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"Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul."
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Personal Development
"When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way."
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Personal Development
"There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer."
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Personal Development
"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."
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Personal Development
"Nobody objected to live in prisonif already felt comfortable living in it."
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Personal Development
"The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments."
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Personal Development
"They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind."
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Personal Development
"Authentic people are so comfortable in their own skins they make us more comfortable in our own."
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Personal Development
"Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide."
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Personal Development
"Comfort, though can be a real reason for mediocrity and conformity, improves speed and enhances mind power greatly!"
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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
Ethics
"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."
Science
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
Science
"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."
Science
"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
Earth
"We are all star stuff."
Science
"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
Truth
"Evolution is adventitious and not foresighted. Only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today."
Science
"However, in part for reasons of organizationalconvenience, modern societies are structured as if all humans had the same sleep requirements; and in many parts of the world there is a satisfying sense of moral rectitude in rising early. The amount of sleep required for buffer dumping would then depend on how much we have both thought and experienced since the last sleep period."
Health
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
Philosophy
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