"When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was."

-- Ben Stein

#Smart Quotes #Father Quotes #Silly Quotes

“love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.”
“America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.”
“The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.”
“For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.”
“Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.”
“The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.”
“However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back.”

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