"I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils... I didn't start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Believe Quotes #Reading Quotes #Men Quotes

“The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example”
“If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting”
“Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it.”

Source : "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". Pp. 369-370. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.
“No one can do in the octagon what I can do. That 'Showtime Knee' - I never even practiced that once.”
“So my wife said she read this article in a magazine and she said: "You know, maybe you're suffering from premature ejaculation." Yeah, does it look like I'm suffering? Those aren't tears on your belly.”

Source : "Robert Schimmel: Unprotected". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1999.
“Not writing at all leads to nothing.”
“Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.”
“If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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