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“First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.”
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“Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.”
Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.47, New York Review of Books
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“Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.”
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“The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness.”
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“Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.”
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“What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such as the principle of mathematical induction. The validity of these premises is an entirely independent matter which can safely be left to philosophers.”
Source : Timothy Gowers (2010). “Mathematics”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
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“The horse loves the hound, and I loves both.”
Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
