"It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb."

-- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

#Men Quotes #Brain Quotes #Salmon Quotes

“Besides, the only thing you can control in life is your wardrobe. Cars break down when you least expect it. Boats eat money and gas. Your house, your mate, your friends, your family, even your career, are beyond your control. However, you're in total command of what you put on your back each morning.”
“No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.”

Source : "New millennium, old crime: those sanctions against Iraq" by Alexander Cockburn, freepress.org. January 12, 2000.
“True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person-the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments-is the true measure of lasting greatness.”
“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

Source : Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub
“If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.”
“Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.”
“One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.”

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