"Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else."

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Source : "Itch of Wisdom". Book by Mikhail Turovsky, 1986.

Mikhail Turovsky

“There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.”
“The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone.”
“I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!”
“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
“Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.”
“A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.”
“Basically what my mom told me - I was extremely shy, I didn't have any girlfriends 'til I was 21 - my mom would see me suffering and tell me, "Just focus on your school, study very hard, and some day you will be successful and you can use all the resources that you have to a dating advantage." Ultimately, I took that advice and turned it into dating sites.”

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