"What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?"

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Source : "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Two Heads are Better than One", 1846.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

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“Human beings are psychologically far more afraid of bugs than they are of driving a car, whereas people get killed by cars every single day, and there is hardly ever a story of people getting killed by bugs.”

Source : "Executive Producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman Interview FRINGE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2011.
“The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.”
“I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.”
“The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.”
“Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.”
“None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.”
“What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.”
“The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.”

Source : 1972 Interview in The Paris Review, winter issue.

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