Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
HIPPOCRATESMankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
More Jacques-Yves Cousteau Quotes
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
LEONARDO DA VINCI -
I am not a BART regular but have taken it probably five times to and from the city with some of my teammates. Nice to just hop on the train and enjoy some of the views of the Bay Area while I’m out.
STEPHEN CURRY -
To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.
JOSEPH STALIN -
No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
DEMI LOVATO -
I never do any magic. You just can’t go around walking, “Ta-da!” “Ta-da!” “Ta-da!” The only time I can say it is when I do something really stupid or surprising.
DAVE ATTELL -
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
ERIC HOFFER -
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
QUINTILIAN -
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUS -
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
COLIN POWELL -
Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
BOB HOPE -
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God’s holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI -
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESE -
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
JOHN DRYDEN






