"If we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians."

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Source : Ernest Howard Crosby (1904). “Tolstoy and His Message”

Ernest Howard Crosby

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“My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.”
“Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.”
“I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand?”
“When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.”
“As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.”
“Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires”
“I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.”
“People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead. It is actually worth the trouble to identify the invalid forms of argument, and to learn their names. Not only can you then avoid them yourself; you can also identify them in opponents. If you call your opponent's errors by their Latin names, you can make it look as though he or she is suffering from a rare tropical disease.”

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