Quotes
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

"For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by means of comparison. That which is absolutely incomparable is wholly incomprehensible. God is the only example that we could give here. He cannot be comprehended, because he cannot be compared. But all which is susceptible of comparison, everything that we can perceive by different aspects, all that we can consider relatively, can always be judged according to our knowledge."

-- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

#Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.”
“We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2008). “The Sorrows of an American: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan
“The Affordable Care Act is a huge problem. [Repealing the ACA is] going to have huge implications. We have millennials that live in Boston that are on their parents' health insurance. The businesses have hired them and have been able to hire more people because they have been able to be on their own health insurance. We have seniors in our city who have preexisting conditions, or something called a "donut hole," which is a prescription drug [gap] in Medicare. Whatever changes they make could have detrimental effects on people's health care, but also on the economy.”
“Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.”
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.139, Pan Macmillan
“Felt my heartbeat falter, hesitate, then stumble awkwardly forward, tripping on the next beat, then the next, faster and faster until each one tumbled into the other like the drumroll of dominoes crashing together. Funny how time stands still when death is imminent.”
“When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2007). “The Diary of a Chambermaid”, Harper Collins
“When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'”

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