"The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."

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Source : David Hume, Richard H. Popkin (1998). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)”, p.100, Hackett Publishing

#Life Quotes #Science Quotes #Men Quotes

“I have a plot, but not much happens.”
“Don't expect to be paid a dollar an hour for your working hours when you then use your leisure hours as though they were not worth five cents a dozen.”
“I always get to eat what I want because if I don't, I go insane.”
“I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.”
“I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine...”
“When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.”
“God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.”
“We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.”

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