"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."

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Source : Richard Cobden (1864). “Mr. Cobden and "The Times": Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. Delane, Editor of "The Times" ; with a Supplementary Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, and the Editor of the "Daily Telegraph".”, p.10

Richard Cobden

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“Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head fondly before continuing down the aisle. She didn't seem to care that he was fifteen, which was all right, because he didn't, either. Both Ronan and Declan observed this interaction with the pleased expressions of parents watching their prodigy at work.”
“The green things of this world are just wondrous, arenâ€™t they?â€ his mother went on. â€œWe work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes theyâ€™re the very thing that saves us.”
“The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.”
“Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.”
“There's a wonderful author named Can Themba, who said that Africa extends a fraternal handshake to Shakespeare. That William Shakespeare would have recognized Elizabethan England more readily in Africa today than in England today.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom.”
“My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.”

Source : "A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems". Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1977.
“The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.”

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