"She turned me into a newt. ... But I got better..."

-- Graham Chapman

“We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.”
“But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.”
“It's true I don't know that much about Ligue 1, but Ligue 1 knows who I am.”
“Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming 'skeptics' or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.”
“Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.”
“...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.”
“If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.”
“I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administration which are, unfortunately, a continuation of the disastrous trade policies of previous administrations.”

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