"If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will."

-- Tom Lehrer

“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.”
“I think the best way to get a good night sleep is to work hard throughout the day. If you work hard and, of course, work out.”

Source : "The Man Who Led the Bin Laden Mission Teaches You How to Make Your Bed" by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. May 22, 2014.
“Some Native people suggest that one should test how cold the hands are by touching the thumb to the little finger of the same hand. As soon as you cannot carry out this exercise you are reaching a dangerous state of incapacity and you should immediately take steps to warm up.”
“To be really honest, I think if anybody did derive comfort from the fact that 'there's always someone worse off than yourself,' they'd have to be a pretty sad and sick individual. If I've sprained my wrist, I'm not made happier by the thought that someone somewhere has broken their leg!”
“When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.”

Source : Qiu Xiaolong (2003). “Death of a Red Heroine”, p.66, Soho Press
“A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.”
“The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.”
“You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.”

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