"I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?"

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Source : 1972 In Science, vol.176, p.966.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Lying Quotes #Home Quotes #Night Quotes

“The appeal for drugs has dwindled. Except for actual opium. If I could get real opium, I'd stir it in my hot coffee every morning. People keep giving me marijuana. I've got pouches in a drawer. I've been meaning to smoke a joint and watch Abbott and Costello Go to Mars. I planned to do this three months ago and I still haven't gotten around to it.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again.”
“I never know the right thing to say, especially during sex. After my first time, I said to the girl, 'That's it, I'm afraid'”
“We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.”
“Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.”

Source : "Aloe Blacc: '50 Cent put me off rapping'" by Tom Ayres, www.digitalspy.com. June 5, 2011.
“EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context”
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”

Source : "Die Fackel", no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in "Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry" by Thomas Szasz, (Ch. 8), 1970.
“We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.”

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