"If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.”
“We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.”
“Twitter? No, I'd rather use phone and texts.”
“English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.”
“People said, â€˜You must be mad, or on drugs,â€™ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume youâ€™re on drugs or mad, rather than free.”
“Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.”

Source : Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).
“Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.”
“Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.”

Source : William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1909). “Speeches of William Jennings Bryan”

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