"The most savage people are also the ugliest."

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Source : Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.482

Mary Somerville

#People Quotes #Savages Quotes

“For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.”
“If I play one psychic, then I'm playing a psychic at least three or four more times.”

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“We've shared good (times) We've shared good fries We've shared good (beers) But never goodbyes... Till now Mind how you go, good buddy”
“I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's always a best friend and the woman has a best friend and they always antagonise each other and then they end up together at the end of the movie.”
“I like rules. Without them, we don't know what to break.”
“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.”

Source : "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 7-8), 1947.
“Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.”
“Everything seems impossible until you see success.”

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