"I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

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“A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.”

Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1943). “Spain”
“The level of dependence on government among rural populations is actually extraordinary. They suffer even more when that assistance is taken away because they don't have access to the economic dynamism of cities. So if there are ways to tell stories that help people in rural areas see their kind of mutual need for care, that to me is the kind of thing that I want HuffPost to try and do.”
“I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.”

Source : Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 22, 2012.
“For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.”

Source : Robert B. Parker (2009). “Early Autumn”, p.4, Dell
“There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.”
“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.”

Source : Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, Sankhya 4, 14-17, 1938.
“I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?”
“If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.”

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