"Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure."

-- John Buchanan Robinson

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“Tell me what ticks you off, and I will tell you what makes you tick.”

Source : Dr Lloyd John Ogilvie (1985). “Making Stress Work for You”, W Publishing Group
“The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.”
“Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil rights, the Democratic Party was the party of the old solid South. All of the racists, all of the Cottonhead Smith types and so on were Democrats, allies of Franklin Roosevelt - because of their seniority - of all the major committees of the Congress.”
“I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.”
“I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.”
“When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.”

Source : "Risk Taking Is in His Genes". Interview with Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2007.
“Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.”
“I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.”

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