"Severe isn't a word normally associated with a cold. Severe is for weather or third-degree burns...No one responds 'severe' when someone asks how her cold is.In fact, nine out of ten Americans respond to 'How's your cold' with 'It sucks.' So there should be an It Sucks cold formula."

-- Celia Rivenbark

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“I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.”
“To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.”
“Don't make the body fit into the clothes. It really is, it's really respecting an individual and trying to cater to that individual's needs. And I guess that's what really is important for each one of us, dealing with each other in society, is look at the person in front of you, look at the individual in front of you and treat that person as a unique individual being. And I think we get along better, not just fashion-wise, but in terms of just dealing with people day-to-day.”
“Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.”
“A quiet conscience makes one so serene.”
“Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?”
“These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.”
“My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.”

Source : "Stéphane Hessel fought injustice all his great life" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2013.

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