"John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'."

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Source : 'The Every-Day Book' (1826-27) vol. 2, pt. 1, col. 820

“I believe rules are meant to be broken.”
“Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.”
“Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.”
“. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .”
“What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.”
“There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred.”
“Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.”
“Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high”

Source : Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.237, Penguin

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