"A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say."

-- Jenny Offill

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“By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.”
“Cordings make the best Covert coats, corduroys, moleskins and all the accoutrements. When I need a covert coat I get it from Cordings rather than make one myself and I'm a tailor so I should know! Cordings is without doubt, the best at what they do; they produce a quality which surpasses any other company of its kind in Britain.”
“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”

Source : "Fictional character: Captain Spock". "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country", www.imdb.com. 1991.
“We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.”
“Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.”
“Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mÃ¢chÃ©. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they'd been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair.”
“Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want,”
“All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.”

Source : 1857 On finally achieving his country's highest political office at the age of 65.

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