"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."

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Source : "Comic Sections". Book by Desmond MacHale, 1993.

David Hilbert

#Stupid Quotes #Men Quotes #Astrology Quotes

“Sometimes, with two strikes and two outs, I step off the mound. People are yelling, they're yelling really loud. I step off because I want to feel it. You've got all that adrenaline going, you've got that rush. People think I'm thinking about something, but I'm just trying to listen to everyone and feed off it.”
“He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman”
“Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.”
“I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.”
“It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.”
“It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.”

Source : Emma Bull (2004). “War for the Oaks: A Novel”, p.251, Macmillan
“The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.”
“When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.”

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