"The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Order Quotes #Long Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.”

Source : "Civilization Envy" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. September 28, 2001.
“He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.”
“I love fashion! I love clothes!”
“Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.”
“The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.”
“If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath.”
“I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.”
“I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.”

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