"All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere"

-- Cyril Clarke

#Wall Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.”
“By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take one's cat to the vet would have seemed like the epitome of materialism in another time, but now provide the only means available for two-career couples to work hard enough at their jobs to earn the salaries they need to pay for those labor-saving amenities.”
“Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.”
“In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.”
“Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.”
“I didnâ€™t want to see it. I didnâ€™t think heâ€™d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didnâ€™t.”
“I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.”
“April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”

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