"Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework."

-- Francoise Sagan

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“We suppose that could be considered a hedged position for the awards committee, one that would never occur in the hard sciences such as physics and chemistry, where a prize shared among three with divergent views would be an embarrassing mistake or a bad joke. While a Nobel Prize might well be the culmination of a lifeâ€™s work, shouldnâ€™t the work accurately describe the real world?”
“I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, "WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???”
“It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ...”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2376, Delphi Classics
“The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court.”
“You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).”

Source : Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, p.49, Bantam
“Learning by example is valid, but when you have the information to know that turning in a certain direction can lead you to a very wrong place, most of the "blame" is on the individual.”
“All things do help the unhappy man to fall.”

Source : John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.82
“We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.”

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