The Life On Jupiter And Other Planets
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, […]
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(Ep. 10) #MSO “Ja’hn Morant” The Spann Report
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(Ep. 9) #MSO “Preferences, Gaslighting, & All Of The Words” The Spann Report
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(Ep. 8) #MSO “A Weird Fight For Custody” The Spann Report
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What Is the Relevance of Technology? Mr. Spann
“Technology in the long-run is irrelevant”. That is what a customer of mine told me when I made a presentation to him about about a new product. I had been talking about the product’s features and benefits and listed “state-of-the-art technology” or something to that effect, as one of them.
No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Somebody’s Quote
To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it?
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