"Most hard-boiled people are half-baked."

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Wilson Mizner

#People Quotes #Half Quotes

“Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.”
“Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.”
“We Canadians need, as a country, to be much more present globally than we have been today.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.”
“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
“Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.”

Source : C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.180, Penguin UK
“If you think you can just go out and ask all the doctors in the world about what the did to all the patients and you think we can connect that into something useful, go talk to someone who has done that because we can't.”
“The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.”

Source : "The Range of Reason". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. 137), 1952.

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