"The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled."

-- Rand Beers

#Running Quotes #Navy Quotes #Abu Ghraib Quotes

“The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't be easy till I have tried it," as if an outside force were driving him. He enjoyed experimenting much more than work which only entailed reasoning, and when he was engaged on one of his books which required argument and the marshalling of facts, he felt experimental work to be a rest or holiday.”

Source : Sir Francis Darwin, Charles Darwin (1925). “The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter”
“If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.”
“When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.”

Source : "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.
“Rare is he who will concede genius.”
“Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.27, Hampton Roads Publishing
“Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.”

Source : "An A-Z of the piano: Alfred Brendel's notes from the concert hall" by Alfred Brendel, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2013.
“Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.”

Source : "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.
“I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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