"Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without."

-- Alain de Botton

#Smell Quotes #People Quotes #Ignored Quotes

“Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.”
“He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar.”
“I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.”
“I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.”

Source : "About A Boy's David Walton explains how Fired Up! won the L.A. Lakers a championship". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. February 25, 2014.
“Deliberate choices are the only sacred things in the universe. Everything else is just hydrogen.”

Source : James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.353, Open Road Media
“You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.”
“Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.”
“European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.”

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