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Patrick Swift
"Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works."
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Patrick Swift
#Art Quotes
#Numbers Quotes
#Important Quotes
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“If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.”
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“MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.”
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“You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.”
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“Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.”
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“To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.”
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“There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.”
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“A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.”
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“It's hard having kids because it's boring... It's just being with them on the floor while they be children. They read Clifford the Big Red Dog to you at a rate of 50 minutes a page, and you have to sit there and be horribly proud and bored at the same time.”
