"The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones."

-- Peter McWilliams

#Pain Quotes #Health Quotes #May Quotes

“When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.”
“It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.”

Source : Raphael Patai (2015). “The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology”, p.29, Wayne State University Press
“what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.”
“They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date”

Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.
“I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.”
“Common sense dictates that a trace gas needed for life on the planet would not be the cause for destroying life on the planet. Common sense dictates that what has happened before without man can happen again with man. Common sense would dictate that you not believe me, or any one else, but go look for YOURSELF.”
“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

Source : Statement to the press in July 1969. "The Beatles: An Oral History". Book by Alan Lysaght and David Pritchard, p. 285, 1998.
“I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.”

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