“Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table.”

— Jesse Ventura

Interview in Playboy (November 1999)

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American politician and former professional wrestler 1951

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“It is better to crush a gland instead of an oak.”

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Il vaut mieux écraser un gland plutôt qu'un chêne.
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“The brain is a gland of unity: the brain is one with the body.”

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“I have to explain that I'm not an anarchist – I have a pro-state gland.”

Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

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Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

“Sell the kids for food
weather changes moods
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Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)

“With respect to the function of the calciferous glands, it is probable that they primarily serve as organs of excretion, and secondarily as an aid to digestion.”

Charles Darwin book The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms

Source: The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881), Chapter 1: Habits of Worms, p. 49. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=64&itemID=F1357&viewtype=image

“All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday (1983), Ch. XXI, p. 214

“If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

“Overstimulation of the adrenal glands (with consequent exhaustion of the spirit) is the price of our incorporation within the male womb of the modern corporate society.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher

Source: The Passionate Life (1983), p. 101

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