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Lifestyle Quotes
"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
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"Be busy with your free life."
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"I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat."
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"I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort."
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"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."
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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."
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"Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda.The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis."
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"Lose weight, eat backwards."
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"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
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"Think Positively.Network well.Eat healthy.Work Smart.Stay Strong.Build faith.Worry less.Read more.Be happy.Volunteer freely.Relax often.Love always.Live eternallyand you will see doors open to your favor."
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"We are not the sum of our possessions."
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"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
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"But I'm really enjoying my retirement. I get to sleep in every day. I do crossword puzzles and eat cake."
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"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
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"Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky."
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"I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view."
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"Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me."
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"I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too..."
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"Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number."
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"From the Buddhist point of view, all living beings -- that is, beings with feelings, experiences, and sensations -- are considered equal. Human beings can live without eating meat. As human beings, I think that deep down our nature tends towards vegetarianism and leads us to do everything in our power to prevent harming other species."
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"And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing."
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"Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine."
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"The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!"
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"You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life."
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"Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches."
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"If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone."
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"I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all."
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"Information and communication technologies have changed the way of life completely. Nowadays, many people reach for their smart phones and/or turn their computers on as soon as they wake up. They look at the news on social networks and check e-mails, before they get dressed or have breakfast."
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"The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one."
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"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."
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"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."
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"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."
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"Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism."
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"It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time."
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