"If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair."

-- Thomas Nagel

#Believe Quotes #Despair Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.99, Bantam
“I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.”
“She spotted a lone dandelion,and it crossed her mind that a younger Luce would have pounced on it and then made a wish and blown. But this Luce's wishes felt too heavy for something so light.”
“By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways...our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself...'Are there things I'd like to change?'”
“I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.”
“Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.”
“We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.”

Source : George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.211, e-artnow sro
“I have loads of underwear, but only wear the bras because I never wear knickers.”

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