"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."

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Source : "Political Insults: Cheap Shots or Do They Play an Important Role in American Politics?" by Rich Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2014.

Thomas Reed

#Sarcastic Quotes #Mouths Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend”
“There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.”
“God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.”
“Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses...”
“All of us have to deal with death at one time or another, but to have in one's heart a solid conviction concerning the reality of eternal life is to bring a sense of peace in an hour of tragedy that can come from no other source under the heavens”
“Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
“The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures.”
“The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.”

Source : Wilhelm Wundt (2014). “Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology (Psychology Revivals)”, p.363, Routledge

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