"What came first the chicken or the dickhead?"

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Source : "Song: "Pretty Visitors" ("Hamburg")". 2009.

Alex Turner

#Firsts Quotes #Chickens Quotes

“I ask and wish not to appear More beauteous, rich or gay: Lord, make me wiser every year, And better every day.”

Source : Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.456, Cosimo, Inc.
“Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empÃ¢echer", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisÃ©ration", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idÃ©es", Fr.) - habit.”
“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.”
“I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.”
“I live in one of the coastal cities in Southern California, and every so often I like to take a walk down the boardwalk in Venice during the weekends when it is abuzz with lively activity.”

Source : "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.
“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.”
“Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.”

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