"War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible."

-- Jeannette Rankin

#War Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Scales Quotes

“Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'”

Source : "Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.
“Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.”

Source : Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.
“I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out.”
“Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
“It must be the body. It's chiseled out of marshmallows.”
“For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.”
“reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.”
“The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”

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