"If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?"

-- Calvin Trillin

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“Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?”
“Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.”
“A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.”
“As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!”
“Proof by analogy is fraud.”

Source : Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional
“What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does belong to him.”
“I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you.”

Source : "Brewer's Famous Quotations" by Nigel Rees, London: Cassell, (p. x), 1994.
“Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.”

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