"Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?"

-- Robert Ardrey

#Men Quotes #Today Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Kinky sex involves the use of duck feathers. Perverted sex involves the whole duck.”
“Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a personâ€™s ability to learn a second language without an accent is limited. In fact, second languages learned after the critical period are not processed in the same part of the brain as is the native tongue.”

Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.52, Penguin
“I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!”
“They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds?”
“People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.”
“Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.”
“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
“Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.”

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