"The fire at Lipara, Xenophanes says, ceased once for sixteen years, and came back in the seventeenth. And he says that the lavastream from Aetna is neither of the nature of fire, nor is it continuous, but it appears at intervals of many years."

-- Aristotle

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“If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?”
“I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.”
“The truth is that I am not a frump... I just enjoy being laid back.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.”

Source : "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Sri Yukteswar Giri, 1946.
“As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.”
“Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.”

Source : 1984 Said to Nancy Reagan at a White House reception, 28 Sep.
“My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.”
“As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.”

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