"I would like to understand things better, but I donâ€™t want to understand them perfectly."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.”

Source : Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.
“Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.”
“It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.”

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“I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.”
“The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.”
“I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.”
“I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. It is much better if you can imagine this endeavor more in the light of children's play, in fact, rather than think of it as a deadly serious adult pursuit.”
“What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.”

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