"In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion."

-- George Mikes

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“Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.”

Source : "The Ricky Gervais Show" podcast (Season 2, Episode 6), April 4, 2006.
“I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.”

Source : "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 4, 1987.
“More often than not, I'm worried about, where shouldn't we have music? Because the tendency is just to put everything everywhere all the time in a lot of movies. You end up just numbing the audience when you do that and it's not the best way to tell a story.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The surer of himself an admiral is, the finer the tactical development of his fleet, the better his captains, the more reluctant must he necessarily be to enter into a melee with equal forces, in which all these advantages will be thrown away, chance reign supreme, and his fleet be place on terms of equality with an assemblage of ships which have never before acted together.”

Source : Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.7, Fireship Press
“With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.”
“I am a rare species, not a stereotype.”
“It isn't. The Book of Abraham is not central to the restored gospel of Christ.”
“I'm going to a dance." With Becky?" No, with Alexander." Who's Alexander?" The love of my life!”

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