"Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."

-- C. P. Scott

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“Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife”

Source : Joaquin Miller (1872). “Joaquin: Et Al”, p.49
“I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh â€“ difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.”
“I think thats what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.”
“It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.”
“I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.”
“The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.”

Source : Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates
“All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together.”

Source : George Sarton (1993). “Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.”, p.10, Courier Corporation
“Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency. But all that spending was worth it because just look at the great results! So what exactly is the argument that Obama isn't a hugely incompetent failure? So far it's 'Look! Over there! A war on women!'”

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