"Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears."

-- Washington Irving

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“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn, Ruth L. Miller (2012). “The New Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.53, Simon and Schuster
“Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.”
“The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex.”
“Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.”
“Good keepers sniff out attacks whether with the feet or a throw out.”

Source : "Wandering With USA Goalkeeper Tim Howard" by Alan Black, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2011.
“In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.”
“I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.”
“Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.”

Source : "Bloody Men" l. 1 (1992)

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