"Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly."

-- Lin Yutang

#Dog Quotes #Winter Quotes #Men Quotes

“I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.”
“That is the good stuff that comes into our life and it's based on the good stuff that goes out of our life!”
“The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and the resulting ratios in the three age groups in which a large number of patients were interviewed (ages 45 to 74) are averaged, the relative risks become 6, 19, 26, 49, and 65 when the number of cigarettes smoked a day are 3, 10, 20, 35, and, say, 60-that is, the mid-points of each smoking group. In other words, on the admittedly speculative assumptions we have made, the risk seems to vary in approximately simple proportion with the amount smoked.”
“Why is Anthony Amowitz using his pimp smile on you?â€ â€œYouâ€™re only calling him a pimp because heâ€™s here. At Marcieâ€™s.â€ â€œYeah, so?â€ â€œHeâ€™s being nice.â€ I elbowed her. â€œSmile back.â€ â€œBeing nice? Heâ€™s being horny.”
“When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.”
“I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.”
“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”
“When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.”

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