"[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way."

-- Will Cuppy

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“Fear that makes faith may break faith.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.52
“I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.”
“I don't really consider myself an impressionist.”
“I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight”
“I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.”
“As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.”
“I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that every citizen has adequate and affordable housing, we launch a crusade to make universal health care. We need not soldiers anymore in the world. We've had enough of them in western history.”
“If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.”

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