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Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring… — Rumer Godden
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never… — Oscar Wilde
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away. — Saint Augustine
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but… — Jerry Garcia
I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One… — Keith Richards
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. — Thomas Jefferson
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a… — William Ralph Inge
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a… — George Santayana
Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. — Elizabeth Bowen
Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going… — Jackie Kay
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his… — Thomas Huxley
I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right. They have a… — Cesar Chavez
The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get… — Cesar Chavez
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin. — Groucho Marx
I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a revolving door. — Cher
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man — Thomas Jefferson
I've been noticing gravity since I was very young. — Cameron Diaz
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… — Thomas Jefferson
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect. — J. G. Holland
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be… — John Ruskin
Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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