"And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything, especially me."

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Erin McKean

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Car Quotes

“If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.”
“I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.”

Source : "Naomi Knows It All" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 7, 2012.
“The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.”

Source : Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.65, Health Research Books
“Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.”
“Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.”

Source : "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.
“Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an avalanche, as instances of general forces, as not yet fully human because utterly conditioned by their circumstances. Where Turgenev saw men, Marx saw classes of men; where Turgenev saw people, Marx saw the People. These two ways of looking at the world persist into our own time and profoundly affect, for better or for worse, the solutions we propose to our social problems.”
“There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.”

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