"But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?"

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Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

Charles Stuart Calverley

#Coffee Quotes #Berries Quotes #Used Quotes

“Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.”

Source : Freethought Today (unidentified article/page), April 2000.
“I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.”
“To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.”
“I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.”
“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.”
“The ways of Providence cannot be reasoned out by the finite mind ... I cannot fathom them, yet seeking to know them is the most satisfying thing in all the world.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “Jerusalem”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
“All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.”
“What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the needle would rise and rise and rise through the veins leading up to the heart and then the needle would STAB HER IN THE HEART and Roberta would DIE and it would be VERY PAINFUL this according to nurse mother a medical expert on Freaky Ways to Croak... The mother shouted that she knew several people who died from the Rising Stab of the Unfelt Needle or RSUN she has seen cases of it many times and not ONE PERSON HAS SURVIVED IT.”

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