"In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake."

-- Clive James

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“The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.”

Source : Erwin Panofsky (1955). “Meaning in the visual arts: papers in and on art history”
“A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.”
“Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.”

Source : Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“I think the greatest threat to the privacy of Americans is the drone, and the use of the drone and the very few regulations that are on it today, and the booming industry of commercial drones.”

Source : "Director Mueller Told Senate Panel FBI Uses Drones". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. June 20, 2013.
“You look at the assistant coaches under [Pat Riley] that played and they have become prosperous within this game. It triples all the way down from the assistant players to the coaches. Patrick Ewing went into coaching as well as myself.”
“I'll usually wash my hair and let it air-dry wavy, but if I'm just in a hang-out mood, I won't even wash it. I'll wait until it smells.”
“Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.”

Source : Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.375, Chicago Review Press
“I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.”

Source : Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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