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“I love being chubby because chicks that smoke pot love me. They think I have food at my house.”
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“They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.”
Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.”
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“Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.”
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“Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.”
Source : Scott Anderson (2014). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.234, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.”
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“Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.”
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“I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.”
Source : "Lessons On Blindness, 'For The Benefit Of Those Who See'". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www-s4.npr.org. January 12, 2014.