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“One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.”
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“The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.”
Source : Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818). “Zoonomia; Or The Laws of Organic Life”, p.112
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“If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?”
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“We don't need people who can spit back facts. We've got Google.”
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“Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.”
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“A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.”
Source : John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”
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“It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.”
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“Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com
