"We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another."

-- Peter De Vries

#Brain Quotes #Ears Quotes #Devices Quotes

“What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.”
“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.”
“Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…”, p.84, e-artnow
“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.”
“I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.”
“Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is.”

Source : Source: respect-mag.com
“I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.”
“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”

Source : Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.300, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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