"News is to the mind what sugar is to the body."

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Source : "News is bad for you - and giving up reading it will make you happier" by Rolf Dobelli, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

#Mind Quotes #News Quotes #Body Quotes

“A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.”

Source : Citizens United, Appellant v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, 2010.
“Under Hitler or Stalin a GÃ³ral [Tatra-highlander] could choose to produce oscypek [smoked cheese] however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him.”
“Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze ...”
“I couldn't love anyone more than I do you, it would kill me. And I couldn't love anyone less because it would always feel like less. Even if I loved some other girl, that's all I would ever think about, the difference between loving her and loving you.”
“I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.”
“I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.”
“I don't want to be one of those people who falls out of cabs drunk. But I don't want to be known as some boring girl who just sits at home and doesn't do anything.”
“Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?”

Source : "The Saturday interview: Justin Welby, Bishop of Durham". Interview with Giles Fraser, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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