"Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under certain conditions, controlling the inferior order known to us as the ordinary laws of nature."

-- Charles Babbage

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“A study conducted by the State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School suggested that in times of stress a dog is likely to be more help in calming you down than a spouse or partner. Most dog owners can guess the reason why: dogs never judge us and never compete with us.”

Source : Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone
“But not all of them are decorated to the same level of taste.”
“In the end, it’s all a question of balance.”

Source : Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage
“A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.”
“When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.”
“From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born.”

Source : Interview with Angela Page, "Folk Plus", WJFF Radio, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.
“I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.”
“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals - the technique of the marketplace.”

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