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To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen. Michael Pollan
Work Me Made Way Distinct Gives Kitchen Purpose Feeding Reminded How Came Up Itself Mammal Quite Where Hog Story Interest Apart Shoulder Large Groups Keener Found Pork Butcher Muscles
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. Miguel de Unamuno
Good Fool Argument Some About He Spoiled Knows Talking Lot Who
Obedience is a strong virtue, capable of making me master of my emotions by giving me more strength to conquer my pride as I submit to those above me out of respect for their God-given authority and those below me out of love. Mother Angelica
Love Strength Me Respect Obedience Emotions Strong Pride Giving Master Submit Virtue Those Out Above More Making God-Given Authority Capable Conquer Below
A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land. Mother Angelica
Life Family Relatives Strangers Bone Our Distant Synonymous Brothers Spirit Makes Always Foreign Foreign Land Sisters Family Life May Land Flesh Who
Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing. Mother Angelica
Education God Man First Calm Society Weakness Finds Blames Rationalize He Environment Wrong Wrong-Doing Excuses Does Doing His Sins Then Reasons Conscience
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things. Randy Pausch
Walls Out Badly How Want Us Show Reason Brick Keep Things
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. Roger Babson
Health Good Character Knowledge Property Money Will Power Lose Destroyed Purchasing Purchasing Power Demand Judgement Always Conditions May
Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash. Sarah Kay
Me People World Slow Become Slow Motion Faces Colors Feels Days Most Massive Around Am Motion Still Blur Standing Wash Watch
I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. Temple Grandin
Me Animal Sail Sit Down Latest Systems Would Find Boring About Someone Never Talk Likes Talking Concrete Sake Bunch Quite Just Information Forming Interesting Social Really Engineers Who Now
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Timothy Leary
You Pick Like Another Always Doing Up Move Groove Your Needle
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands. William Lyon Phelps
Life Better Horizon Finer Steadily Tower Like Halfway Becomes Climbing Up Than View Base
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Abraham Joshua Heschel
Blessing Live Just Holy
Our ideals are our better selves. Amos Bronson Alcott
Inspirational Better Our Ideals Selves
A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college. Amy Chua
Today Gratitude Experience Entitlement Better Will Responsibility College Parents Sense Humility Hey Say Kids Bad Something Wrong Feel Know Make Terrified Lot Done Children Social Them Might Should Who They Say
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. Benjamin E. Mays
Dreams Dream Calamity Die Unfulfilled
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. Charles Kendall Adams
Success Distinction Above Determines Eminent Excellence Student Attains Simply Over Him Doing Ultimate Greatness Very Required Ever Amount
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. Ellsworth Huntington
Love Nature Learning Beauty Too Healers Greatest
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom. Gordon Gee
Wisdom You Soul Inspire First Beauty Nothing Others Shared Simply Like Ideals Comfort Discover Celebration Quite Arts Sustain Nourish Moment Connecting Larger Exquisite
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. Horace Mann
Time You Money Borrow Clear Well His Person May Dishonesty Act Keeping Appointment
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess. John W. Gardner
Problem Better Values Faithful Our Those Find Profess
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them. Ken Robinson
Best You Creativity People Way Out Someone Give Environment Encourage Curiosity Get Just Them Create
The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity. Maria Montessori
Confidence Soul Dignity Ways Religious Oneself Noble Almost Knowing Make How Mankind Useful Help Many Fills Consciousness
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her. Maria Montessori
Education Wisdom Best Nature World Every Aid Ought Recognize Direct Perfect Never He Part Because Fitted Transform Which Us Each Utilize Each One Her Things Adapted
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. Mary Ellen Chase
Saying Good Thoughts Father Own Out Given Only He Sake Labor Decent Straightened Manual Manual Labor
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. Mary McLeod Bethune
Time History Whatever Unprecedented Given Share Development Glory Womanhood Length Race Full Belongs
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. Michael Pollan
Food Complicated Plants Too Much Healthy Too Incredibly Eat More More Or Less Supposedly Mostly Answer Question Short Order Much Confusing Should Less Humans
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