"You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?"

-- Tom Stoppard

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“If we take the worldâ€™s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.”
“The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.”
“Women are women, and hurray for that.”
“Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.”
“The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.”

Source : "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 7, 2010.
“I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.”
“The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.”
“You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.”

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