"Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value."

-- Douglas Coupland

#Mean Quotes #Brain Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.”
“You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.”
“One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
“Other problems confront women in power. One is fine but two's a crowd seems to be an unspoken rule when the one wears a skirt. And those in authority have found ways to reward women for excluding others of their kind.”
“Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.”
“In the Year 2000 men will finally discover that the reason women go to the bathroom in pairs... is to make out.”
“Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy”
“To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”

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