"It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds."

-- Noel-Antoine Pluche

#Mother Quotes #Mean Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.”
“Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.”
“I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?”
“No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.”
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.”
“Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle .”

Source : "Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict". Book edited by Tim Allen and John Eade (p. 41), June 30, 1999.
“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.”

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