"My family gave me the best in education."

-- William Standish Knowles

#My Family Quotes

“In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, Preface To The First Edition, 1977.
“Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia, the state capital, at the southern end of the sound.”
“I think, on a frame like mine, if I lose a few pounds, it makes a big difference. I hated every bit of attention on my weight and size. Even now, I can't put into words what exactly happened.”
“You should be careful, tossing descriptors like that around in a situation like this. My â€˜problemâ€™ isnâ€™t little. Unless youâ€™re drawing some pretty wild comparisons. Please tell me youâ€™re not drawing wild comparisons. Or blood-relative comparisons.”
“Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.”
“Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.”
“I aint trippen never slicking or slacking on my pimping”
“It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.”

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