Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.

If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

A little backflip (backflips), but it's not part of Parkour, but i like doing this since i did gym.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

Most 'scientists' are bottle washers and button sorters.

There's something beautiful about working in the one place in the world where the world is present, like United Nations. Otherwise, one would have to go to each of these countries to negotiate.

The best performance advice I have ever been given was to "Know where your light is, onstage."