"Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing."

-- Samuel Butler

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“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.”
“A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.”
“I'm one of those fellas who's got lots of regrets, but I don't regret having regrets.”

Source : "Lou Dobbs: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 11, 2010.
“I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries, honey becomes beer and the sky a curdled lemon. There's no caramel anymore.”
“Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a man asked my profession, I told him that I was a writer. He sipped his drink. "Half-hour or hour?" he inquired. There was a long silence. "Lifelong," I replied.”
“A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.”
“This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.”

Source : E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 40 (6 September 1651)
“Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.”

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