"Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be."

-- Ian Hacking

#Race Quotes #Realising Quotes #Humans Quotes

“If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.”
“We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.”
“Only a foolish woman would allow her man to earn his living as a moving target.”
“Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.”
“In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.”

Source : Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.262, Vintage
“What's it all about Alfie, is it just the moment we live?”
“The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. Â They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is the greedy businessman who raises prices or the selfish laborer who demands higher wages or the unworthy farmer who demands too much for his crop or the wealthy foreigner who bids up our prices. Â They do not realize that these groups also are victimized by a monetary system which is constantly being eroded in value by and through the Federal Reserve System.”
“Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.”

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