"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."

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Charles Lyell

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“Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.37, New Directions Publishing
“Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.”
“A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.”
“Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come...”
“A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.”
“Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”

Source : Bill Maher (2003). “When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism”, New Millenium
“The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.”
“in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.”

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