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Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. Jonathan Safran Foer

Food Culture Rational Habit Identity Craving

Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. Jose Rizal

Justice Injustice Virtue Weakest Foremost Nations While Races

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. Joseph Joubert

Best Anger Walk Long Temper Remedy Short

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. Karen Armstrong

Silence Solitude Lose Loner Like Without Gregarious

I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts. Kim Barnouin

Love Dreams Heart Desserts Lies General Having Bakery Baking Chef Becoming How How Much Pastry Little Much Cook Professional

In communism, we never had any freedom - of movement, of speech, of press. We didn't even make own decisions for our lives, our future. We were human robots. Lee Hyeon-seo

Future Freedom Communism Own Our Our Lives Press Never Had Make Robots Were Any Human Movement Decisions Even Lives Speech

I'm a staunch believer in enterprise, and I'm glad I live in a country where - I don't think some people understand this, but if I work hard, I get rewarded for it. Lewis Grizzard

Work People Work Hard Some People Country Live Think Enterprise Staunch Some Glad Understand Get Rewarded Where Hard Believer

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. Madame de Stael

Life Suffering Must Boredom Between Choose

Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely. Malorie Blackman

Creative People Sometimes Too Teenagers Some Entirely Fade Know Most Passionate Left Often Dynamic Spark Flicker Creative People

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it. Marian Keyes

Love Relationship You Words Think Others Peeling Some Only Small Small Thing Like Know Because Doing Truly Person Orange Measured Using Actions Ever Thing Amount Butterflies Flowers

Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense. Marilyn Ferguson

Good Prevail Water Doctors Sense Aim Our Consideration Spin Over Heads Policy Self-Serving Common Common Sense Public Agendas Public Good Public Policy Who Keep Designed Below

What older men and younger women have in common is they are both suffering from different insecurities. She is looking for someone to make her feel safe, and he is looking for someone who doesn't answer back and is a trophy. Mark Barrowcliffe

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. Mary Wollstonecraft

Life Blessing Will Independence Long Live Every Virtue Considered Though Secure Were Contracting Heath Wants Grand Barren Ever Basis

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior. Melody Beattie

Behavior Controlling Obsessed Him Another Affect Person Who Her

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear. Melody Beattie

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. Michael Musto

Truth Truth Is Exhausted Few Nothing Final Resort Telling Telling The Truth Threat Only Idea Alternative Been Years Up Very Options Deception Bribery Whole Last Last Few Years

Sin is more than turning our backs on God - it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives. Mike Yaconelli

Life God Adultery Living Our Backs Immorality Dreary More Sin Than Dishonesty Stale Much Turning Unimaginative Lives

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life. Mike Yaconelli

Life God Time Me You Bible Reality People Unfinished Thought My Life Meets Worst Possible Constantly He Stuff Look Mess Read Got Opposite Up Did Where Rid Showing Showing Up Lives

The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His Church. Mike Yaconelli

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera

Man Struggle Memory Power Forgetting Against

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