"We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

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“If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.”
“I had four children. And my youngest when we started was like, oh, gosh, 2 or a little less. And sometimes my kids would say to me, you know, how come you don't scream at those kids on television like you do us?”

Source : "Not My Job: Brady Bunch's Florence Henderson Gets Quizzed On Weird Science". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Bill Kurtis and Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 18, 2015.
“A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.”
“People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.”
“I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”
“To shut your eyes is to travel.”
“I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.”
“In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.”

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