“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”― William Blake

Did you know that "Nose" is a winetaster's term for both aroma and bouquet. To "Nose" a wine is to smell it.

“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.” ― W.H. Auden

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“Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Foolish people always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.” ― J. P. Vinluca, Aiko and the Dragon

“If you say that you never lie in life,-you honestly insult my intelligence.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

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“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.” ― Voltaire

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“If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy. ” ― Alvin Toffler

Vegan

“A verb is something Good to eat.”~V.Vegan

Chomsky

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.” ― Noam Chomsky

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“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.” ― William Faulkner, Mosquitoes

Hitchens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqITwSOXX2g&feature=related

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBBDRzjYl8

“The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.”
― George Santayana

“May the fleas and crabs of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch”― Keisha Keenleyside

“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.”― Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus

“The only source of knowledge is experience”~ Albert Einstein

“First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.” ― Edward Albee, The Zoo Story and Other Plays

“The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.” ― Albert Camus

Epictetus

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” ― Epictetus

“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”― Hunter S. Thompson

“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?”― Jess C. Scott, I'm Pretty -yeah u dumb ass?