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“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”
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“I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.”
Source : Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War”
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“New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.”
Source : Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan
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“There is a simple maxim that I use to express this situation, 'when tolerance becomes a one way street, it leads to cultural suicide.'”
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“Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.”
Source : Jennifer Crusie (2011). “Faking It”, p.325, Macmillan
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“It is certainly not true that the population can be easily divided into those who lead healthy lifestyles, and those who do not: most people's patterns are mixed, with both good and bad areas of life.”
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“It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong.”
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“If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.”
