"I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflÃ©s."

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Source : "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen". Book by Harold McGee, March 20, 2007.

Nicholas Kurti

#Thinking Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.”

Source : Liu Zongyuan, “River Snow”
“Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For most people, when they saw a swimming pool, they thought, â€˜Let's take a swim.' But I thought, â€˜Let's ride it.' When they saw the curb or a street, they would think about driving on it. I would think about the texture. I slowly developed the ability to look at the world through totally different means.”
“I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper and more significant than her financial power.”
“Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.”
“The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.”
“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd
“In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.”

Source : "Bodice ripper" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2005.
“When you love someone, you can't lie to them. It hurts to much. It's a deception that goes too deep.”

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