It was basketball that really got me into (high jumping). I still played basketball even after I really got into high jumping, but more than one sport didn't hurt me in the high jump, that's for sure.
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight.
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There are some things, my dear Fisher, which do not bear much looking into. You undoubtedly have heard of the Siberian goat herder who tried t...
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.
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. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
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Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ...
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...I never thought of anything but a long full life with my love, but a heavy foreboding hit me about two years into this planned bliss, when ...
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Who wants always to look at a cafe or an altar or an oak tree with the first innocence and the limited understanding of a naive lovesick girl,...
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There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culin...
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When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.
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Our family talked a lot at table, and only two subjects were taboo: politics and personal troubles. The first was sternly avoided because Fath...
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The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.
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When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and it is all one.
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Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I f...
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
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We've been very focused on curing brain cancer, which we now do in about 68 percent of the kids,
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A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects.
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Instant gratification takes too long.
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A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
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The use of tamoxifen can prevent breast cancer in patients who have no evidence of breast cancer but are at high risk of getting it.
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
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