"[â€¦] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia [â€¦]"

-- Sebastian Horsley

#Abortion Quotes #Misery Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.”

Source : Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis”, p.281
“About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom”
“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.”
“America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies.”
“I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.”

Source : "How we all lose" by Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. October 26, 2012.

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