"These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played."

-- Bob Cousy

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“In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.”

Source : Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House
“A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.”
“What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.”
“What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?”
“As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.”
“Ours is indeed a culture that tends to assign value to a woman based on her sex appeal rather than her character, and thatâ€™s something we must work to change.”
“The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.”
“The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth”

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