"I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic."

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Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

James G. Frazer

#Men Quotes #Hair Quotes #Logic Quotes

“Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.”
“Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.”
“Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.”

Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
“He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had already been chosen for him, his only choice being whether or not to play his part with heart and courage. He ran because fate had placed him in a position of responsibility and he had accepted the burden. He ran because his self-respect required it. He ran because he loved his friends and this was the only thing he could do to end the madness that was killing and maiming them.”
“You want to know what scares people? Success.”
“One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.”

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“The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.”
“Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.”

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