"A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?"

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Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

Jonathan Gottschall

#Boxing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.”
“The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.”

Source : D. E. Tarver, Musashi Miyamoto (2004). “The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi”, p.12, iUniverse
“Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.”
“A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to the aims of cinema. It is a degenerate and misguided attempt to destroy the real use of the film and cannot be accepted as coming within the true boundaries of the cinema.”

Source : Paul Rotha, Robert Kruger, Duncan J. Petrie (1999). “A Paul Rotha Reader”, p.60, University of Exeter Press
“We had a lot of luck this year and our guys took advantage. Wow. What a night.”
“I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.”
“The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, 1902.
“More than print and ink, a newspaper is a collection of fierce individualists who somehow manage to perform the astounding daily miracle of merging their own personalities under the discipline of the deadline and retain the flavor of their own minds in print.”

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