"A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading."

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Source : Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

Jeremy Collier

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“I got killed against Morimoto. I brought out white plates with food; I thought that was really nice. He brings out sculptures of ice, Noah's ark made of balsa wood that he carved at his restaurant downstairs, smoking trees ... When I saw that, I looked at my sous chef and I'm like, we're toast.”
“Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.”
“What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.”
“The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.”
“War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.”
“My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.”
“If you could eat portions of pine trees, you could eliminate corn in many ways.”
“The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.”

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