"In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."

-- George Eliot

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“In a sense, comic books are frozen movies. If you look at a comic book, you are generally seeing the storyboard for a film. The great advantage of comic books, over the years, has been that, if they are frozen movies, they are not limited by budget. They are only limited by imagination.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.”
“Coin matching and finger flashing were among the first formal games to arise in the history of gambling. The class of Morra games extends back to the pre-Christian era, although not until comparatively recent times have game-theoretic solutions been derived.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.
“Lakers just been taking care of business for a long time now. It's easy to love them.”
“The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.”
“I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.”
“There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge.”
“America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.176, Macmillan

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