"Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark."

-- Joseph Joubert

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“You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact.”

Source : "ABC Paints Obama as Victim, Stephanopoulos Echoes Emanuel on Greatest Success". www.newsbusters.org. April 29, 2009.
“None of my friends smoke. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.”
“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.”

Source : Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher
“The worst old age is that of the mind.”

Source : William Hazlitt (1934). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”
“You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.”
“A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.”
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
“Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?”

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