"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."

-- Lord Chesterfield

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“If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself.”

Source : Alison Jolly (2001). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”, p.62, Harvard University Press
“I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that is more fun than alcoholism. I know it has its downside, but I'll tell you, there's no other party disease like alcohol.”
“No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.”
“I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.”
“The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.”
“I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.”
“Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?”
“Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.”

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