"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."

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Source : Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

Robert Benchley

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“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”

Source : "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Book by Alan Turing, 1950.
“I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Suddenly, the world I had scrutinised for so long was all around me, as if I had leaned forward and climbed into the television like Alice through the looking-glass. I had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go.”
“I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.”
“Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what theyâ€™ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.”

Source : Greg Mortenson (2008). “Three Cups Of Tea”, p.329, Penguin UK
“The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.”
“It means everything for me to serve as the CEO of a convention.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.”

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