"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."

-- Bill Mauldin

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“Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.”
“Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.”
“If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.”
“We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.”

Source : Jill Lepore (2014). “The Secret History of Wonder Woman”, p.257, Vintage
“We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and ultimately wrecked Roman civilization. Our reliance - an almost religious reliance - upon the power of science and technology to forever ensure the progress of our society, might blind us to some very real problems which cannot be solved by science and technology.”
“We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.”

Source : "How Do Our Near-Wins Motivate Us To Keep Going?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 18, 2014.
“I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.”
“English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.”

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