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“When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.”
“Charm is an elusive quality. Some have it; no teacher can afford to be without it. Teachers who lack charm must resort to violence.How much more dignified to retire from the world rather than wait ...”
“No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.”
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?”
“The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]”
“Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with ...”
“Excerpt from Magel's Daughter:"I think we're all like the lutefisk, steeped in poison, and then we try to clean it up for Christmas.”
“You are either on Wall Street or you’re a bum and there’s nothing in between.”
“Pay attention,” Gareth said to Moxie. “If it comes down to a choice of gettin’ captured or killed by Saxons or brigands, dead is less bad,”
“Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.”
“It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.”
“During the Cold War of the 1950s, American spies were issued eyeglasses with thick, clunky frames. If captured, they were trained to casually chew the curved earpieces, where fatal doses of cyanide...”
“Here’s a 165-year old but still fitting comment on public officials who are so sure they’re right that they’ll drive over a cliff rather than compromise: “Always to be right, always to trample forw...”
