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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#called #inferiority #origin #otherwise #sense

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#absolutely free #every #feeling #free #life

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#answer #chain #circumstances #complicated #find

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?' ↗

— Gary Ross

#after #creates #else #first #games

I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get. ↗

— Johnny Thunders

#cereal #close #eat #get #i

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#avoid #confidence #desire #experimental #goes

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#bird #enable #facts #fly #man

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #deeper #digestive #discovery #expected

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#man #methods #natural #natural science #objective

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil? ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#fund #idea #machine #manufacture #ownership