"Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased."

-- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

#Hate Quotes #Fire Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.”
“Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.”
“I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.”
“It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.”
“I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.”
“Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.”

Source : Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”
“The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.”

Source : "Sunset Salvo" by John Tukey in The American Statistician, Volume 40, No. 1 (pp. 72-76), www.jstor.org. February 1986.

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