"To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

-- George Berkeley

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“Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.”
“The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.”
“The only reason I am a star is because of my repression. Nothing else would have driven me through all that if I was 'normal'.”
“Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.”
“I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.”
“When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day”
“Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.”
“Eleven against eleven they never beat us.”

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