"The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasonsâ€“that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."

-- Aldous Huxley

#Philosophy Quotes #Believe Quotes #Zippers Quotes

“When you go up in the ranking, for sure you have more friends.”

Source : "US Open 2014 – Stan Wawrinka: 'I have no problem with him. What's happen on the tennis courts, you have to keep it there'". Interview, www.ubitennis.net. September 2, 2014.
“I learned the hula, so now I know how to shake my booty Hawaiian style.”
“Clive [Davis] tried to tell me that saying certain words in a song- or as he says, â€˜putting some balls into it'- isn't bad, it's just strong emotion. Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.”
“I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry. "That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible." "Did the psychic think so?”
“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”

Source : On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue 2
“I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.”
“It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.”

Source : Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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