"England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example."

-- Robert Benchley

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“The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.”
“Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.”

Source : Max Lerner (1992). “Ideas for the Ice Age: Studies in a Revolutionary Era”, p.96, Transaction Publishers
“Learn always but never appear to be learning.”

Source : Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Ultimatum: Jason Bourne Book #3”, p.677, Bantam
“The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.”
“What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.”

Source : Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.308, Simon and Schuster
“We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.”
“It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive for commissions like this to spread hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their mind on public issues. Americans dare not be free citizens! This is the destruction of democracy.”
“Proper preparation prevents poor performance.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 21, 2013

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