"We practically always excuse things when we understand them"

-- Mikhail Lermontov

“It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.”
“I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do.”
“Real crying usually lasts two minutes or less, but may continue for five. After that point, the child is merely complaining... I would require him to stop the protest crying, usually by offering him a little more of whatever caused the original tears.”
“All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.”
“The word of the day is legs. Let's go back to my place and spread the word.”
“America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.”
“I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.”
“Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.”

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