"Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function."

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Caleb Carr

#New York Quotes #Charity Quotes #Killers Quotes

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
“Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.”

Source : Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”

Source : Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay (1978). “The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay”, Viking Adult
“When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.”
“I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.”

Source : "Mother nature (part one)" by Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.
“True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 10), 1930.
“If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.”
“Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.”

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