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Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment. ↗

— Drew Carey

#health #weight-loss #food

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. ↗

— Anacharsis

#easily #hold #laws #like #only

A great man will experience more failures than successes. If we lived for the successes, we would have all killed ourselves by now. ↗

— Andrew Sturm

#life-lessons #project #experience

Do not give hope where there is none. Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some. ↗

— Rosen Topuzov

#happiness #learning #life #success #wisdom

The only reason for this treatment was that they were Jews. ↗

— Muriel Knox Doherty

#holocaust #jews #wwii #experience

Mankind will experience a knowledge shock when being forced by need to use new science. ↗

— Toba Beta

#new-science #experience

The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has just that character of being common, yet individual, that belongs to aesthetic experiences. Some are sensitive to the sight, and the rest are not; to some of them it seems to convey something -- to others it is just a thing, a toadstool or what you will. ↗

— Susanne K. Langer

#experience

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency. ↗

— William Shatner

#better #better idea #frequency #got #happens

In her experience people had worries or they had tons of money, not both. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#experience

No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things -- the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold -- were false to you. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#experience