"If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song."

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Source : "The words and comedy of Sid Caesar" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2014.

Sid Caesar

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“The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.”
“I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.”
“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
“Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.”
“In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.”
“Do I look like the Green River Killer?”

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