"It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life,"

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Source : Ben Affleck speech at People's Choice Awards, www.eonline.com. January, 2015.

Ben Affleck

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“You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.”
“Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.”
“Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.”
“I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to have those stories. My wife and I go off and do craziness all the time. We're just like, 'What can we go get into this weekend?' Then we have other ones where we just sit and do nothing and then we have work that we do. It's all memories.”

Source : Isabel Gillies (2009). “Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story”, p.245, Simon and Schuster
“I'm a Gucci girl all the way.”
“Options are good. Keeps people choosing.”
“The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.”

Source : Harold Adams Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.321, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
“As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.”

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