"No man can be wise on an empty stomach."

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Source : George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.71

#Wise Quotes #Men Quotes #Empty Quotes

“Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.”
“There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.”
“What is most important almost always involves the people around us.”
“Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff”
“Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.”
“The last few years have been pretty hectic.”
“Age is not the determining factor in health.”
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June”

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