"The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'"

-- Rod Laver

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“For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.”
“Can it be entirely accidental that the most famous fictional spy of them all, James Bond, Number 007, deadly marksman, intriguer, the ultimate man behind the curtain, sexual athlete and ruthless patriot, is also a Scot, as was the author, whose wish-fulfilment he was?”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.132, Yale University Press
“Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.”
“I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.”
“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”
“If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”

Source : Song: Can I Get an Amen, Album: Born Naked
“America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.”

Source : James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg (1991). “The great reckoning: how the world will change in the depression of the 1990s”
“Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.”

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