"I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted."

-- W. C. Fields

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“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.”
“To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.”
“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.”

Source : Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1868-April 1869”, p.471, Univ. of Tennessee Press
“In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.”
“Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.”
“Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction we will ever know. How terrible for children who are being brought up without that capacity.”
“I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist Iâ€™m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what Iâ€™m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work Iâ€™ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I donâ€™t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.”
“I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.”

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