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- Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
- Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
- Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
- I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
- Mary Pettibone Poole
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
- We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
- Etty Hillesum
- Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
- Sir Robert Hutchinson
- The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
- Anthony Starr
- A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
- Annie Dillard
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