"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Birthday Quotes #Lying Quotes #History Quotes

“A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.”
“If I go before I'm old, Oh brother of mine please don't forget me if I go. Bartender please, fill my glass for me? With the wine you gave Jesus that set him free, after three days in the ground.”
“About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?”
“When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.”
“When we don't preach the LORD, we preach the Devil, and when we preach worldliness, we preach the Devil”
“I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.”

Source : Otto Hahn (1970). “My life: the autobiography of a scientist”, MacDonald
“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.”
“Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.”

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