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Lifestyle Quotes
"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."
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"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."
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"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
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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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"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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"I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist."
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"Raise your vibration, Not your tone of voice..You gain inspiration, For Peace is a choice."
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"Loneliness is the ultimate poverty."
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"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."
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"They say the best things in life are free, and they are if you can afford them."
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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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"It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time."
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"Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting."
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"Want less, need less, live more."
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"Stay positive. Be kind. Love your family. Set goals. Be humble. Respect all. Laugh loudly. Be honest. Do your best. Stay focused. Practice gratitude."
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"Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism."
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"If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time."
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"But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing."
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"I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don't cook that well. They tend to use too much salt, fat, and sugar - much more than you would ever use at home."
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"Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either."
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"Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved."
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"He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people… I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design."
"You say this as if you envied him."
"There are worse prisons than words."
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"As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving."
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"The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn."
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"Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts."
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"If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail."
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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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"She was well primed with a good load of Delahunt's port under her bellyband."
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"So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control--what happens to our jobs, to the prices at the gas station, to the vote in the legislature. But somehow food still feels a little different. We can still decide, every day, what we're going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in. We can, in other words, reject the industrial omelet on offer and decide to eat another."
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"Add value too your time, chill out with good people."
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"Single is no longer a lack of options " but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself out."
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