"Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces."

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Source : Source: www.popsugar.com

John Ruskin

#Flower Quotes #Men Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.”
“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”
“Speak not through the positive mind or the negative mind, but from the neutral mind.”
“Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.”
“No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues.”

Source : Barbara Seranella (2001). “Unfinished Business: A Munch Mancini Crime Novel”, p.177, Simon and Schuster
“My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.”
“Personally, I just tease people a lot.”

Source : "Chaske Spencer, Alex Meraz and Julia Jones Press Conference the Twilight Saga: Eclipse". Press Conference, collider.com. June 22, 2010.

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