"The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins."

-- Barry S. Strauss

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“My final conclusion after 40 years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organization and the unofficial policy of the Save the Children's Fund and almost all those organizations is one of murder and genocide. They want to make it appear as if they are saving these kids, but in actual fact they don't”
“Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong”
“Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned.”
“I have always admired the way women put outfits together.”
“Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.”

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“Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?”
“I knew that I wanted to live in a city, but had never really been to New York. But I was begging my parents as a kid to move to New York, so it was just something that I sort of knew from a young age.”

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“When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.”

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