"Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves."

-- Thomas Sherlock

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“Nobody adopts antisocial behaviour unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.”
“The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a very definable system on how to get paid in HipHop. Busta Rhymes is someone who took that road and sure enough got paid. As long people like him are allowed to continue to do that it wont change. There is a very specific sound and a very specific attitude, and it changes every year, but as long as you stay in there and keep doing it, and keep narrowing your scope, dressing the rigt ways etc. you get paid.”
“The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”
“Realize that "I Can't" usually means "I won't"!”

Source : Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”
“Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood.”
“A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.”
“I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.”
“I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my wife, and thus I am able to draw on this auxiliary memory bank. Moreover, there is a second way In which I get ideas ... I listen carefully to what my wife says, and in this way I often get a good idea. I recommend to ... young people ... that you make a permanent acquisition of an auxiliary memory bank that you can become familiar with and draw upon throughout your lives.”

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