"The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone."

-- Nicolas Chamfort

#Friends Quotes #Real Quotes #Eye Quotes

“A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Colored men have only one - that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex.”
“All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.”

Source : Robert E. Lee (1904). “Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee”, p.132, Lulu.com
“Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.”
“I once heard someone doing a karaoke version of my song. That was pretty funny.”
“The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.”
“In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press
“Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.”
“To make magic credible on screen is always very difficult. The story is the most important thing. That is what should win. If sacrifices or compromises are made, it's usually for story. Story in magic is very, very important to me. That's what I've really championed through my career.”

Source : "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

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