"Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans â€” language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce."

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Source : Paul Bloom (2011). “How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like”, p.52, Random House

Paul Bloom

#Men Quotes #Animal Quotes #Sauce Quotes

“I'm not big with an audience; I get very nervous.”
“A saint belongs to all humanity.”
“Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.”
“Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.”
“Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.”
“Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
“Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.”
“I have a secret love of jazz.”

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