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For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and
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“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― The Man in the Mist
― The Man in the Mist
“He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.”
― Einstein: His Life and Universe
― Einstein: His Life and Universe
“I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare -- or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad -- who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.”
― My Man Jeeves
― My Man Jeeves
“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Executive Power
― Executive Power
“...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:
"He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.”
― My Man Jeeves
"He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.”
― My Man Jeeves
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