"I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog."

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“No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.”
“If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.”
“As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category.”

Source : "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.
“The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.”
“Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.”
“As a golfer, you feel like you're perpetually on the rack [in foursomes]. Mentally, it's very difficult.”
“The name 'cherubim' means 'fullness of knowledge' or 'outpouring of wisdom'... The name cherubim signifies the power to know and to see God, to receive the greatest gifts of His light, to contemplate the divine splendor in primordial power, to be filled with the gifts that bring wisdom and to share these generously with subordinates as a part of the beneficent outpouring of His wisdom.”
“This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines of applied science would doubtless have led to improvement and development of the older methods-the research in pure science has given us an entirely new and much more powerful method. In fact, research in applied science leads to reforms, research in pure science leads to revolutions, and revolutions, whether political or industrial, are exceedingly profitable things if you are on the winning side.”

Source : Attributed in "The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson" by Lord Rayleigh, (p. 199), 1943.

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