"We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?"

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Horse Quotes #Cancer Quotes #Years Quotes

“When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess.”
“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and youâ€™re like an immigrant to your own world. You donâ€™t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”
“Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.”
“I love Christmas! I'm not religious, but I love the trappings of the season. I love the decorations, and the music, and Santa, and the festive food, and the cinnamon- and vanilla-infused aromas.”
“Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.”
“I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.”
“The worst loss you've ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.”
“Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.”

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