"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions."

-- Pierre Charron

#Pain Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“The dose makes the poison.”
“No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen do not, and most assuredly taxpayers do not.”
“Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the field of logic, and that ever correct inference proceeds in accordance with its laws.”

Source : "Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences". Book by Alfred Tarski, transl. by Olaf Helmer, pp. 108-110, 1941/2013.
“Channel your energy. Focus.”

Source : Carl Lewis, Jeffrey Marx (1992). “Inside track: my professional life in amateur track and field”, Fireside
“I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.”
“It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.”
“I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.”
“I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.”

Source : Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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