"The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation, play hardly any role in grading. Were it the case, Russian would certainly be placed on the winnerâ€™s stand. It would rank first in plasticity."

-- KatÃ³ Lomb

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“Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sheila Walsh from Apr 15, 2013
“There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.”
“When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.”
“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”
“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.”
“One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.”
“If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.”

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