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Verily, affluence brings anxiety!
... patients seldom run amuck at mealtime.
Some people suffer in silence louder than others.
A healthy body attends to the pain of the weakest part.
"Positive mental attitude" is totally hardcore. It's DIY.
I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.
I think everybody who puts on a uniform for their country is a hero.
I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.
Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.
The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.
Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.
I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.
I've always been a draw-er, all throughout elementary school I was the "kid who draws".
... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.
... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.
I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.
I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.
The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates.
If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.
I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done.
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.
I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.
... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.
I want to be the person whose art is accessible, who someone could look at and say "That's doesn't look so hard, I could do that."
It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people think are well drawn
advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.
All SEALS in my mind are equally elite. It doesn't matter if you're SEAL Team Two, One, Six, 10, it doesn't matter. All SEALS are equally elite.
do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.
Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue.
I used to think that a guy telling me I'm "not like other girls" was a compliment and I've now flipped to seeing that for the back-handed compliment that it is.
The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position.
Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!
the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.
Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.
we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.
To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interests; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.
The way I grew up, I had a lot of personal issues with art. It's an individual thing, but I also think it's kind of Midwestern: You do your thing, but you don't talk about it. You make sure it's not such a big deal, and keep it very low-key.
I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.
I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.'
Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it.
In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough to say that it is good, often enough and sufficiently loudly. The keenest competition is not in the making of things but in the advertising of them!
I think the Internet gives too much for a young artist to compare themselves too. I'm not sure that "notes" or "likes" are what we should be aspiring to, but the Internet means something different to me because I've always been primarily interested in publishing physical books.
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.
To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.