"An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half."

-- Edith Hall

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“The popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy.”
“Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'”

Source : "Women's Tennis & the Williams Sisters: A Love Match?". "CNN Talkback Live", www.cnn.com. August 29, 2001.
“We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.”
“The sin against blood and race is the hereditary sin in this world and it brings disaster on every nation that commits it.”
“When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.”

Source : Bette Greene (2000). “Summer of my German soldier”
“After the kids are asleep you â€¦ well, you know. Whatever it is. You slip away for a night.”
“Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.”
“The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.”

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