"Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Reality Quotes #Desire Quotes #Disease Quotes

“Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."”
“But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.”

Source : Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1401, BookCaps Study Guides
“Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.”
“Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunaticâ€¦The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?”
“Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.”
“Working gets in the way of living.”
“I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.”

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