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If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat Michael Pollan
If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs. Doris Lessing
If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet. Frank Darabont
If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision. Thomas Merton
Margaret Thatcher quote: "If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to..."
If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher
Ulysses S. Grant quote: "If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign..."
If I thought this war was to abolish slavery, I would resign my commission and offer my sword to the other side Ulysses S. Grant
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edmond Rostand quote: "And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd..."
And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips. Edmond Rostand
Thomas Hardy quote: "If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals..."
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? Thomas Hardy
If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to pass your enthusiasm to a child. Find a child and read to it often the things you admire, not being afraid to read the classics. Robert MacNeil
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. Dolly Parton
If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all the great religions of the world?" Birbal was a devout Brahmin from Trivikrampur, but he answered unhesitatingly, "I would say to them that in my opinion they were all atheists as well; I merely believe in one god less than each of them." "How so?" the Emperor asked. "All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own," said Birbal. ... Salman Rushdie
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. Albert Camus
If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work. J. G. Ballard
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is! Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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