"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television."

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Source : "A Long Line of Cells: Collected Essays".

Lewis Thomas

#Sarcastic Quotes #Sarcasm Quotes

“I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.”
“I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.”
“I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.”

Source : 1982 Destination Biafra.
“It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.”
“I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.”
“I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Growth is the mantra of our society because the economy can't remain healthy without growth.Impregnable monopolies aside (and these are few), profits are both the hallmark of capitalism and its Achilles heel, for no business can permanently maintain its prices much above its costs. There is only one way in which profits can be perpetuated; a business-or an entire economy-must grow.”
“The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter”

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