“We shouldn’t congratulate ourselves for resisting temptations we never felt in the first place.”
– Alain de Botton
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Threesome – Unknown
“I don’t mean to brag, but I’m 2 girls away from a threesome.”
– Unknown
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Regret – Alain de Botton
“Regret is the price we pay for choice.”
– Alain de Botton
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Dangerous – Voltaire
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
– Voltaire
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In the summer – Nizam Qabbani
“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
– Nizam Qabbani
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I cannot change the world – Martin Sheen
“I cannot change the world. The only one I can change is myself. If I change myself, come to some realization, grow a little bit, maybe that’s the measure of change in the world I can have. But otherwise it would be a reflection of my ego and absurdity to think that I would ever change anyone or anything. I just do it for myself, because I cannot not do it and be myself.”
– Martin Sheen
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Nobody was watching – Keith Jensen
“What Orwell failed to predict was that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”
– Keith Jensen
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Purpose – Mark Manson
“Discovering one’s “purpose” in life essentially boils down to finding those one or two things that are bigger than yourself, and bigger than those around you. And to find them you must get off your couch and act, and take the time to think beyond yourself, to think greater than yourself, and paradoxically, to imagine a world without yourself.”
– Mark Manson
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Fear and anxiety – Freud
The distinction between fear (a response to something proximate and present) and anxiety (a response to something anticipated and abstract)
– Freud
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Cross of Iron – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Love – Martin Luther King, Jr
“I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that”
– Martin Luther King, Jr
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?…Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger…I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over.”
– Muhammad Ali
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Salad – Unknown
“I’ve seen salad that can dress better then you.”
– Unknown
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Burns and flies – C. JoyBell C.
“They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can’t stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that’s a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it!”
– C. JoyBell C.
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Normal – Matt Haig
“There are several billion versions of normal on this planet.”
– Matt Haig