"Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner."

-- Lord Chesterfield

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“Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.”
“A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.”

Source : Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.67, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'”
“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.”
“I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.”
“An infatuated man is not only foolish, but wild.”
“If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.”
“But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairyâ€™s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.”

Source : Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black

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