“all men naturally love freedom and hate servitude…”
Julius Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul
“When good economists die, they come back as physicists. When bad economists die, they come back as sociologists. It is an old joke, but class envy is no stranger to academics: Everyone wants to go up-market in the rigour wars.”
Paul Kedrosky in National Review May 5, 2001
“I’m covered with loser dust.”
Courtney Love, quoted in Ottawa Sun April 16, 2004
“Not then having learned the philosophy of yielding to disproportionate obstacles...”
Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail
“No God, No Hope - Know God, Know Hope.”
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“They seem to have opened it up a gear in the second period.”
Announcer on ESPN March 15, 1987 re the Edmonton Oilers.
“I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do.”
G.K. Chesterton in a letter to his fiancée, in which he confesses to being covered in ink after a day’s work, quoted by David W. Fagerberg in First Things March 2000
“Even my own fears that Mr. Deeds would be too provincially American – too ‘apple pie’ – proved unfounded. ‘O-filling,’ ‘doodling,’ and ‘pixilated’ were as rib-tickling in Ulan Bator as they were in Allentown, Pa. Evidently what rings true in one heart will toll the same bell all over the world.”
Frank Capra The Name Above the Title