"Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde."

-- Robert Recorde

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“Idleness is paralysis.”
“The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports.”
“My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.”
“The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!”
“When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.”

Source : "Lisa Rinna Bares It All". Parade Magazine Interview, parade.com. January 27, 2009.
“There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.”
“It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.”
“Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.”

Source : "Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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