"A cat is a responsibility after all. And feeding and keeping and caring about a stupid fat cat isn't much, isn't much in the entirety of what counts for being a person and the huge range of what people do,but it is something. It is something and it's something that's warm and that I still have."

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Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.99, Canongate Books

Steven Hall

#Stupid Quotes #Cat Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
“LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, on with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.”
“Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.”
“We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.”

Source : "Lucas Papademos sworn in as Greece's prime minister" by Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2011.
“Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...”

Source : Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.256, Penguin
“I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.”
“Bollywood has got this rare quality where it dances, but it still has a depth of a sad song at the same time. It's really strange. They kind of manage to do two things at once. We do a ballad, or a dance song, and it's very difficult. They kind of mix those two things together. It's pretty impressive, beautiful music.”
“To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it.”

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