Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Rex Stout's Popular Quotes

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

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I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, p…

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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

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As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

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Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

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