"The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries."

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Source : 1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.8.

Kenneth Grahame

#Morning Quotes #Cat Quotes #Winter Quotes

“If seasteads advance blue-energy technologies, they'll create blue jobs. Millions of poor people living under exploitive governments are looking for a better choice. Seasteads won't attract them without offering them better options.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Tell me Jesse, does she sigh when you kiss her too”
“Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not,”
“I've been driving since I was 19 years old.”

Source : "Kathleen Wynne has some tough decisions ahead" by Christina Blizzard, ottawasun.com. January 30, 2013.
“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified â€” how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really donâ€™t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.”

Source : "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1999.
“In particular, recently Belgium has banned the sale of a cellphone to a 7-year-old. Turkey has banned ads and advertising to children. So has France for children under 12. India has bans in certain areas. In Bangalore, you cannot sell a cellphone to someone younger than 16. So in different parts of the world, they've taken different steps.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If ***** is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?”
“If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.”

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