"Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake the dawning day."

-- Alexander Pope

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“Drama is promised to everyone no matter how humble you are.”
“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
“Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.”

Source : "It's Spreading" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 1, 2009.
“It was also, however, a favorite place for novices to stand and wait for innocent students to slip up by talking too loudly between classes. No novice has ever been created that could keep Gina quiet, however.”
“Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.”

Source : "Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place: Stories".
“The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.”
“No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.”
“One single great player doesn't make anything for a team; it has to be a team. I think [American] football is the greatest team sport there is because you have to depend on your brother next to you.”

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