"She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul."

-- Guy de Maupassant

#Men Quotes #Soul Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Poetry calls into question what it means to be human”
“Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 10, 2013
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
“Walk your dogs on the beach that's my luxury. The food's not so good in West Palm, but you can't have it all.”
“Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.41
“A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the raw number of computations they can do per second. But that seems completely irrelevant. We don't know how the brain is organized, how it does what it does.”
“Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.”
“Life is a lot like surfingâ€¦ When you get caught in the impact zone, youâ€™ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.”

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