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“Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.”
― James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth

“a 2011 survey by Food Safety News showed that 75 percent of honey on store shelves had no pollen in it. All honey has at least a few grains of pollen that remain in it after normal straining, and that pollen is the only definitive way to determine country and even region of origin. A complete lack of pollen indicates one of two things: The jar has no honey in it at all, or the honey has been ultrafiltered by heating and forcing the honey through tiny filters to remove all of the pollen.”
― Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

“A man is known by the company he keeps”
― Aesop

“Education in cruelty and fear is bad, but no other kind can be given by those who are themselves the slaves of these passions.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“External discipline is the only road to happiness for those unfortunates whose self-absorption is too profound to be cured in any other way.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Loss of zest in civilized society is very largely due to the restrictions upon liberty which are essential to our way of life.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness