"The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own."

-- Thomas Friedman

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“Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.”
“Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.”

Source : Stanley Milgram (1992). “The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
“Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.”
“I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me...”
“I'd like to get into some sort of workout regimen so I can properly be healthy and exercise like a normal human being. I seem to not do that... ever.”

Source : "We Are So Crushing on Dylan O'Brien, and You Will Be Too!". Interview with Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. October 19, 2012.
“The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394
“I actually feel, in a lot of ways, that I'm in better shape than I was when I was 30.”

Source : "Tom Bergeron: Emmy Winner On How He’s Stayed Sane In Hollywood". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.
“In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.”

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