 105.6 July 1 2004: 33-39

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2." Human moral action "has its origin in thought, rather than sensation." Still, most science and all economic theory begins with the presumption that the pain and pleasure principle of self-interest guides human behavior - and thus is human nature."

Source:  Witham, Larry. "Panel mulls duality of human nature: Empathy, lack of same draw scrutiny" Washington Times Oct. 20 1999: 2

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3." That he and other Cajuns celebrate the pain as well as the pleasure in their fight for cultural identity mightily impresses Linda Smelser, 49, an Augusta dance student..."

Source:  Longaker, Mark. "Mountain musicians lend ear to Louisiana" Washington Times July 27 2000: 4

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4." To recover lost happiness we should allow ourselves, he feels, to be guided by our innate instinct for pleasure and our avoidance of pain. "After all," he wrote long ago, "freedom from pain and anxiety is the goal of everything we do." Perhaps."

Source:  Philp, Richard. "Health" Dance Magazine 74.2 Feb. 1 2000: 12

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5." Freud wrote in 1905+ "Seeing is ultimately derived from touching," which is sexually "indispensable," "a source of pleasure." The most "touching" textures in paint are subliminally sexual, that is, poignantly suggestive of tactile sensations abstracted from an object."

Source:  Kuspit, Donald. "NORA SPEYER" Artforum International 38.10 June 22 2000: 186

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6." Full of mischief and perhaps arrogance, too, Franklin challenged what he regarded as Wollaston's shaky "Reasonings" by writing "a little metaphysical piece" entitled A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain."

Source:  MORGAN, DAVID T. "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: CHAMPION OF GENERIC RELIGION" Historian 62.4 June 22 2000: 722

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7."... I would have cured / the leukemia of this highway of nightfall." More frequently, however, Crasnaru's flash has real heat behind it: The ah of pain, the ah of pleasure."

Source:  ORR, DAVID. "Sea Level Zero" Poetry 176.5 Aug. 1 2000: 292

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8."... and desire." Outside the orbit of pleasure and pain, "euphoria" can only be "freedom." Yet the phrase "affective freedom" implies both freedom from affect and freedom that is itself affective."

Source:  TERADA, REI. "Pathos" Studies in Romanticism 39.1 Mar. 22 2000: 27

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9." Addiction should not simply be regarded as the need for the addictive substance but rather as a complex process fulfilling, however temporarily, an individual's need for pleasure and avoidance of pain."

Source:  Provet, Peter. "Why addiction cannot be moderate" Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly 12.30 July 31 2000: 5

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10."... of pleasure and excruciating pain at the same time, a moment of broken skin but not sexlessness, a moment just before sexlessness, a moment that stops just before sexlessness, a moment that stops before it breaks the skin" (184)."

Source:  Rushdy, Ashraf H.A. ""Relate Sexual to Historical": Race, Resistance, and Desire in Gayl Jones's Corregidora" African American Review 34.2 June 22 2000: 273

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11." Addiction should not simply be regarded as the need for the addictive substance but rather as a complex process fulfilling, however temporarily, an individual's need for pleasure and avoidance of pain."

Source:  Provet, Peter. "Why addiction cannot be moderate" Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly 12.30 July 31 2000: 5

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12." Richardson paints a portrait of the courtship of death that produces sadistic and voyeuristic pleasures for not only Lovelace and the viewers of the corpse, but also for the novel's reader."

Source:  ZIGAROVICH, JOLENE. "COURTING DEATH: NECROPHILIA IN SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S CLARISSA" Studies in the Novel 32.2 June 22 2000: 112

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13." The differend asks for expression, and the pain of silence or the pleasure of expression reflects this lack or creation of a new idiom (Lyotard, 1988, p. 13)."

Source:  Topp, Warren. "Generative Conversations: Applying Lyotard's Discourse Model to Knowledge Creation Within Contemporary Organizations" Systems Research and Behavioral Science 17.4 July 1 2000: 333

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14."... bridle reins pull my head back till I scream with pain slowly slowly slowly and you're pleasured around your neck I'll move them especially heavy maybe twisting I'll pull and I'll..."

Source:  Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven. "Opening the Letters" Tikkun 15.4 July 1 2000: 71

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15." Where much of contemporary American culture now places the highest valuation on pleasure, especially sexual pleasure, and on the avoidance of any sort of pain,..."

Source:  Levenson, Jon D. "The New Enemies of Circumcision" Commentary 109.3 Mar. 1 2000: 29

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16." If insurers can provide for a man's pleasure, why can't they prevent a woman's pain of unwanted pregnancy?"

Source:  Washington, Adrienne T. "Men lend a deaf ear to the debate on women's issues" Washington Times July 25 2000: 2

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17." If, as Michael Bristol remarks, "feminism is the refusal to make aesthetic or imaginative pleasure out of actual historical pain," it is here, as..."

Source:  BACH, REBECCA ANN. "Mrs. Caliban: A Feminist Postmodernist Tempest?" CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 41.4 June 22 2000: 391

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18." The individual is, in the words of Thorstein Veblen, "a lightening calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous globule of desire of happiness" (Hunt 1979:303)."

Source:  KLITGAARD, KENT. "Environmental Reforms in the United States: Policy and Political Implications, and Economic and Scientific Arguments" International Journal of Comparative Sociology 41.1 Feb. 1 2000: 49

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19." Policy framed in accordance with utility seeks to maximise pleasure and minimise pain (Bentham 1973)."

Source:  Levin-Waldman, Oren M. "Minimum Wage and Justice? [1]" Review of Social Economy 58.1 Mar. 1 2000: 43

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20." Suffer and smile, one supposes, for Hampson provoked both pain and pleasure at Segerstrom Hall on January 25, when he and the pianist Craig Rutenberg interrupted an all-Mahler..."

Source:  Mermelstein, David. "Concert note" New Criterion 18.7 Mar. 1 2000: 51

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21."... systemically collapse--and I became difficult to "access" the value Examining the lovers, it's hard to believe that such control over pleasure exists-- when the organic production of pain from disease progression flourishes ..."

Source:  DENT, TORY. "What Calendars Have Become" American Poetry Review 29.1 Jan. 1 2000: 32

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22." Grievous Bodily Harm) Heroin (dope, smack, Reduces ability to feel pain, while H, brown sugar, bringing on intense pleasure. downtown) Inhalants..."

Source:  VILBIG, PETER. "New Highs, New Risks" New York Times Upfront 132.18 May 8 2000: 10

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23."... "Calm pleasures there abide--majestic pains." The balance and steadiness of the line express an ideal classical repose which "happy ghosts" enjoy eternally."

Source:  Greenberg, Martin. "Hazlitt & Wordsworth: the language of poetry" New Criterion 18.6 Feb. 1 2000: 10

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24." This would imply that issues of personal pain, pleasure, and the achievement of other life goals are secondary matters."

Source:  . "Judging Who Should Live: Schneiderman and Jecker on the Duty Not to Treat" Issues in Law & Medicine 15.3 Mar. 22 2000: 333

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25." My mother, like a lot of others (and now including my daughter), didn't see her life as a sacrifice but as one of life's pleasures (and pains)."

Source:  Fields, Suzanne. "We've come a long way, Betty Friedan" Washington Times May 8 2000: 19

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