"...claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Thinking Quotes #Monkeys Quotes #Dirt Quotes

“In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.”
“I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.”

Source : "Today" with John Humphrys, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.
“Sometimes I look at my own movies”
“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
“Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius....”
“I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring”
“Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives,”
“A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.”

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