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Lifestyle Quotes
"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."
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"Be busy with your free life."
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"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
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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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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."
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"Lose weight, eat backwards."
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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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"Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me."
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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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"We are not the sum of our possessions."
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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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"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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"Suspense is worse than disappointment."
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"I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all."
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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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"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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"Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself."
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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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"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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"If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone."
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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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"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
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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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"Life is all about doing what you feel is best for you."
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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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"Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?"
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"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed."
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"The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one."
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"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."
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"Living simply makes loving simple."
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"The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine."
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