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"We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot."
"yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism"
"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."
"The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead."
"My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people."
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
"I think food culture is always evolving, and there will constantly be people looking both forward and back. That's what makes it exciting."
"Stupid people are ruining America."
"The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first"
"Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions."
"People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?"
"...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best."
"People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons."
"I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable."
"Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours."
"Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs"
"One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day."
"We are the people our parents warned us about."
"Too many people, right now are playing it small. If you want to be SUCCESSFUL, Live BIG, Think BIG, & make every day of your life COUNT!"
"People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself."
