Latest from the Salad Man

I haven't strictly speaking followed any diet or anything these past couple of weeks. Nonetheless, an average of one meal per day (or less) has been salad, usually with some ham and lots of Thousand Island dressing. It seems to be slowly but steadily working, as Tuesday morning, before flying off to England for a brief visit, I clocked in at 109,7 kg. Three kg till I'm back where I was in September 2011. And wither then? Persnaps 100 kg? Wheeeee!!!

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Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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When the sun comes up, I have morals again.

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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

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A new and better life?

Well, one can always dream. Anyway, I've started a more "green" diet now, and actually lost 4-5 pounds over the weekend eating mainly salad. Not an especially healthy one either; it was liberally sprinkled (= drowned) with dressing. But as long as it tastes good and does the job, imma keep stuffin face with it.

110.9 kg this morning... dis time it's fo' realz.

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Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.

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Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

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My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Mark Twain week...

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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