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“A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.”
Source : Howard Fast (2011). “April Morning”, p.18, Open Road Media
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“She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.”
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“The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.”
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“Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.”
Source : Larry Dossey (2009). “Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing”, p.22, Harper Collins
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“Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who can be persuaded to hate millions of their own kind whom they have never seen and to kill as many as they can lay their hands on in the name of their tribe or their God.”
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“The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.”
Source : Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“I shouldn't have called out Will Ferrell, but I am getting a little fed up with these people.You want to support Bernie Sanders, knock yourself out. Does he know what Bernie stands for? Does he know what Bernie wants? And I submit to you, he doesn't.”
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“War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.”
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“About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.”
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“That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.”
