"The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with."

-- Horace

#Depressing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Excess Quotes

“Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds”
“I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to make sure that the flicker of movement we have thus managed in space stays sufficiently kindled so that the people of the 21st century can build upon and extend the human abode from Earth to the cosmos beyond.”
“After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.”
“I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.”
“When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'”

Source : "'Love Story' Actress Ali McGraw: I Should Have Sought Alimony". www.foxnews.com. January 06, 2012.
“The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.”

Source : Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education
“People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours.”
“The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.”

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