"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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“The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man did, to spend long centuries on earth. Awaiting their devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given - 'sent' for man's use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it!”

Source : "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.
“It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.”
“I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.”
“It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.”
“Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred is the most malignant poison that can afflict the mind. It freezes up the fount of inspiration and chills the higher faculties of the soul.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1908). “Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America”
“If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.”
“Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.”
“My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the rehearsals. You know what I'm saying, it was the typical story of a son looking up to his dad. So the years that my father was around, my father was my biggest influence.”

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