"A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage."

-- A. J. Jacobs

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“The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.”
“The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.”
“I want her to be powerful on these covers, and sometimes that's a quiet power and other times it's a more bombastic power. But when you're going to have a book out there that's called Wonder Woman and she's on it, you have a responsibility to put out a certain kind of image.”
“The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge (1833). “Poems”, p.54
“He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. â€œWe both know Iâ€™m not a gentleman.â€ â€œYeah. Okay, let me out. Iâ€™m tired.â€ â€œThereâ€™s something else,â€ he said, and I groaned. â€œWhat now?â€ â€œThis.â€ He stepped closer to me, so close that the containers were sandwiched between us. His eyes looked down into mine, intent and golden, like a lion. â€œOh, no, you donâ€™t!â€ I hissed, dropping everything. I pushed hard against his chest; it was like shoving a tree. â€œYes,â€ he said very softly, leaning down. â€œYes, I do.”
“Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.”
“The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.”
“My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.”

Source : "Ian Hislop: satirist in chief". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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