"People are either born hosts or born guests."

-- Max Beerbohm

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“I'm such a sucker for love and I believe in it and I always want it to win.”

Source : "Sophia Bush: 'I’m Such a Sucker for Love'". Interview with Zach Johnson, www.usmagazine.com. August 11, 2012.
“One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.”
“When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.”
“...In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since sugar consumption is only one of a number of indices of wealth, the same sort of association (to coronary disease) exists with fat consumption, cigarette smoking, cars...”

Source : John Yudkin (1972). “Sweet and dangerous: the new facts about the sugar you eat as a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and other killers”
“There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.”
“But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world”
“We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.”

Source : Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.286, tredition
“During the hard training phase never be afraid to take a day off. If your legs are feeling unduly stiff and sore, rest; if you are at all sluggish, rest; in fact, if in doubt, rest.”

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