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• If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.

  Terry Crisp

  Divorce, Support, Goalies

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• Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

  Walter Benjamin

  Truth, Writing, Self

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.72, Harvard University Press

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• I have recently observed and stated that the serum of normal people is capable of clumping the red cells of other healthy individuals... As commonly expressed, it can be said that in these cases at least two different kinds of agglutinins exist, one kind in A, the other in B, both together in C. The cells are naturally insensitive to the agglutinins in their own serum.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Two, Cells, Blood

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• The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained by induction, as we usually say. Yet we have seen cases in which mere induction led to error. Therefore, we should take great care not to accept as true such properties of the numbers which we have discovered by observation and which are supported by induction alone. Indeed, we should use such a discovery as an opportunity to investigate more exactly the properties discovered and to prove or disprove them; in both cases we may learn something useful.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Math, Opportunity

  Opera Omnia, Series 1, Volume 2, 1913.

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• ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Math, Squares

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1386, Library of America

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• Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Lying, Deceit, Would Be

  Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”

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• If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

  Richard Ingrams

  Lawyer, Settling, Should

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• Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

  Mary Wesley

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Play

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• When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

  David Guterson

  Falling In Love, Book, Writing

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• The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

  Angelina Grimke

  White, Silence, Despair

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.116, Penguin

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• In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

  Douglass North

  Editors, Wife, Married

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• It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Christian, Brother, Years

  Ronald J. Sider (2015). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Gentleman, Chairs

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• Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

  Jock Sturges

  Beautiful, Artist, Thinking

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

  Jock Sturges

  Mother, Children, Pregnancy

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

  Josef Albers

  Exercise, Color, Different

  Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press

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• Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

  George Ayittey

  Leaving, Vapid, Naked

  "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that these views rest on false assumptions and unreal, artificial schemes of historical development. This is a real contribution and not to be minimized.'

  Millar Burrows

  Real, Yale, Views

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• There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

  Jim Leach

  Optimism, Littles, Pessimism

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• It's still the same old story,
  A fight for love and glory,
  A case of do or die!
  The world will always welcome lovers
  As time goes by.

  Herman Hupfeld

  Fighting, Stories, World

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• A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

  Jan Struther

  Couple, Successful, Trying

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• In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Cognition, Movement, Boundaries

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• The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

  Harold H. Greene

  Thinking, Umpires, Justice

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• Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!

  Eddie Condon

  Jazz, Said, Clarinet

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• If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  People, Expectations, Good Things

  Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.28, Augsburg Books

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