"You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things."

-- William Shawcross

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“To be on Coast to Coast, you have to be willing to stay awake in the middle of the night. But in return you get a great audience of millions of listeners all across the nation.”
“I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.”
“Beware of getting too comfortable! When we are comfortable, itâ€™s easy to forget other people.”
“Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.”
“There is no time like the pleasant.”

Source : "The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom". Book by Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant and Addison Mizner, 1905.
“The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them.”

Source : Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”
“As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.”
“Take me shoppin in France and he pay in advance.”

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