"I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration."

-- Robert Burns

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“Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.110, Prometheus Books
“I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.”
“He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.”
“I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.”
“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”

Source : "Nobel Laureates, 1901-2000". Book by Alan Symons (p.1), 2000.
“You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.
“Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidney. I'm so tired. But when you're having dinner with your kids and your husband and someone says something funny or you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiess.”
“Thank you. It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things. I'm not allowed to have scissors any more. It's still pretty lengthy, but I've been threatening to shave half of it for the past week and nobody seems to believe me... I do it all myself though because I scream when I'm touched and that scares people.”

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