"All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all."

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John Milton

“Our true nationality is mankind.”

Source : H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.644, Barnes & Noble Publishing
“Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'”
“The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.”

Source : "Dirty truths". Book by Michael Parenti, 1996.
“I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.”
“Thereâ€™s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will”
“Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon.”
“Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.”

Source : Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.3, Springer Science & Business Media
“TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.”

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