"There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal."

-- Karl Kraus

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!”
“They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.”
“I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.”
“It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.”
“From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed... the principle of repetition!”

Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp
“The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality”
“...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.”

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