"Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome."

-- Michael Mandelbaum

#Football Quotes #Rome Quotes #People Quotes

“When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”
“Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.”
“Stubborn, snarly male.”

Source : Anne Bishop (2003). “The black jewels trilogy”, Roc
“My family are very supportive and always have been. They weren't the kind of parents that pushed me into it. I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.”

Source : Maurice George Kendall, Alan Stuart (1977). “The Advanced Theory of Statistics: Distribution theory”, Hafner Press
“I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.”
“God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.”
“Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.”

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