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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.: Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, 2011
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Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.: Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, 2010
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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.: Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
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In the modern world, self-control buys a good life indeed. Having self-control to spare is rare enough nowadays that the marketplace lavishes huge rewards on society's scary new self-control elite, those lords of discipline who not only withstood all that boring stuff in graduate school, but keep themselves thin by carefully regulating what they eat after flogging themselves off to the gym at the crack of dawn. It's as if they got the news ahead of the rest of us-no doubt by waking up earlier-that self-control may well be the most important trait of the twenty-first century.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.: William James (1842 - 1910), The Principles of Psychology
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
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We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Speech on the sub-Treasury, December 26, 1839
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He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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The home of a clergyman is constantly judged by its parishioners. If it is too large and richly decorated, it is the subject of jealousy. If it is too small and humble, it is the subject of scorn. If it is too clean and orderly, it is considered a museum where charity is untouched and kept in a box. If it is slovenly, it is the subject of disgust.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
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