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It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?: John Kerry (1943 - ), 9/19/05 Senator John Kerry's Speech at Brown University http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2005_09_19.html
Determine to live life with flair and laughter.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
The tree of life is self pruning.: Joel Determan, Darwin Awards
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.: Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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Our choices add up; each one influences others, and cumulatively a series of delightful short-term choices can leave us much worse off in the long run.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Annual message to Congress on the State of the Union, January 30, 1961
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