"Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds."

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Source : George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.138

George Stillman Hillard

#Running Quotes #Weed Quotes #Animal Quotes

“No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.”
“No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.”

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“These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.”
“The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.”
“I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.”
“Some guys don't have to work out as hard as other guys do, but if you balance all that together then your longevity is definitely going to be greater. So, I would tell my 20-year-old self not to over-train.”

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“A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.”
“I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.”

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