"With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out."

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Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.309

Robert Pollok

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“I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.”
“One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?”

Source : Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.245, Courier Corporation
“I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.”
“Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.”
“The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.”

Source : "Peter Higgs' Big Day". Interview with Jessica Griggs, www.slate.com. July 29, 2012.
“I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.”
“I left the jutra to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when I saw it. A tiny silver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon. I stared at the amber band of sunlight, smiling. The sun had returned. I closed my eyes. I felt Andrius moving close. "I'll see you," he said. "Yes, I will see you," I whispered "I will." I reached into my pocket and squeezed the stone.”
“Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider not only immoral, but filthy. The reason public men rarely say aloud what most say privately is they are fearful of being branded 'bigots' by an intolerant liberal orthodoxy that holds, against all evidence and experience, that homosexuality is a normal, healthy lifestyle.”

Source : "Tell MSNBC that Pat Buchanan Is a Bigot" by Menachem Rosensaft, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2010.

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