A. J. Jacobs Quotes
I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
A. J. Jacobs
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I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
Ian Somerhalder
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
Victor Pinchuk
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
Earle Combs
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
Bat for Lashes
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
Fatema Mernissi
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There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.
Hippocrates
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It's hard to explain how well he's played. He just keeps going. I hope he can keep it up.
Bobby Petrino
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Xenophanes
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Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.
Blaise Pascal
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The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
Venus Williams
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
A. J. Jacobs