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For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.


Mary Schmich

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Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you...
MARY SCHMICH Time only blunts the pain of loss. It doesn’t erase it.
GAIL HONEYMAN The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.
HATEF MOKHTAR The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of...
YE XIAOWEN Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU For over 20 years, I have been saying that Chicago is by far one of the greatest food cities in the ...
CHARLIE TROTTER Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAG Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
HIPPOCRATES Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically ...
MASANOBU FUKUOKA Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON The way doctors are doling out pain medicine, I would tell any mother or father that when it comes t...
ANNA SHEA One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Diet food is not a meal its a medicine.
AMIT KALANTRI With innovative programs like Nourish for Knowledge and partnerships with organizations like the Gre...
ARNE DUNCAN May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The songs of separation
Are not always full of pain
Often they talk of the fondness
...
NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA Was I the only one who became unsettled and swoonish at the sight of a large, inverted carcass hangi...
HARRISON SCOTT KEY Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Most people have experienced back pain at some point in their lives. Sometimes the pain goes away in...
KAREN SHERMAN 'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breat...
CHRIS PAVONE Pain is inevitable, yet suffering is optional. It is our heart connections that make all the differe...
ALARIC HUTCHINSON I don't like taking pain medicine, so I was willing to try anything.
BILL MCFADDEN Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue ...
CHARLES DUHIGG Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.
DAVID PERLMUTTER I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON We need food, fuel, medicine and schools.
ABDUL HAQ Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine f...
LUTHER BURBANK The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the sh...
RICK RIORDAN There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
KAJAL AGGARWAL Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digest...
CHANAKYA I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still ...
MATT WALSH Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, g...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing it...
G.K. CHESTERTON Food and medicine are not two different things: the are the front and back of one body.
MASANOBU FUKUOKA The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT Eat well, eat right, make your food your medicine
SOTONYE ANGA She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Don’t go for good or better; the best is yours; go for it.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We need food, we need water, we need medicine.
ABDUL QAYYUM My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.
GOTTFRIED BENN You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN There are parts of a woman’s heart that are reserved for certain types of love. Experiencing the l...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN endure the pain of the present to make tomorrow better.
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.
GARY WASHBURN Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or j...
ERYKAH BADU You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it'...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID We concentrate so much on anniversaries and birthdays that you forget it's the Tuesday that'...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these word...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID When you are making an album, it is about the purpose - you are creating both a concept and vibe, th...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID My mom and my dad was the best example of unconditional love I could see as a kid. I've known it...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID A connection should be natural. Just be yourself, and you will find someone who likes you for exactl...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID On my block, we grew up like family. Summer times, man, psshh, we in the back in the alley or in the...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID I just believe in giving people their roses while they're living. That's my new thing - peri...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Style is a big part of my life. I used to work in retail before I was an artist; a lot of people did...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID I definitely have a relationship with God for myself, and yes I grew up that way, and I choose to ke...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID What's love without a soundtrack, you know?
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Chicago taught me when to talk, taught me when to shut up, taught me when to stay, taught me when to...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID There's something about real music, dawg. It comes to you; you don't have to go to it.
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Have you seen the oddest couple in the world, to your eyes, walking down the street? That means ther...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID The most important and common thing is to be able to connect with your fans. If you can't live l...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID It's crazy all the dreams you have about what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when yo...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really re...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, A...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID My whole childhood was church. But as an adult, I've grown to understand my relationship with Go...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID I love loyalty, and I love paying back my end of loyalty, you know what I'm saying? I love makin...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Falling in love in our generation just isn't as popular as it used to be.
BJ THE CHICAGO KID In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like no...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Living my life socially means there is a swagger to how I dress, walk; it's not about being '...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everyth...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Just to be a part of something that can travel beyond and reach the lives of people and help them th...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. See food as medicine eighty per cent of the time. The other twenty per cent of the time you can indu...
JASON COOK Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The ...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever ...
AL PACINO It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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MARY RENAULT Watching my parents I've learnt a lesson many do not recognize. True love is not signaled by romanti...
MARY KATE The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace ...
MARY CONNEALY Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
MARY HIRSCH Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
MARY MACCRACKEN I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.
MARY CHASE Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our own organs, the most precious and amazing th...
MARY ROACH