"Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Belief Quotes #Liquor Quotes #Restaurants Quotes

“The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.”
“In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.”
“Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.”
“A perspective that allows you to consistently make decisions based on the right set of criteria. Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome. Nothing I can be faced with that I won't grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.”

Source : "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“My goal ... not to go back to Rembrandt ... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.”
“We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.”

Source : Horace Marden Albright, Marston Bates (1962). “The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship”
“Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.”

Source : "Toronto International Film Festival 2002: An interview with Frederick Wiseman, director of The Last Letter". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. October 2, 2002.
“In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap...”

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