"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."

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Edmund Burke

#Mind Quotes #Body Quotes #Facts Quotes

“With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.”
“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
“Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.”
“Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class.”
“Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.”
“I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.”
“Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.”
“My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises”

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