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“I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'”
Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press
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“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.”
Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014. 
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“When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”
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“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”
Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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“How long does getting thin take?”
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“Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”
Source : "Satires". Book by Juvenal, edited by A. E. Housman, p. XI, 1931.
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“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”
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“Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.”
Source : Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44
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“Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.”
