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“I would say that I had to change about eating out. I used to love eating out all the time. Eating out isn't always good. I ate a lot of fast food. So I had to slow that down and that's helped me a lot.”
Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. May 8, 2014. 
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“The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.”
Source : Thomas Guthrie (1865). “Man and the Gospel”, p.21
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“Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.”
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“All presidents - particularly war presidents, presidents inclined to the imperial presidency - invoke Abraham Lincoln as a justification, but they omit these three defenses of Lincoln's strong actions. Suspend habeas, blockade, increase army without congress, arrest Maryland legislators, etc.”
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“The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.”
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“I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.”
Source : "Wild child" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2005.
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“But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.”
Source : 1980 Journal entry, 4 Jan.
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“At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.”
