Source : Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.90
“I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.”
“In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.”
Source : Speech at the Louis Marshall Award Dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Americana Hotel, New York City, November 11, 1962.
“There's no escape. I'm God's only man.”
Source : "Fictional character: Travis Bickle". "Taxi Driver", www.imdb.com. 1976. 
“Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.”
Source : "Quantum Measurements and Chaos". Book by E. R. Pike and S. Sarkar, eds., pp. 183-193, 1987.
“Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.”
Source : "Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary".
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