"Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English."

--

Alfred de Musset

“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”
“How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”
“To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.”
“Pain pushes until vision pulls.”
“In my lame pescetarian defense, it's very hard to be a girl and say you won't eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds and you're anorexic. Accept them and you're on the Atkins. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and you're bulimic. Best to keep perfectly still and bring an IV of fluids with you to dinner.”
“I'm not gonna box Ruiz...I don't box, I knock holes through people. I'm gonna cut Ruiz up. I'm gonna butcher him. He ain't gonna last five rounds. Either he winds up on the canvas or in the hospital. It's his choice.”
“The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.”

Source : Howard Fast (1978). “The immigrants”, G K Hall & Co
“When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three â€˜E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.”

Source : Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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