"So we have giant super-smart vipers who slithered in here, killed our people, opened the vault, stole something from it, and slithered out, undetected?â€ â€œAppears so.â€ â€œOkay. Just wanted to make sure it wasnâ€™t something dangerous."

-- Ilona Andrews

#Smart Quotes #People Quotes #Vipers Quotes

“The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.”

Source : "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.
“a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.”
“I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.”
“I'm not going to deny the fact that I've tried pot. I hated it.”
“Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.”

Source : John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.3
“The world needs you. It needs that special thing you've been dreaming about since you were little.”
“I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.”
“But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.”

Source : Apuleius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Apuleius (Illustrated)”, p.668, Delphi Classics

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