"Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside"

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Source : Justin Somper (2010). “Vampirates: Tide of Terror”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

Justin Somper

#Secret Quotes #Way Quotes #Eating Quotes

“A new report says that dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with almost 98 percent accuracy. The report also finds that cats can sniff it out with 100 percent accuracy but they prefer to watch you die.”
“G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.”

Source : "In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.
“You cannot lecture another people about what you think is right or wrong based on your value system unless you're willing to accept others imposing their value system on you.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of us all.”

Source : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”
“Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.”
“You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.”
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
“There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.”

Source : Sidney Lumet (2010). “Making Movies”, p.47, Vintage

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