"Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach."

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Source : Athenaeus (1854). “The Deipnosophists Or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : in Three Volumes”, p.439

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“Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.”
“I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.”
“I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.”
“When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.”
“The soul has many motions, body one.”
“I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.”
“From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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