"A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room."

-- Per Petterson

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“I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.”
“The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?”
“During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.”
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.”
“That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.”
“At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.”
“I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.”
“SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.”

Source : Mark Akenside, “Hymn To Science”

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