"If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?"

-- Calvin Trillin

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“One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it's a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster.”
“No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”
“Have I ever told you how sexy your brain is?" "Finally! A man who wants me for my brain." "I want all of you. Each individual part and the sum of them all. I want you for everything you are and everything you will ever be. I will never have enough of you, because there's no such thing." He stared right into my eyes, and I couldn't have looked away if I'd wanted to. I was trapped, and never in my life had I been so happy to be caught. "I will never let you go again.”
“To rally every black sheep is my goal.”

Source : "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.”
“There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.”
“A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.”
“I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.”

Source : "Secrets and lives" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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