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• Boy, get your head out of the stars above, You get the maximum pleasure from a minimum of love.
  Save your heart and let your body be enough, To get the maximum pleasure from a minimum of love....
• Pain past is pleasure.
• Scars of pleasure, Scars of pain.
• Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by i
  but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control....
• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
  -- Macaulay, "History of England, I...
• We gave our organs to science and plan to do the same with our piano.
• For the memory of love is sweet, Though the love itself were in vain And what I have lost of pleasure, Assuage what I find of pain.
  -- Lyste...
• Any minimum criteria set will be the maximum value used. -- Robbin's Minimax Rule of Governme
• Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
  -- Abraham Joshua Heschel...