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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ↗

— John Arbuthnot Fisher

#imbecility #moderation #violence #war

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#between #contemporary #descendants #differences #early

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life. ↗

— John Wooden

#fathers #inspiration #role-models #education

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#carbs #diet #eat #fast #fast food

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#changes #deal #expansion #federal #federal government

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it. ↗

— Tim Conway

#cleveland #falling #first #future #horses

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ↗

— Democritus

#greatest #greatest pleasures #moderation #pains #pleasures

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

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I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#anymore #anyone #anything #going #i