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“Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.”
Source : Barbara Bretton (2001). “A Soft Place to Fall”, Berkley
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“Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.”
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“Twitter is a much more dangerous cauldron of groupthink than happy hours or dinners. On Twitter the reward comes from agreeing or loudly disagreeing with the joke, or the "smart take." In person you hash things out.”
Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 2, 2013.
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“It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.”
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“The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.”
Source : "Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.
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“Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters.”
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“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
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“The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.”
Source : Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.387, London, Trübner and Company