"Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done."

-- Cole Porter

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“We have had many wars with other countries and when a prisoner comes back they get many benefits, they get a house, they get a salary and I want the Iraqi government to do this for the Yazidi women so that they can have the social status that would allow a good future, a good family and a good status in society.”
“We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.”
“As if a woman of education bought things because she wanted 'em.”

Source : Sir John Vanbrugh (1989). “Four comedies”, Penguin Books
“You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.”
“A dream is the meeting of minds; an event in our waking consciousness is the coming together of sensible substances. Hence our feelings by day and our dreams by night are the meetings of mind with mind and of substance with substance.”
“I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.”
“If atheism is a religion, then off is a TV channel and bald is a hair colour.”
“Natural history is not equivalent to biology. Biology is the study of life. Natural history is the study of animals and plants-of organisms. Biology thus includes natural history, and much else besides.”

Source : Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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