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“Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”
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“I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.”
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“To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.”
Source : Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.19, Paulist Press
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“About 90 percent of all soy is genetically modified (GMO). Soy is also one of the top seven allergens, and is widely known to cause immediate hypersensitivity reactions. While in the last forty years soy has occupied an important place in the transition from an unhealthy meat-based diet to vegetarian and vegan cuisine, it is time for us to upgrade our food choice to one having more benefits, and fewer negative possibilities. In 1986, Stuart Berger, MD, placed soy among the seven top allergens - one of the "sinister seven." At the time, most experts listed soy around tenth or eleventh.”
Source : Gabriel Cousens (2007). “There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program”, p.179, North Atlantic Books
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“Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?”
Source : "No one has suffered like Nora Ephron -- well, except for me" by Ms. Gonick, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2006.
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“Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?'”
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“I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.”
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“Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.”