"Bear good fortune modestly."

-- Decimius Magnus Ausonius

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“I devoured TV - everything from Super Friends in the morning to Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat and Fantasy Island at night. I watched it all. There were only four channels, so you could actually consume all of television if you were good at changing the channel.”

Source : Interview with Amy Sedaris, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2014.
“I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?”
“If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.”
“The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.”
“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”
“I'll be honest, I like everything about my body.”

Source : "This Incredible Nude Hammer Thrower Has the Most Uplifting Things to Say About Her Body" by Megan Friedman, www.cosmopolitan.com. July 6, 2015.
“We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren”

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